Department
of Political Science
POLS
6155.03
DEMOCRATIC
ADMINISTRATION
Fall
2002
Location:Verney
Room, S674, Ross Building
Instructor:Ian
Greene
Time:Fridays,
10 a.m. to noon.
Overview
The
study of democratic administration is premised on a commitment to the progressive
extension of people=s
capacities to govern themselves collectively. However, many of the principles
of public administration were developed prior to the democratization of
the state, and one result has been public administration and public policy-making
procedures that are unnecessarily hierarchical, inflexible, and inefficient.Citizen
political apathy, cynicism and alienation from the state has recently been
met with a neo-liberal response that has drastically altered the state
public service through downsizing, out-sourcing, privatization, and Anew
public management@
approaches that apply business administration tools to public administration.At
the same time, there is increased citizen demand for participation in the
policy-making process, a higher standard of public service ethics and accountability,
and there have been some innovative responses from the state to address
important public policy issues.If
the challenges created by current dynamics are to be met successfully,
it will be necessary to transcend the real factors that produce apathy
and alienation from the state. This seminar addresses these issues through:
Can
investigation of the bureaucratic impediments to increased democracy
Can
examination of the promise and limits of recent attempts by governments
to overcome such impediments
Can
historical and comparative focus to better understand the possibilities
of citizen empowerment and the way in which social and political contexts
shape those possibilities.
The
seminar will include readings on both the theory and practice of democratic
administration.
Texts
Required:
Gregory Albo,
David Langille and Leo Panitch, A Different kind of state? : popular
power and democratic administration. Toronto : Oxford University Press,
1993. (JF 1525 D4 D53 1993)
In
addition, some readings, as indicated below, can be found either on the
class web page, or on the internet.Other
seminar readings are in a course kit which may be purchased at Copywell=s,
which is on the east side of Keele Street, across from York University.A
copy of the kit will be filed in the Donald Smiley Library, Political Science
Department.
Requirements
The
requirements for this course consist of:
weekly
seminar readings and participation (25%)
oral
presentation of final paper(20%)
Draft
outline for research paper (Oct. 18)(5%)
final
research paper(50%)
In
the first class, students will have the opportunity to sign up to help
lead the discussion for one reading each week.In
one of the last two classes, students will have an opportunity to present
their final paper so that they may receive comments from the class.(At
this point, only a ten minute summary of the final paper is needed.The
purpose of the presentation is to obtain feedback that may help to improve
the quality of the final product.)
Seminar
Outline
Items
in Course Kit are shown with an asterisk.
I.Sept.
13
Introductions/Course
Outline
$*L.
Sossin, ADemocratic
Administration@
in Handbook of Public Administration in Canada (Toronto: Oxford,
2002), 77-99.
$*Carole
Pateman, ARousseau,
John Stuart Mill and G.D.H. Cole: a participatory theory of democracy,@
in Participation and Democratic Theory (Cambridge: Cam. Univ. Press, 1970),
22-44.
$Andrew
Stark."What is the new public management?"
(Book Review Essay). Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,
Jan 2002 v12 i1 p137 (15).[found
through electronic journals, YUL web site, or link on class web page]
II.Sept.
20
Democratic
Administration and Innovation
$*J.
Frug, AAdministrative
Democracy@
40 University of Toronto L.J. (1990)
$G.
Albo et al (eds.), A Different Kind of State? (1993) (Chs. 2, 5,
6 & 17)
$Glor,
Section I (3-26) and Section III (101-185).
III.Sept.
27
Democracy
and Regulation
Today's
class will be held at the site of an international conference about the
reduction of "red tape" in government.We'll
meet at the conference rooms of the Hilton Toronto, located at 145 Richmond
St. W.There will be no cost for
student participation in the Friday morning session.However,
if there are any wishing to stay for lunch to hear the address of Ali?B.
Haddou?Ruiz of the Federal Regulatory Improvement Commission, Mexico, they
will have to pay a fee of $50 to cover the cost.(Students
wishing to attend the entire conference can register at:http://www.smarttape.ca/)
Readings
to prepare for this class:
$Albo
et al., ch. 7.
$*Kenneth
Kernaghan and David Siegel, Ch. 10, ARegulatory
Agencies,@
Public Administration in Canada (Toronto: Nelson, 1995), 248-285.
$*AGovernance,
Development and the Ecology of Administration@
in Rethinking Public Administration: An Overview (New York: United
Nations, 1998), pp. 4-18
The
conference agenda on Sept. 27 is as follows:
9:00
? 9:15
"The
Conference so Far: Thoughts, Comments, Provocations, Part II":
Stefan
Dupré, Prof. Emeritus, University of Toronto, Conference Co?Chair
9:15
? 10:00
Keynote
Speaker
John
Morrall, Director, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office
ofManagement and Budget, The White
House
"Rethinking Who Does What: The Approach of the Federal Government of the
United States".One "smart tape"
approach to improve efficiency and effectiveness is to reduce the number
of regulatory bodies. The benefits and challenges are examined.
