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Part One: Future Search

Based on submitted abstracts, ten authors – a mix of academics and practitioners with different areas of expertise (e.g., management, bureaucratic politics, law, public finance, public participation) - will be chosen to write original essays envisioning public administration in 2020. Authors will come from the public (local, state, and federal), nonprofit, and academic worlds. Your instructions: You are not inhibited by cost or difficulty. Imagine and describe the field of public administration in the year 2020. What you envision must be desirable, feasible, and motivating (you want to make it happen). What do you see? What do we need to make this happen? What are the barriers to making this happen?

Examples of important questions include, but are not limited to:

How can we keep and attract the best and brightest in our public service at all levels?
Who are we? What does it mean to be a citizen of the 21st century? What are citizen’s rights and responsibilities in the modern administrative state?
As contracting out continues to grow throughout all levels of U.S. government, how can 3rd party government be held to public standards of accountability?
How can government obtain and use better science, information technology, and policy information in the years ahead?
What should be the role of the military after Iraq? How can defense policy be managed and held accountable to civil control?
What is the most appropriate route to repair and upgrade U.S. infrastructure needs?
What is the best way to administer foreign aid and development?
Can we fix fiscal/monetary policy making?
How can federal regulatory management keep up with innovations in the market place?
Under what conditions does collaborative public management work best? Should public organizations be encouraged to collaborate more?
How can we make public administration and management research more helpful and relevant to practitioners?
Is data destiny? Should it be?
Other?

Part Two: How Do We Get There?

Based on submitted abstracts, ten additional articles will be selected for this section which will feature original research with serious well reasoned commentary on the utility and further potential of strategic planning/strategic management approaches in government around the world. Articles will move beyond visions for the future and talk about the strengths, limitations, and future potential of our strategic planning/management systems in strengthening and improving governance.

For example, we have seen the evolution in strategic planning/management systems at the federal level from the Government Performance and Results Act to the Program Assessment Rating Tool. We have seen increases in agencies developing strategic plans and linking them to performance measurement, management, and monitoring systems. We’ve seen further development and implementation of strategic planning and performance systems being integrated and linked to resource allocation, budgeting, and institutional accountability systems. There is a proliferation of frameworks and models from conventional planning processes such as Bryson’s Ten-Step Strategy Change Cycle to increasingly using a Balanced Scorecard Approach as a complement, not a substitute, to traditional processes. There are other manifestations of these integrated systems and processes including the incorporation of quality management systems such as Lean Six Sigma, citizen involvement processes as part of both the SWOT analysis of strategic planning, to engagement at different levels (both within organizations and communities) of citizens in the development of performance measurement and monitoring systems. One can look at agencies and municipalities that use extensive performance information as part of their “STAT” (e.g., CompStat, CitiState) systems to make government more transparent and accountable.

For government and nonprofit organizations, strategic planning/ management systems are opportunities to think and act strategically, educate, and build ownership within their organizations and with myriad stakeholders for the purpose of improving performance, better serving the public, and planning for the future. There has been a lack of systematic thinking, however, analyzing the degree to which government and governance have changed, or might change in the future, as a result of these institutionalized systems, processes, and tools. Are these tools the right tools for government to integrate and use in the work of governance? What modifications need to be made to these tools, the organizations in which they are used, or education and training that public personnel and network actors receive in order to achieve the myriad goals of government programs, such as effectiveness, efficiency, etc.? Are there new tools that facilitate strategic thinking and action but which government and/or other sectors have yet to adopt?

Please email a two page abstract of your article idea for either Part One or Part Two to Rosemary O’Leary (roleary@maxwell.syr.ed) AND David Van Slyke (vanslyke@maxwell.syr.edu) at by March 1, 2009.

From the abstracts, authors will be invited to submit full length articles due by October 5, 2009. All articles will be blind peer reviewed by three referees. The peer review process will determine needed article revisions as well as the final selection of articles for the special issue.

This special issue of PAR is funded by Maxwell alumnus Howard Phanstiel through the Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership. Questions? Please contact Rosemary or David.

