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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
The Guardian
:
Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario,1961-2003
Contains:
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction -- -- SECTION 1. Structures and Contexts of the Guardian -- -- 1. The House Frost Built: Institutional Change and the Department of Treasury, 1943–1961 -- -- 2. From ‘Treasury’ to ‘Finance’: The Anatomy of a Guardian, 1961–2001 -- -- 3. Priority Setters and Guardians: The Relationships between Premiers and Treasurers in Ontario, 1960–2001 -- -- SECTION 2. The Guardian in Policy Making -- -- 4. Intergovernmental Guardians: Treasury’s Role in Setting the National Agenda, 1959–1967 -- -- 5. From Pragmatism to Neoliberalism: Ontario’s Hesitant Farewell to Dr Keynes -- -- 6. Thoughts into Words: The Budget Speech, 1968–2003 -- -- 7. The Ontario Ministry of Finance as an Exception in Canadian Public Administration -- -- SECTION 3. The Guardian and Budget Making -- -- 8. Coping with Complexity: Innovation and Resistance in Crafting the Expenditure Budget, 1961–1985 -- -- 9. Budget Making in the Ontario Ministry of Finance, 1985–2000 -- -- 10. ‘Guardian’ as ‘Spender’: Infrastructure Investment, 1960–2005 -- -- 11. Guardians in Check: The Impact of Health Care on the Ontario Budget, 1960–2004 -- -- Conclusion -- -- Contributors -- -- Backmatter
Footnote:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Description:
Finance departments have often been portrayed as guardians of the public purse. In The Guardian, a multidisciplinary group of contributors examines the Ministry of Finance of Ontario since the Second World War. During the last sixty years the Ministry was transformed from a relatively small 'Treasury' to a sophisticated policy machine. What started as a modest bookkeeping operation evolved into a key bureaucratic and policy agency as the government of Ontario assumed a leadership position in developing the province.These essays reveal Ontario's 'finance' as a dynamic policy issue shaped by the personalities of premiers and ministers, the energies of public servants at all levels, and a critical dialogue between political and administrative worlds. Drawing on different methodologies, this collection profiles a ministry as policy entrepreneur, spender, revenue generator, capacity builder, budget director, program manager, and intergovernmental agent. The Guardian fills a significant gap in public administration literature and in so doing describes how Ontario's Ministry of Finance defined its role as 'guardian.'