10:00
? 10:30
Networking
Break
10:30
? 12:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session
A: The Risk?Management Approach to Regulation
How
can the use of risk management techniques improve government regulation?
David
Cummins, Wharton School of Business, University of
Pennsylvania
Lawrie
Savage, President, Lawrie Savage and Associates
Session
B: Regulating Professions
Innovative
approaches are being used to certify standards for a profession and toregulate
the number of practitioners within
a profession.
Calum
Delaney, School of Health and Social Sciences, University of
Wales
Institute at Cardiff
David
Thibaudeau, President, Canadian Association of Insurance
and
Financial Advisors
Jan
Robinson, CEO, College of Physiotherapists of Ontario
Session
C: Innovative Approaches to Regulating the Energy Sector
The
energy sector requires smart new approaches to regulation to address 21st
century issues.
Klaas
DeGroot, President and CEO, Enwin Powerlines Ltd. and Chair of the Electricity
Distributors Association
Marie
Rounding, President and CEO, Canadian Gas Association
Tom
Adams, Executive Director, Energy Probe
12:00
? 13:30
Ali?B.
Haddou?Ruiz, Federal Regulatory Improvement Commission, Mexico
"The
Next Step: Building a Community of Practitioners"
The
accomplishments of this conference are reviewed and a proposal made to
establish
further networking opportunities for smart tape practitioners.
IV.Oct.
4
The
Democratic Deficit in Public Policy and Administration
$*M.
Weber,ABureaucracy@
in H. Gerth and C. Mills, From Max Weber, ch.8.
$*K.
Marx, ACritique
of Hegel=s
Doctrine of the State@
in Early Writings, pp.100-16 (<the
executive=),
in Fischer and Siriani, Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy.
$*L.
Sossin, ALaw
and Intimacy in the Bureaucrat-Citizen Relationship.@
(Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada, 2000)
$*K.
Ferguson, ASocial
Structure and Bureaucratic Discourse,@
Ch. 2 in The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy.
$*Caroline
Andrew, AWomen
and the Public Sector,@Handbook
of Public Administration in Canada
(Toronto: Oxford, 2002), 159-168.
$Albo
et al., Ch. 3, 4 & 15.
$Excerpts
from Ian Greene and David Shugarman, Honest Politics:Seeking
Integrity in Canadian Public Life.Toronto:Lorimer,
1997, Ch. 1 & 2. [retrieve from class web page]
V.Oct.
11
The
Politics of Discretion
$*L.
Sossin, AThe
Criminalization and Administration of the Homeless: Notes on the Possibilities
and Limits of Bureaucratic Engagement@
22 N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change (1996), 623-700.
$*C.
Goodsell, The Case for Bureaucracy (1994), ch.5
$*APublic
Administration and Ethics,@
in Gregory Inwood, Understanding Canadian Public Administration (Toronto:
Prentice-Hall, 1999), Ch. 11.
$*Joel
Bakan, AThe
Significance of the APEC Affair,@
and Philip Stenning, ASomeone
to Watch over Me: Government Supervision of the RCMP,@
in W. Wesley Pue, Ed., Pepper in Our Eyes: The APEC Affair (Vancouver:
UBC Press, 2000), 77-116
$*AJudicial
Discretion and Democracy,@
Excerpts from Ch. 1 of Ian Greene, Carl Baar, Peter McCormick, George Szablowski
and Martin Thomas, Final Appeal (Toronto, Lorimer, 1998).
$L.
Sossin,AThe
Politics of Discretion: Towards a Critical Theory of Public Administration@
36 Canadian Public Administration 364 (1993) [link on class web page]
VI.Oct.
18(outline
due)
Democratic
Administration, Public Administration and Democracy
Guest
Speaker:
Richard Phidd
$*H.T.
Wilson, AThe
Civil Service in Capatilist Democracies,@
and ABureaucratic
Representation through Implementation Processes,@
Chapters II and VIII of Bureaucratic Representation: Civil Servants
and the Future of Capitalist Democracies (Brill: Boston, 2001).
$*Greg
McElligott, AFront-Line
Workers and Public Policy,@
and AState
Workers and Democratic Administration,@
Chapters 7 & 8 in Beyond Service:State
Workers, Public Policy, and the Prospects for Democratic Administration
(Toronto: U of T Press, 2001).
$*ACanadian
Administrative Culture Between Past and Present,@
Ch. 6 in O.P. Dwivedi and James Iain Gow, From Bureaucracy to Public
Management: The Administrative Culture of the Government of Canada
(Broadview, 1999).
