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100			_aVan Nijnatten, Debora L.
245			_aBureaucracy and consultation: the correctional service of Canada and the requirements of being democratic
260			_c1995
300			_ap.204-21
362			_aSummer
520			_aThe question of how the "participatory" climate of the 1990s has affected government decision-making processes in Canada has caught the attention of many students of public administration. The Correctional Service of Canada (csc) has made a commitment over the last decade to greater public involvement in its operations. However, the csc initially underestimated the tensions between bureaucratic and consultative practice, as well as the extent of the organizational changes required for meaningful consultation. The result was a delayed adaptation to the requirements of consultation, which impaired the csc's ability to communicate with the public. The first part of this paper delineates the tensions between bureaucratic and consultative practice that manifest themselves in different assumptions concerning who should make policy decisions, what criteria should be used in decision making, who should be informed and, finally, how the decision-making organizations should be designed. In the second part, the csc's attempts to overcome such tensions are examined in four cases of community consultation conducted in the 1990s. - Reproduced
650			_aBureaucracy
700			_aGregoire, Sheila Wray
773			_aCanadian Public Administration
909			_a31965
999			_c31965 _d31965