A Canadian Public Policy and Governance Portal: Heads Up
The University of Toronto’s new School of Public Policy and Governance, in conjunction with the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA) and IPAC is developing a portal which will bring together in one place online resources for public administration and public policy practitioners, academics, and students. The project is funded by the Canada School of Public Service and is attracting the interest of federal, provincial and municipal officials, as well as faculty and many of our schools of public administration and public policy as a “Web 2.0 pilot” for governments and universities to test how best to incorporate the kinds of interactive features now provided by Wikipedia and Facebook. There will be more developments in this project rolling out soon, including a prototype of the portal site. If you are interested in getting involved, get in touch with Ian Clark at id.clark@utoronto.ca.

Principal Investigators and Advisory Committees Chosen for CAPPA Studies
After consultation with the Board of Directors and membership, CAPPA has chosen the following principal investigators and advisory committees:

Review of Master’s Level Program Curriculum: Principal Investigator: Les Pal, Carleton; Advisory Committee: Bruce Doern, Carleton; Iain Gow, University de Montreal; Vic Pakalnis, Ministry of Labour, Government of Ontario; Cynthia Whitaker, Executive Director, Literacy BC

The Market for Master’s Students in Public Administration: PI: Saul Schwartz, Carleton; Committee: Lynda Gagne, Victoria; Fazley Siddiq, Dalhousie; Arthur Sweetman, Queen’s

The State of Public Administration at the Undergraduate Level: PI: Lorna Stefanick, Athabasca; Committee: Daniel Cohn, York; Maurice Couture, UQAM; Tim Heinmiller, Brock

The State of Public Administration Programs at the College Level: PI: Ted Glenn, Humber; Committee: Keith Brownsey, Mount Royal; Miriam Carey, Mount Royal; Peter Constantinou, Seneca; Sophie Skaith, Fanshawe

The Market for Doctoral Students in Public Administration in Canada and Feasibility of a Network Ph.D. in Public Administration: PI: Joan Grace, Winnipeg; Committee: Jacques Bourgault, ENAP; Carloyn Johns, Ryerson; Susan Phillips, Carleton; Ken Rasmussen, Regina; Mark Sproule-Jones, McMaster

Opportunities for Faculty Participation in International Public Administration Development Projects: PI: Andrew Graham, Queen’s; Committee: Martine Durier-Copp, Dalhousie; Edward Jackson, Carleton; Ian Macdonald, York; Nancy Olewiler, Simon Fraser, Denis Proulx, ENAP

The studies are to be completed in spring 2008 and discussed thereafter. Financial support from the Canada School of Public Service is gratefully acknowledged.

New Appointment – CAPPA Accreditation Board
The CAPPA Board of Directors, unanimously and enthusiastically, has appointed Lucie Rouillard, Professor of Public Administration at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration Publique in Quebec City, to a three year term on the CAPPA Accreditation Board, commencing at our forthcoming AGM in August 2007. Professor Rouillard replaces Iain Gow, Professor emeritus of political science at l’Universite de Montreal. We are most appreciative of Professor Gow’s work during the Accreditation Board’s initial year and look forward to Professor Rouillard’s contributions.

Canada School of Public Service Contribution for 2007-08 and 2008-09 Fiscal Years
The Canada School of Public Service has agreed to contribute $68,000 to CAPPA over the 2007-08 and 2008-09 fiscal years. The contribution will support studies of employment prospects for master’s students, master’s level curriculum, colleges and universities programs and curriculums, a national network Ph.D. program, and faculty involvement in international public administration development projects. It will also provide support for the President of CAPPA. CAPPA is most appreciative of the Canada School’s ongoing support, and we thank Michael Keenan, Geoff Dinsdale, and Joanne Dorey for their helpful handling of this file.

David Zussman chosen President-elect
On the enthusiastic recommendation of the CAPPA Board of Directors, CAPPA member programs have unanimously chosen Professor David Zussman President-elect of CAPPA. Professor Zussman will take office at CAPPA’s next AGM in August 2007 for a two year term.

Professor Zussman has distinguished and unique accomplishments as both an academic and practitioner. He holds the Stephen Jarislowsky Chair for Public Sector Management and was Dean of the School of Management at the University of Ottawa from 1988 to 1992. He was the co-author of The Vertical Solitude: Managing in the Public Service. He led Jean Chretien’s transition team in 1993, served as assistant secretary to cabinet for the program review in 1994-95, was President of the Public Policy Forum from 1996 to 2003, and is a Commissioner of the Public Service Commission of Canada. He will bring to CAPPA great administrative skill; tremendous experience, particularly with the federal public service; and real dedication to advancing public administration education and research.