VII.Oct.
25
Reinventing
Government: The Marketization of the State?
$*D.
Osborne & T. Gaebler, Reinventing Government (1992), preface
and introduction.
$*D.
Savoie, Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy,
(1994) chs. 4-8.
$*J.C.
McDavid and E.G. Clemens, AContracting
out local government services:the
B.C. experience,@
38 Canadian Public Administration, 177-194.
$*D.
Whorley, AThe
Andersen-Comsoc affair: Partnerships and the public interest,@
44 Canadian Public Administration, 320-345.
$*H.
Arthurs, AMechanical
Arts and Merchandise:Canadian Public
Administration in the New Economy@
42 McGill Law Journal (1997).
$Glor,
Sections II and IV.
$Albo,
Ch. 16.
$Ian
Greene, "Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Program Evaluation in Canada,"
Deitmar Braunig and Peter Eichorn (Eds.), Evaluation and Accounting
Standards in Public Management (Baden-Baden:Nomos
Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002), 44-53. [link on class web page]
VIII.Nov.
1
Public
Employees, Social Movements and Public Participation
Guest
seminar leader:Leo Panitch
$*
L. Panitch, AGlobalization
and the State@
The Socialist Register, 1994, and Ch. 1 in the Albo text.
$*Eleanor
Glor, AIdeas
for enhancing employee empowerment in the Government of Canada, 30 Optimum
(2001), 14-26.
$*M.
Flumain, ARedesigning
Government around the Citizen: The Creation of Nunavut@
in S. Delacourt & D. Lenihan (eds.), Collaborative Government: Is There
is a Canadian Way? (Toronto: Institute of Public Administration in Canada
(IPAC), New Directions, No. 6, 1999)
$Albo,
Ch 9-13, 18-20.
IX.Nov.
8
International
Development and Democratic Administration
Today,
the class will be held in the Senior Common Room, 140 McLaughlin College
$*J.
Barker, APolitical
Settings: An Approach to the Study of Popular Action@
(pp.27-56) and ALocal
Action and Global Power: Shifting the Balance@
(pp.238-250) in J. Barker (ed.), Street-Level Democracy (Toronto:
Between the Lines, 1999)
$*J.
Shields & B. Evans, Shrinking the State: Globalization and Public
Administration AReform@
(1998) (Intro. & Ch.1)
$*B.
Guy Peters, AGlobalization,
Institutions and Governance,@
G. Guy Peters and Donald J. Savoie, Governance in the Twenty-first Century:Revitalizing
the Public Service (Ottawa:Canadian
Centre for Management Development:2000),
29-57.
$Chapter
6: Making State ?Institutions More Responsive to Poor People,@
World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty, Ch. 6 (World
Bank, 2001) (http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty/report/ch6.pdf)
$Lorne
Sossin, AHuman
Development, Law & Democratic Administration@
(Rome: United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), 2000 [link on
class web page]
X.Nov.
15
Future
Trends
$*M.
Ogden,ATechnologies
of Abstraction: Cyberdemocracy and the Changing Communications Landscape@
in L. Pal & C. Alexander (eds.), Digital Democracy: Policy &
Politics in a Wired World (Toronto: Oxford, 1998), pp.63-86
$*John
Langford, "Partnering for e-government:Challenges
for public administrators," 44 Canadian Public Administration, 393-416.
$*B.
Barber: Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1984), ch. 7
$*
David Held, ACosmopolitan
Democracy and the New International Order,@
in David Held, Democracy and the Global Order (Sanford: Sanford
Univ. Press, 1995) Ch. 12.
$*B.
Guy Peters, AThe
Future of Reform,@
in G. Guy Peters and Donald J. Savoie, Governance in the Twenty-first
Century:Revitalizing the Public
Service (Ottawa:Canadian Centre
for Management Development:2000),
425-436.
$Glor,
Conclusion and Afterword.
$Albo,
Ch. 8 & 14.
XI.Nov.
22
Student
Presentations (Papers)
XII.Nov.
29
Student
Presentations (Papers)
Useful
electronic sources of information:
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/asroberts/foi/track/(Canadian
access to information database)
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/
(Canadian social science resources)
http://www.tecsoc.org/govpol/govpol.htm
(site on egovernment)
http://www.elections.ca/
(another site on egovernment)
http://www.elections.ca/
(Elections Canada; voting results of federal elections and by-elections;
election income and expenses declarations)
http://www.ipaciapc.ca/
(Institute of Public Administration of Canada)
Other
useful sources:
Evert
Lindquist and Tammy Sica, Canadian Governments and the Search for Alternative
Service Delivery and Financing: A Preliminary Survey (Institute of Public
Administration of Canada and KPMG Centre for Government Foundation: 1996).JL
108 L55 1996.