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100			_aBierling, Gerald A.
245			_aMovers and stayers: mobility patterns among senior public servants in Canadian provinces
260			_c2000
300			_ap.198-217
362			_aSummer
520			_aThere has developed in Canada a well-established literature on bureaucratic elites at the federal level. There has not, however, been a systematic study of bureaucratic elites at the provincial level. While individual scholars have studied particular provincial governments, there have been few studies that covered more than one province. This paper, which analyses a census of assistant deputy ministers and deputy ministers in every Canadian province between 1988 and 1996, considers the mobility of these top two levels of the senior public service. The findings indicate that there has only been a slight decline in the number of senior public servants as governments have downsized. The findings also show that, unlike at the federal level, there is limited mobility among these senior public servants, with roughly one-third of them changing each year. In some provinces, mobility levels increase slightly in the year after an election. Levels of mobility and changes in the number of senior public servants also vary across provinces, but there is no pattern based on the size of the province. Finally, there are important differences in the mobility depending on the type of department. In particular, in departments where there is a core knowledge or skill, mobility levels are much lower than in departments that lack such a core. These findings throw some light on the difficulties provinces may have in solving some of their more intractable policy problems. - Reproduced
650			_aCivil service - Canada
650			_aCivil service
700			_aRosenblatt, Michael
700			_aCarroll, Barbara Wake
773			_aCanadian Public Administration
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