CAPPA Accreditation Board Chosen
The CAPPA Board of Directors has chosen a five-person accreditation board of four academics and one practitioner. The academics are Iain Gow, Professor emeritus of political science, Université de Montréal; Leslie Pal, Professor of public administration and former director of the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University; Mark Sproule-Jones, V.K. Copps Professor of political science, McMaster University; and Allan Tupper, Professor of political science and associate vice-president for government relations at the University of British Columbia, and former editor of Canadian Public Administration. The practitioner is Janice Cochrane, former president of the Canada School of Public Service and deputy minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Public Works and Government Services Canada. Professor Pal has agreed to serve as chair of the board. This is a most distinguished group of individuals and CAPPA will benefit from the collective wisdom in launching the accreditation process. The member programs of CAPPA ratified the principles for accreditation implementation in an online vote in March 2006.

Launch of 2007 National Student and Thought Leadership Awards in Public Administration
CAPPA, together with the Institute of Public Administration of Canada and the Canadian Association for Students of Politics, Policy and Public Administration, is launching the 2007 national student and thought leadership awards. The national student awards encourage CAPPA member programs to host their own student awards and submit the winners to CAPPA by June 15, 2007. Winners will make poster presentations at the IPAC national conference in Winnipeg in August, and the three best presentations will be awarded the thought leadership awards [details (Word document)].

2006 winners
2005 winners

News about CAPPA Members

Universities getting ready for post-boomer PS job rush
"Four Ontario universities—the University of Ottawa, Ryerson, York and the University of Toronto—are the latest in the rush to create new public management or public policy programs and tap into the thousands of jobs that will open up at all levels of government over the next decade," says a November 6, 2006, article in the Ottawa Citizen. [read full article]

“The public service is facing an extreme shortage of executives in the next six years, with 41 per cent expected to retire by 2012, according to the Public Service Commission. As the baby boomers leave en masse, the door is opening wide for students in public policy and public administration programs, writes Shannon Klie in the Canadian HR Reporter on December 4, 2006. [read full article].

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Carleton University School of Public Policy and Administration
Carleton ranks Number 1 among Canadian Policy Schools in Sustainable Development. In 2008, Corporate Knights Magazine for Responsible Business produced the first ever ranking of how graduate programs in public policy integrate sustainability into their programs and student experience. Carleton’s School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) ranked Number 1 by a considerable margin (http://static.corporateknights.ca/KnightSchools2008.pdf). A focus on sustainability is not new for Carleton as SPPA started a concentration in Innovation, Science and Environment in the Masters Program more than a decade ago. Professors James Meadowcroft, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Governance, Glen Toner, Stephan Schott and Christopher Stoney are major contributors to this concentration. The School produces an annual review, Innovation, Science and Environment, related to sustainable development policy and is a leader in the very active SIGNALS network http://www.carleton.ca/spa/SIGNALS ) which brings together students, alumni and policy makers with an interest in sustainability.

A Conference in Honour of Professor G. Bruce Doern: Professor Doern is retiring from Carleton University after an outstanding career as one of Canada's leading public policy scholars. During his tenure as Director from 1971-1981, he was instrumental in building the School as a national institution. To celebrate this special occasion, friends and colleagues from across Canada have organized a conference, an alumni reception and a celebration dinnerin his honour on November 7, 2008. Our goals are not only to celebrate Bruce’s achievements but to raise substantial funds for a scholarship in his name. We welcome you to attend, see http://www.carleton.ca/sppa/doern.html for more information.

In July 2008, Professor Gene Swimmer also officially ‘retired’ from the School although he remains an active contributor as a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, a beloved teacher of statistics, and Supervisor of the Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation.

New Appointment: In July 2008, Dr. Jose Galdo joined the School in a tenure track position. Dr. Galdo holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University and recently completed a post-doc at McMaster University. He brings expertise in labor economics, microeconometrics and program evaluation. His current research focuses on the impact evaluation of government policies using microdata.

