Consulting No One: Is Democratic Administration the Answer for First Nations?
In 1996, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of Canada released its report, Study of Accountability Practices from the Perspective of First Nations, which found that governments and First Nations have different understandings of what is meant by accountability. While the Department of Indian and...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.431.7522 2023-05-15T16:14:36+02:00 Consulting No One: Is Democratic Administration the Answer for First Nations? Ph. D. Candidate Mai Nguyen The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.431.7522 http://www.innovation.cc/scholarly-style/19_1_7_nguyen_democractic-administration.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.431.7522 http://www.innovation.cc/scholarly-style/19_1_7_nguyen_democractic-administration.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.innovation.cc/scholarly-style/19_1_7_nguyen_democractic-administration.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T04:42:47Z In 1996, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of Canada released its report, Study of Accountability Practices from the Perspective of First Nations, which found that governments and First Nations have different understandings of what is meant by accountability. While the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) understood the department’s mechanism of accountability to be concerned with the form of accountability for funding, First Nations believed accountability required increasingly open and transparent dialogue between the department and the people it affects; that is, accountability for performance which means that government action must achieve high results to cover citizens ’ expectations (Behn, 2001: 10). However, accountability for performance is not occurring in practice. Instead, the implementation of the New Public Management model in Canada since the 1980s has not fulfilled its mandate to be more effective and accountable because of the model’s focus on treating citizens like consumers. This paper argues that accountability for performance can Text First Nations Unknown Behn ENVELOPE(-61.433,-61.433,-64.383,-64.383) Canada Indian |
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In 1996, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of Canada released its report, Study of Accountability Practices from the Perspective of First Nations, which found that governments and First Nations have different understandings of what is meant by accountability. While the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) understood the department’s mechanism of accountability to be concerned with the form of accountability for funding, First Nations believed accountability required increasingly open and transparent dialogue between the department and the people it affects; that is, accountability for performance which means that government action must achieve high results to cover citizens ’ expectations (Behn, 2001: 10). However, accountability for performance is not occurring in practice. Instead, the implementation of the New Public Management model in Canada since the 1980s has not fulfilled its mandate to be more effective and accountable because of the model’s focus on treating citizens like consumers. This paper argues that accountability for performance can |
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