Rebuilding policy capacity in the era of the fiscal dividend: A report from Canada
Rebuilding policy capacity in the era of the fiscal dividend: A report from Canada
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10.1111/0952-1895.00124
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2000-01-01
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Bakvis, H
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Bakvis, H
世界上许多地区的政府在经过二十年的削减赤字和改组业务之后，再次考虑新的政策和支出。在最近预算盈余取代赤字的加拿大，联邦政府一直在问，它是否仍有能力对新项目做出明智的选择。本文考察了加拿大最近为重建其政策能力所做的努力。首先，它提出了政策能力最初丧失的程度和方式。其次，它评估了新的政策“网络”的充分性，包括智库、顾问和政府官员，作为前政府控制的咨询机构、皇家委员会和内部政策单位的“虚拟替代品”。最后，它注意到议员甚至政治行政部门相对缺乏能力重建活动，这种缺乏从长远来看可能会破坏这种努力的合法性和有效性。
After two decades of focusing on deficit reduction and restructuring of operations, governments in,,many areas of the world are once again contemplating new policies and expenditures. In Canada, where budgetary surpluses have recently replaced deficits, the federal government has been asking whether it still has the capacity to make informed choices about new programs. This article examines Canada's recent efforts ill rebuilding its policy capacity. It asks, first, to what extent and in what way was policy capacity originally lost. Second, it appraises the adequacy of new policy "networks," consisting of think tanks, consultants and government officials, as "virtual replacements" for former government-controlled advisory bodies, royal commissions, and in-house policy units. Finally, if notes the relative absence of parliamentarians, and even the political executive, from capacity-rebuilding activities, a deficiency that in the long run may undermine the legitimacy and effectiveness of such efforts.