Ken Rasmussen is a professor of public administration

Public administration

Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....

 at the University of Regina Graduate School of Public Policy (renamed the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy) and he considers himself an expert on Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

 politics

Politics

Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

, public policy and public administration.

Rasmussen received his doctorate in Political Science from the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

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Publications

“A Functioning Executive: Chester Barnard and the Modern Manager” in Canadian Public Administration

with James Pitsula, Privatizing a Province: The New Right in Saskatchewan, New Star Books.

"The Saskatchewan Public Service: Converging Towards the Norm?" in Saskatchewan Politics

External links

• University of Regina Graduate School of Public Policy
• CBC feature
• Ken Rasmussen