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Funding cuts could unshackle Canadian civil society
Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Apr 14 2012
… the Conservatives may have done Canada a favour. Deprived of federal funding, independently-minded activists will have to learn new ways of ethically raising money from individuals, communities, and businesses. By multiplying their revenue sources, social justice groups will reduce their vulnerability to single-source arm-twisting. By going private, they will no longer have to worry about offending government ministers. This new, American-style approach to promoting social justice could be a good thing.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, rights
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How civil servants serve a hated master
Monday, July 4th, 2011
June 30, 2011
the civil service is, in theory, a neutral administrative tool. In reality, of course, civil servants have scruples and ideologies just like the rest of us… Thus, when serving a government whose policies they personally dislike, senior civil servants can’t help but face a powerful ethical choice: lead with enthusiasm, secretly resist, or resign? Economist Albert Hirschman nicely laid out the choices in his classic text, Exit, Voice and Loyalty: keep one’s mouth shut (Loyalty); protest forcefully from within (Voice); or leave (Exit).
Tags: ideology, participation
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