Carleton’s new executive Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation is starting its second year and is already almost at full capacity with 25 students. The Diploma, delivered in an executive format, is intended to provide students with advanced skills in both the methodology and management of evaluation. The strong enrolment reflects the increasing demand for performance assessment in the public, private and nonprofit sectors and the planned professional designation of evaluators by the Canadian Evaluation Society. SPPA is participating in a consortium on graduate education in evaluation with several other Canadian universities, the Treasury Board Secretariat, and the Canadian Evaluation Society. The secretariat for the consortium is housed at the University of Victoria under the leadership of Jim McDavid.

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Dalhousie University, School of Public Administration
Canada's top civil servant, Kevin Lynch, Clerk of the Privy Council Office and Secretary to the Cabinet unveiled the government's strategy for renewing the public service at a lecture delivered at Dalhousie University on September 15, 2006. Speaking at the invitation of Dalhousie's School of Public Administration in front of an audience of 350 members of the university community and representatives from all three levels of government, Mr. Lynch described the challenges of an aging workforce facing the federal bureaucracy and the difficulty of attracting the best and brightest to work for government. Competition for the same pool of highly educated knowledge workers across all sectors of the economy was growing. He said that in addition to the mandate of the government's own Canada School of Public Service in developing the professional skills and management abilities of public servants, universities had a special role in teaching public policy and public management at the graduate level. The Clerk also referred to the need for adopting best practices in recruiting newly-minted graduates from top universities as well as mid-career professionals to the government. He also referred to the importance of interchange programs in attracting talent to the government from universities and the private sector. During his day-long visit to Dalhousie University, Mr. Lynch also met with the Director of the School of Public Administration, Fazley Siddiq, the Dean of Management, David Wheeler, and separately with Dalhousie's President, Tom Traves, and Nova Scotia's top civil servant, Bob Fowler, to discuss matters of mutual interest. [transcript of lecture (PDF)]

Governance Beyond the Horizon: Leadership and Innovation in a Public Sector Environment
In collaboration with the Nova Scotia Regional Chapter of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC), Dalhousie's School of Public Administration hosted a one-day forum entitled Governance Beyond the Horizon: Leadership and Innovation in a Changing Public Sector Environment on September 27, 2006 at the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel in Halifax. The forum was attended by over 150 participants from all three levels of government in addition to members of the Dalhousie community.

The speakers included among others Ruth Dantzer, President and CEO of the Canada School of Public Service, William Lahey, Deputy Minister of the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour, Monique Boudrias, Executive Vice-President of the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada, Simon Coakeley, Deputy Commissioner of Correctional Services Canada (Atlantic Region), Margaret MacDonald, Assistant Deputy Minister of the Nova Scotia Treasury and Policy Board and Catherine Mullally, Director, Human Resources of the Halifax Regional Municipality. Dalhousie professors Peter Aucoin, Marguerite Cassin, Amanda Preece, David Stuewe and Keith Sullivan presented papers. Two MPA candidates, Hong Qui and Tom Woods also presented papers. The welcoming address was delivered
by Fazley Siddiq, Director of Dalhousie's School of Public Administration while the closing remarks were given by Norma MacIsaac, President of the Nova Scotia Regional Chapter of IPAC.

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University of Regina, Graduate School of Public Policy
On June 14th, the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina will officially change its name to Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy to honour Albert W. Johnson and Thomas K. Shoyama

Born in Saskatchewan, Albert W. Johnson enjoyed a stellar career in the public service of Saskatchewan for 19 years before going on to the public service of Canada, to the presidency of the CBC, to university teaching and research, and to the development of the South Africa/Canada Program on Governance. His book Dream No Little Dreams describes in detail the workings of the T.C. Douglas government. After his retirement in 1982, he was appointed professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and to short-term research chairs at Queens and at the Canadian Centre for Research and Development. During the 1990s, he oversaw a major governance program to assist in the establishment of a multi-racial democracy in South Africa.

