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STATIONARY POPULATION AS A POLICY VISION

Anatole Romaniuk

This paper suggests that a stationary population is an optimal response to the quest for ecological and economic sustainability, social cohesion and world peace.







ARTHUR KROEGER ON POLITICAL MANAGEMENT

David Stambrook

This paper reflects on Arthur Kroeger’s 2009 book (Retiring the Crow Rate) as a valuable insider assessment of a radical policy modification to Western Canada grain transportation arrangements in the early 1980s – story, history, critical outlook and guidance to policy management of complex issues.<







WHY THE PUBLIC SERVICE MODERNIZATION ACT HAS FAILED

Doug Dollinger

The Public Service Modernization Act (PSMA) has had a checkered record in managing deep change that are called for, because it has failed to understand the difference between managing people and managing human resources processes







LETTER FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF

Gilles Paquet











THE DEMOCRACY-TECHNOCRACY TUG OF WAR

Ruth Hubbard

There have been increasing tensions between elected officials and bureaucrats over the last while as the governing process has become more complex: more bureaucratic disloyalty, and a dangerous claim by bureaucrats that they have a better view of the public interest than the elected officials.







MEDIA, IMPRECATION AND DISINFORMATION

Gilles Paquet

Imprecators often reveal important sources of scandals, but they too can fall into character assassination and intimidation. Journalism often uses humour, pseudo-investigative ventures and editorializing as various ways to transgress the important boundaries between reporting, serious police investigation, and the rendering of judgment. Disinformation ensues and this may have a toxic impact on governance.











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