Des pouvoirs et des hommes: L'administration municipale de Montreal, 1900-1950 (Volume 25) (Canadian Public Administration Series) (French Edition) - Hardcover

Dagenais, Michele

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773518894 ISBN 13: 9780773518896

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Basing her work on extensive study of Montreal's city records, Dagenais gives us a view of city government from inside city hall, showing how the city's institutions really functioned. From 1900 to 1950, the municipal administration underwent a decisive transformation to become a modern bureaucracy. Dagenais explores the forces behind modernization by illuminating the roles played by city hall's main actors; elected officials, department heads and civil servants. Dagenais presents the municipal government from three perspectives. She first views it as a public administration whose history is marked by the numerous power struggles which brought elected officials into conflict with professional bureaucrats. Secondly, she sees it as a large enterprise which was notably influenced by modern management techniques, and finally she shows it to be a working environment shaped by professional relationships. Dagenais provides the first detailed history of a municipal administration in Canada, one that is particularly important as Montreal was at the economic and financial centre of Canada during this crucial period of urban and industrial development.

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Universite de Montreal, Canada

Universite de Montreal, Canada

Language Notes:

Text: French

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0773518894
• ISBN 13: 9780773518896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240