During the Second World War, Thomas K. Shoyama served as editor—at one point from an internment camp in B.C.—of The New Canadian, a weekly civil rights newspaper. Later, he served in the Canadian Army Intelligence Corps and then joined the government of Saskatchewan, eventually becoming T.C. Douglas' closest policy advisor. In 1964 he moved to Ottawa to work with the new Economic Council of Canada and then the Department of Finance. His commitment to public service has been recognized through several national awards, including Officer of the Order of Canada (1978), the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Public Service of Canada (1978) and the Vanier Medal in Public Administration (1982).

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Ryerson University, Department of Politics and Public Administration
Ryerson Department of Politics and Public Administration Celebrates 45th Anniversary of Teaching Public Administration

On Friday October 26th, alumni, faculty (past and present) and representatives from governments, unions, the voluntary sector, polling firms, students and others gathered at Ryerson University to celebrate 45 years of teaching pubic administration there. A panel of speakers associated with the program started the event. Among the panelists were NDP leader and former Ryerson professor Jack Layton; distinguished multi-award winning scholar Paul Thomas from the University of Manitoba; Marg Rappolt, the Deputy Minister of Aboriginal Affairs from the Government of Ontario; Professor Emerita Gerda Kaegi and Professor Greg Inwood, both from Ryerson; Danny Bourne, alumnus and former Ryerson Gold Medal winner; and Tanya King Maracle, another alumna and Ryerson Gold Medal winner. Mr. Bourne is a firefighter who completed a BA and an MA as part of a unique Ryerson-Fire Services partnership; while Ms. Maracle is an Aboriginal who completed her BA as part of the Ryerson – First Nations Technical Institute partnership. The two graduates spoke about Ryerson's unique approach to connecting to the community in offering their programs.

Ryerson President Sheldon Levy next introduced the keynote speaker of the event, the Honourable David Crombie, who, of course, is a former Toronto mayor, federal cabinet minister, Chancellor of Ryerson, and many other titles. Mr. Crombie gave an inspirational and extremely funny speech, revealing among other things that he was first hired to teach sociology at Ryerson! He then went on to develop and teach a course on urban politics because some journalism and Radio Television Arts students asked him to, which provided the bridge to his mayoralty campaign and subsequent career in public administration at all three levels of government.

Finally, Dean Carla Cassidy announced the David Crombie Award for Students in Public Administration to commemorate the anniversary.

The event was sponsored by the Ryerson University Department of Politics and Public Administration; Faculty of Arts, Office of the Dean; Ontario Public Sector Employees Union; and Ryerson University Alumni Association. It was also supported by the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration; G.P. Murray Research Inc.; and Canadian Government Executive Magazine.

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York University, Glendon School of Public Affairs
The Glendon School of Public Affairs was established by York University in June of 2006 and builds on Glendon’s historical mission of preparing public leaders for Canada. An Advisory Committee has already been created, with Alex Himelfarb as chair, and including 25 leading Canadians. When fully developed, the School will include a bilingual Master’s degree, professional development programs, a research centre, and conference program.

A proposal for a Master’s in Public and International Affairs has been submitted to OCGS for approval, with an eye to a September 2007 start-up. The program will be distinguished by: its bilingualism, its attention to the social, culture and economic context of policy-making, its concern with the international dimension and its policy impact and its broad interdisciplinary structure.

Colloquium on official bilingualism, March 29 to 30, 2007. This event will mark the 40th anniversary of the Laurendeau-Dunton Commission’s first report on education. It will gather historians, political scientists, journalists and high level civil servants to assess the impacts, failures and successes of a policy that is central to the Canadian federation.

www.glendon.yorku.ca/studypublicaffairs

News from 2005-2006
News from 2004-2005

News from IPAC

Reminder of upcoming deadlines!!!

Please remember that extended deadlines for the Call for Adjudicated papers(2009) to be presented at the 61st Annual Conference, and calls for nominations for The Pierre De Celles Award for Teaching Excellence in Public Administration (2009) is this Friday May 15, 2009.

Call for Adjudicated papers - 61st Annual Conference
We welcome scholars, academics, practitioners and consultants working in public or para-public sectors to submit papers within the theme – “Turnarounds: Transformations in Government and Society.” The IPAC Research Committee will review submissions.

IPAC’s Pierre De Celles Award
for Teaching Excellence in Public Administration recognizes and encourages the best teachers in Canada. IPAC is calling for the nominations of excellent post-secondary teachers in the field of public administration.

