TY - BOOK AU - Juillet, Luc AU - Rasmussen, Ken AB - In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service, which has become a pillar of Canadian parliamentary democracy. DO - 10.26530/OAPEN_578766 ID - OAPEN ID: 578766 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030819220 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33024 KW - canada KW - public service commission KW - public servant KW - Bureaucracy KW - Civil service KW - Civil service commission KW - Democracy KW - Human resource management KW - Ottawa L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33024/1/578766.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33024/1/578766.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33024/1/578766.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33074 PB - University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa PY - 2008 SN - 9780776617770 TI - Defending a Contested Ideal : Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008 ER -