Review: Canada: The Canadian Public Service
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207503000228 |
| Author | R. Bothwell |
| Published date | 01 June 1975 |
| Date | 01 June 1975 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
366
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
essence
conveyed
a
picture
of
national
unity painfully
and
slowly
emerging
in
Canada.
If
the
authors
had
elected
to
add an
additional
chapter,
par-
ticularly
for
political
scientists,
they
might
have
prepared
one
on
'the political
system
and
Canadian
development.'
In
it
the
institu-
tional
role
of
the governments
(including
the
neglected
provincial
governments)
might
come
through dearly.
In
such
a
chapter,
atten-
tion
might
be
devoted,
for example,
to
the growth
of
the
admin-
istrative
organization
(note
the
writings
of
J.E.
Hodgetts
and
others,
in addition
to the
Hodgetts
reference
on
pages
322
and
395);
the
evolving
federal
relationships
(see,
for
example,
mention
of
the
'years
of
unquestioned
federal
ascendancy of
the
war
years'
which were
'rapidly
drawing
to
a
close,'
page
325);
the
political
theories
which
accompanied
political
change
during
the
period;
a
more
detailed
account
of
the
beginnings of
wartime demobilization
and
political
ad-
justment
from
1918
to
1921
and
the
rationale therefor.
In
the
con-
clusion,
the
chapter might
consider
the
extent to
which
the 'trans-
formation'
of
1896-1921
was
induced
by,
affected
by,
or
reflected
institutional
changes
in
the
political
system.
But,
with
this
minor
caveat
by
a
political
scientist,
I
hasten
to
agree
with
W.L.
Morton and
D.G.
Creighton, the
editors
of
the
Cana-
dian
Centenary
Series,
that
this
book
by
two
distinguished
historians
is
a 'scholarly
accomplishment of
rare
merit.'
R.
Taylor
Cole/Duke
University
THE
CANADIAN
PUBLIC
SERVICE
A
Physiology
of
Government
1967-1970
J.E.
Hodgetts
Toronto:
University
of
Toronto
Press,
1973,
xvi,
363pp,
$14.50
The
title
of
this
omnibus
volume
is
all
things
to
all
men;
to
the
political
scientist
it
promises
an
analysis
of
Canadian
bureaucracy
in
the here
and
now;
to
the
historian,
it
suggests
the
long-awaited sequel
to
Professor
Hodgetts'
Pioneer
Public
Service;
to
those
addicted
to
metaphor,
it
trots
out
our
old
friend,
the
organic
analysis of
the
gov-
ernmental
process. It
is
a
powerful
metaphor
which
has
repeatedly
been
used
to
simplify
-
and
clarify
-
our
understanding
of
the
mys-
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