How important is an independent civil service?
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@evan High. I prefer the way the civil service functions in Canada, taking orders from the ministry, but independent, non-partisan and ultimately serving the Crown rather than the government of the day. But there are some virtues to a system as in the US with heavy turn-over of the upper levels of the civil service when a new administration comes in: fresh ideas, people with experience from outside government, alignment with the elected officials.
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I think this is one of the developments of modern democracies, like ending property requirements for suffrage, or citizen militias, that is not sufficiently celebrated or recognized. The reforms for independent, professional civil service happened in North America and Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Anyway, I think this is high importance.