Please see website for further details and application forms:
http://www.ipac.ca/Research_CallsForPapers
http://www.ipac.ca/Award_PierreDeCellesIPACTeachingAward

Paper/e-submissions, calls for nominations, and inquiries should be directed to:

Wendy A. Feldman, Director of Research
Institute of Public Administration of Canada
1075 Bay Street, Suite 401, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2B1
Telephone: (416)924-8787 ext: 228
Email: wfeldman@ipac.ca

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Follow-up: CSPS University Seminar 2008
During the University Seminar we provided a draft version of Dr. Mulgan’s Manion Lecture. I am pleased to inform you that the final version of his lecture is now available in both official languages on our Web site. In addition, we have created a discussion forum to keep the dialogue open between public service employees, academics, experts and Canadians on how to ensure that the federal public service has the capacity to bring innovative ideas to the table and meet future challenges facing the Government of Canada.

In addition, the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, is pleased to provide all those who attended the Seminar with the first annual report of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner.

Affiliation with the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA)
CAPPA is an international associate member of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). NASPAA represents 250 programs in the United States, conducts accreditation for its members, holds an annual conference, and publishes The Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE). For more information about NASPAA plese visit their Web site at www.naspaa.org.

Awards

Vanier Medal
Joseph Galimberti 2007 winner, devoted his life to the principles of excellence in public service and enhanced the theory and practice of public administration on four continents. He received posthumously the Vanier Medal from the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC).

Ralph Heintzman, the 2006 winner, retired in February as Vice-President (Public Service Values and Ethics) of the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada after a 30-year career in government and academia. He is credited with helping to move Canada into a position of world leadership in government service delivery.

The Vanier Medal is presented to a person who has shown distinctive leadership and accomplishment in Canadian public service.

Public Admin Scholars Win Third Consecutive Smiley Award
Congratulations to Greg Inwood, who was awarded the prestigious Donald Smiley Prize, for his book, Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission (University of Toronto Press, 2005) on 02 June 2006. The Donald Smiley Prize is awarded annually at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences by the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) for "the best book published in English or in French in a field relating to the study of government and politics in Canada." Al Johnson's Dream No Little Dreams: A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961 won the honours for 2005, and David Good won the 2004 award for his book The Politics of Public Management: The HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions.

Pierre de Celles Award
Professor Paul Brown of the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University is the winner of the 2006 Pierre de Celles award for excellence in teaching public administration. The citation recognized the quality of his teaching in undergraduate and MPA programs (including online), as well as his executive development teaching in Canada, eastern Europe and Cuba.

2006/2007 Donner Prize
This year's winner was Eric Helleiner for Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime. Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Governance in the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo. Visit the Donner Canadian Foundation Web site for details.

Innovative Management Award
The IPAC Award is sponsored by IBM and KPMG to celebrate and encourage innovative managerial initiatives in the public administration of Canada. The finalists make presentations at the IPAC Annual Conference and winners are declared at the final luncheon.

2007 Winners

Gold - Cancer Care Ontario - Provincial Wait Times Information System
Silver - Nunavut - Community Skills Information System
Bronze - British Columbia - LearnNow BC

Arthur Kroeger College Awards for Public Affairs
The Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs has awarded its fifth annual Arthur Kroeger College Awards for Public Affairs. The awards recognize Canadian individuals and organizations that have demonstrated creativity and innovation in making Canada a better place to live. For more information, please visit www.carleton.ca/akcollege/forum/index.html

2007 Award Winners
Arthur Kroeger College Award in Citizenship and Community Affairs
Jean Swanson, Carnegie Community Action Project

Arthur Kroeger College Award in Ethics in Public Affairs
The Honourable James K. Bartleman

Arthur Kroeger College Award in Management
B.C. Women's Hospital and Health Centre

Arthur Kroeger College Award in Policy Leadership
Campaign 2000

Arthur Kroeger College Award in Public Discourse
Cable Public Affairs Channel

Royal Society of Canada
Peter Aucoin, Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Dalhousie University, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canada’s oldest and most prestigious scholarly organization. His citation notes that “he has helped to interpret and shape the great changes that have occurred in public-sector management and the electoral regime. He is distinguished for the practice of his profession in service to government and has demonstrated intellectual leadership on subjects like Senate reform.”

