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100	1		_9614 _a Aucoin, Peter
245	1	0	_aDesigning a merit-based process for appointing boards of ABCS : _blessons from the Nova Scotia reform experience
260			_c2002
520	3		_aEfforts to design merit-based appontment systems for the boards of government agencies, boards and commissions (ABCS) have gained greater priority over the past decade in order to enhance public confidence in the integrity of the political process, improve the governance of organizations operating at arm's length from ministers, and reduce the risks to the public interest and public purse that come with incompetent boards. The Nova Scotia reform experience in this regard is instructive because this province's appointment regime not only encompasses a legislative comittee veto over ministerial appointements, a power unique to this province in the Canadian and comparative Westminster systems, but also uniquely sets the merit standard as relative-merit, that is, the appintement of the most qualified of all applicants, and not merely a qualified candidate. This article reviews this provincial experience and concludes that a merit-based appontment system that pursues relative merit can be created but only by restricting the authority of ministers to a veto over the appontment of candidates nominated by the ABCS themselves
700	1		_aGOODYEAR-GRANT, Elizabeth _920372
773	0	8	_tCanadian Public Administration Publique du Canada _g45, 3, p. 301-327 _d, 2002 _w
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998			_a20030228 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20060327 _b1427^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c11733 _d11733
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