Civil Service

The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil servant is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency. Civil servants work for government departments, and answer to the government, not a political party. The extent of civil servants of a state as part of the "civil service" varies from country to country. In the United Kingdom, for instance, only Crown (national government) employees are referred …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …

street. Oddly enough it was popular in the civil service, a target of the satire. Maybe, Georges thought


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

rehabilitative penal reformism in the Irish civil service since the 1950s, but it had been largely restrained


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

communists and homo- sexuals were hounded from the civil service, and when the DEW line was built, remediating


PPF: Public Policy Forum  · 18 September 2024 English

Progressives who generally have a more ambitious view of the role of the state A solid working definition of state capac- in the economy and society ought to be ity …

evolved over time. scrutiny. The International Civil Service Effectiveness survey, for instance, has There https://thehub.ca/podcasts/is-the-quality-of-our-civil-service-deteriorating-over-time-former-top-civil-se https://thehub.ca/podcasts/is-the-quality-of-our-civil-service-deteriorating-over-time-former-top-civil-se ). The way-to-fix-government/ International Civil Service Effectiveness (InCiSE) 30. Vaccaro, A. (September .7172339 ca/podcasts/is-the-quality-of-our-civil-service- deteriorating-over-time-former-top-civil-ser-


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 10 September 2024 English

The federal public service plays a vital role in Canada’s development by helping to shape public policies and deliver programs and services to Canadians. Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their …

lcSh: Public administration—Canada. | lcSh: Civil service—Canada. | lcSh: Policy sciences—Canada. | once summed up his evaluation of the British civil service, an assessment that applies equally well to the civil service. You have the feeling that ministers look at economists in the civil service and launch a fundamental review of the work of the civil service. The Northcote-Trevelyan Report, pub- lished the British civil service, leading to a comprehensive overhaul of the British civil service, and later


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 10 September 2024 English

In 1914, the Dominion of Newfoundland found itself at war in defense of the British Empire. On the home front, the war effort reshaped the relationship between citizens and the …

liberty. In return for citizens’ military and civil service to the state, the people expected greater government


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

The Adaptable Country outlines straightforward policy reforms to improve adaptability – the capacity to anticipate and manage danger. In a turbulent world, authoritarian rule is a tempting path to security. …

difference is especially marked for the higher civil service – the three or four top layers of the bureaucracy


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with …

land reclamation, credit system, education, civil service, public health and welfare, railway, City of


AMSSA: Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Services Agencies of BC · 10 April 2024 English

This is an opportunity to uniquely contribute towards the successful integration of immigrants and temporary residents, and the sustainability of the diverse range of communities ISSofBC works with. [...] The …

Individuals with experience at a senior political or civil service level of government (federal or provincial)


Queen's University School of Policy Studies · 8 April 2024 English

Adherence to the values expressed through academic integrity forms a foundaon for the "freedom of inquiry and exchange of ideas" essenal to the intellectual life of the University (see the …

and the implicaons for policy reform and the civil service. The shi toward private services, the rise of


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