New Ideas

The Market for Doctoral Students in Public Administration in Canada and Feasibility Study of Developing a National Network PhD in Public Administration

This study is one of several funded in part by the Canada School of Public Service investigating the current state and future prospects of programs in public administration. [more]

The Challenge Ahead

This report was also commissioned by CAPPA (with the support of the Canada School of Public Service) to update the Gow and Sutherland study with the inclusion of new programs created since 2004. In order to make the two studies as comparable as possible, we have accepted most but not all of Gow and Sutherland’s methodological choices. [more]

The State of Public Administration Programming in Canadian Universities

In 2007, the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA), with the support of the Canada School of Public Service, commissioned two studies on the state of undergraduate public administration education in Canada – one on programming offered by Canadian colleges and the other on programming offered by Canadian universities at the undergraduate level. Dr. Ted Glenn of Humber College was named Principal Investigator of the colleges project and Dr. Lorna Stefanick of Athabasca University was named Principal Investigator of the universities project. [more]

The State of Public Administration Education in Canadian Colleges

The Labour Market Experience of Recent Graduates

Under the rubric of “public service renewal”, the federal government is focusing considerable energy on the problem of replacing the many public servants who are close to retirement. [more]

TBS University Recruitment Campaign
This year’s Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) University Recruitment Campaign, Hit the Ground Running, which will be launched at universities across Canada on September 15, 2008. Again, TBS is aiming to recruit approximately 20 post-graduate students as analysts into diverse positions across the organization. We are targeting Masters and Ph.D. students in Economics, Policy/Public administration and Business administration who have or will graduate between April 2007 and December 2009.

Sandford Borins Sounds Off on Government in Blog
Sandford Borins, lead author of the book Digital State at the Leading Edge, Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto and past president of CAPPA, has launched a blog on www.sandfordborins.com that provides readers with insights into the public sector, offering "perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers." The blog appears every Thursday.

KPMG Commissioning Research Commentaries
KPMG is in the process of commissioning a series of Research Commentaries from academics world wide on the topic of Performance Management. Our objective is to invite approximately 15 commentaries as a means to inform and promote debate about performance management globally, disseminated through a KPMG-funded book. And while the book will not be peer-reviewed in the traditional sense, we will work with the authors to ensure an appropriate level of quality and relevance. [more]

Innovations in Government: Research, Recognition, and Replication: Sandford Borins, editor
The book discusses new research on innovation in government, explores the impact of several programs that recognize innovation, and considers challenges to the replication of innovation. The contributors include top international scholars studying innovation in government. The book was commissioned by the Kennedy School of Government to mark the twentieth anniversary of its program of awards to innovations in American government.

“Borins has assembled genuine experts’ insights about innovation at all levels of government, and in many different nations. For the thinkers, there are analyses of conceptual and research issues. For the doers, there are stimulating examples and ideas about the great good that government innovators can do, and how they get it done.” — Hal Rainey, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, University of Georgia

http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2008/innovationsingovernment.aspx

Prime Ministerial Leadership, the Public Service and Administrative Reform in Canada - Part 2 by Richard Phidd and O.P. Dwivedi
The authors present a detailed analysis of Prime Ministerial Leadership, the Public Service and Administrative Reform in Canada. They describe the history of the public service and administrative reform in Canada. [read article (PDF)]

The Politics of Public Money: Spenders, Guardians, Priority Setters, and Financial
Watchdogs inside the Canadian Government by David A. Good
"This is a superb book that is testimony to David A. Good’s status as one of Canada’s first-rate scholar-practitioners. It blends theory, empirical analysis, and sound insight with clarity and coherence. The Politics of Public Money is an essential text for anyone with a serious interest in governance and public management." — Peter Aucoin, Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Government and Political Science, and Professor of Public Administration, Dalhousie University

Canadian Public Sector Financial Management by Andrew Graham
“This is a magisterial book explaining the nuts and bolts of public sector financial management within a comprehensive framework of public policy. Graham displays a sophisticated understanding of how government actually works. Fads come and go and often at great cost to effective delivery but behind these fads is a set of basic financial skills that are essential to good government. This text covers them in a practical way that will prove useful to students of public management and to practitioners throughout Canada's public sector.” -Ian D. Clark, Past President, Council of Ontario Universities

