Chapter 10 Objectives for Student Learning

The Administrative State

After reading this chapter, students should be able to:

  • Identify and distinguish the functions of a government department, a regulatory agency, and a Crown corporation.
  • Describe the evolution and development of the Canadian bureaucracy since Confederation
  • Explain the merit principle.
  • Discuss the political rights of public servants.
  • Discuss how globalization has affected the Canadian state.
  • Respond to the question of whether the idea of representative democracy is consistent with the merit principle.
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