For more information and course support material, go to http://post.queensu.ca/~grahama/

Other News of Interest

Call for Nominations for the 2009 Heintzman Award
To ICCS members,the call for Nominations for the 2009 Heintzman Award is now open. The deadline for submission of nominations is Tuesday, March 31, 2009. The nomination form and background information can be found on our homepage at www.iccs-isac.org. If you have any questions, please contact Linda Robins at linda.robins@iccs-isac.org.

The new edition of the PSC Library Newsletter
The new edition of the PSC Library Newsletter is available at : http://www.psc-cfp.gc.ca/lib-bib/news-bull/news-bull-eng.htm

The Council of the Federation Secretariat Youth Internship Program
The Council of the Federation Secretariat is now accepting applications from across Canada for its Youth Internship Program. Located in Ottawa, this paid internship begins in July 2008 and continues for a period of 12 months. Applicants must be aged 25 and under, have graduated from an undergraduate or graduate program at a recognized university, and be legally able to work in Canada. Applicants must demonstrate an interest in Canadian politics and federalism, and be able to communicate in English and French. The application deadline is May 22, 2008. For more information and an application form, visit www.councilofthefederation.ca www.councilofthefederation.ca.

Horizons: Special Issue: Hope or Heartbreak: Aboriginal Youth and Canada’s Future
Volume 10 Number 1
March 2008

This special issue of Horizons was a joint collaboration between the Government of Canada’s Policy Research Initiative and the Research and Analysis Directorate at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. This volume is part of one of the PRI's current interdepartmental projects, Investing in Youth: Evidence from Research, Policy and Practice. This special issue presents the latest research and analysis to highlight emerging trends, challenges and opportunities related to the rapidly growing population of Aboriginal youth within an aging and changing Canada. [link]

New Policy Research Initiative Web Site
The Policy Research Initiative (PRI) is pleased to introduce to you our new Web site. We encourage you to take a look around. Click here.

We have a variety of new research projects that may interest you:

For copies of PRI publications or for more information, please contact us by e-mail at questions@prs-srp.gc.ca or by phone at 613-947-1956 .

Peter Aucoin Named Member of the Order of Canada
On December 28, 2007, her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, announced 61 new appointments to the Order of Canada. Among them was Peter Aucoin, from Dalhousie University. [read more]

UPDATE April 3, 2008: Survey on the Market for Master’s Students in Public Administration
The survey is officially closed. We thank all those alumni and universities who participated in the survey for their time and results. The research findings will be available on the CAPPA Web site in both official languages shortly. Please visit this section of the CAPPA website for further updates regarding the survey. Thank you.

Ninth Annual dg.o International Conference
The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation.

The conference theme "Partnerships for Public Innovation" focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines:

Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.
Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges.

For more information, please visit http://www.dgo2008.org/.

Public Service Commission Library Newsletter Available on the Web
The new issue of the PSC Library Newsletter is available at:
www.psc-cfp.gc.ca/library/news-bull/news-bull-eng.htm

A pdf version is also available at the following address:
www.psc-cfp.gc.ca/library/news-bull/pdf/cur-cour-eng.pdf

Subscribe to International Public Management Journal at a reduced rate
The International Public Management Journal, which publishes high-quality empirical and theoretical work on management large public organizations, is available to members of the International Public Management Network at a special rate of $45 US per year. Membership in the network is free at http://www.inpuma.net/members.htm. [details (PDF)]

Subscribe to Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis at a Reduced Rate
Faculty members teaching at CAPPA member programs are entitled to a subscription to the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA) at a reduced rate of $50 US, compared to the regular individual rate of $106 US. JCPA is edited by Iris Geva-May of Simon Fraser University and Guy Peters of the University of Pittsburgh. The latest issue (December 2004, Vol. 6, No. 3) features an article by Michael Howlett (Simon Fraser) and Evert Lindquist (Victoria) entitled "Policy Analysis and Governance: Analytical and Policy Styles in Canada." Subscription form (PDF).

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