Governance and Administration in the 21st Century:
new trends and new techniques  
  • General Rapporteur : ARGYRIADES, Demetrios
Introductory Report (30 pages) ( 139K)
Twenty-fifth International Congress of Administrative Sciences
9 to 13 July 2001 - Athens - Greece

Sub-topics:
1. The rule of law and public administration in a global setting
  • Rapporteur : Karl-Peter Sommermann
    Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer, Germany
 Introductory Report ( 29K)

  • Translating Theoretical Ideas into Modern State Reform : economic reform theory and competing models of governance / ABERBACH, Joel D.; CHRISTENSEN, Tom, 23 p. 

  • Overcoming the rationality/legitimacy duality in the Policy Sciences : a meta-theoretical approach / ANDREWS, Christina Windsor, 22 p. 

  • On the Significance of the Croatian Mode of Privatisation from the Viewpoint of Public Interest and under the Contexte Globalist / BABIC, Marko, 23 p. 

  • Globalisation and the Evolution of the Rule of Law : uniformity vs. harmony / BONNEVILLE, Bruno, 16 p . 

  • Governance and Development Co-operation / CERRILLO MARTINEZ, Agustí, 21 p. 

  • The Role of Civil Society in Sustainable Development for this Nis : the Armenian example / COE, Barbara A., 22 p. 

  • De la diversité des modèles nationaux de gouvernance, COTE, Louis, 18 p. 

  • The Changing Functions of Law and its Implications for Government and Governance / DE VRIES, Michiel S., 19 p. 

  •  Confucianist Values and Government Reform / DU, Gangjian; PANG, Benkang, 10 p. 

  •  Globalisation et Européisation : les adaptations de la Coopération administrative internationale de la France et le poids des traditions juridiques et corporatistes / EMAGNA, Maximim Joseph, 27 p. 

  • The Rule of Law and Public Administration in a Global Setting / GASPART, Michael, 12 p. 

  • La delegation legislative en Roumanie. Analyse comparative par rapport aux Etats occidentaux / IORGOVAN, Antonie ; TOFAN, Dana, 24 p. 

  • The Role of the Political-Administrative System in the Post-Capitalist Societies : the case of emerging countries / IRAGUI, Jorge Alberto, 19 p. 

  • The South African Rule of Law and Public Administration in a Global Setting / LUVUNO, Londoloza Leo, 20 p. 

  • Rule of Law at the Crossroads of the National  to the International Level / MERTEN, Detlef, 16 p. 

  • Key Economic and Politico-instiutional Elements of Modern Interventionism : a synopsis / KARAGIANNIS, Nikolaos, 28 p. 

  • Le service public dans l’ Union européenne / KTISTAKI, Stavroula, 19 p. 

  • The Reform of the Public Administration and the Decision-Making Process in Italy / LADU, Giampaolo, 24 p. 

  • La règle de droit et les administrations publiques dans un contexte mondial. Nouvelles bases pour l’ Etat de droit et les droits de l’ homme / MANIATIS, Antoine p. 20. 

  • Le rôle et les caractéristiques des autorités administratives centrales indépendantes en Roumanie / PETRESCU, Rodica Narcisa, 22 p. 

  • Rules of Law and Public Administration : a case study of South Asia / SHARMA, Om Parkash, 23 p. 

  • The Economic and Political Transition of the Mexican State in the Threshold of Twenty First Century : from the entrepreneurial state to the state of entrepreneurs / VARGAS-HERNANDEZ, José G., 25 p. 

  • The Rule of Law and Public Administration in CEEC / the way from totalitarianism into the 21st Century / VIDLAKOVA, Olga, 19 p. 


2. New information and management technologies for public administration in the 21st century

  • Rapporteur : Maria del Carmen Pardo
    Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
Introductory Report ( 23K) 
  • REPORT - New Information and Management Technologies for the 21st Century Public Administration. 
  • Re-engineering Public Service Delivery : international benchmarks and the India experience / AGNIHOTRI, Vivek K., 24 p. 
  • Pour optimiser les relations entre l’ Etat et le citoyen : un laboratoire de stimulation des communications gouvernementales / BEAUREGARD, Claude ; FORTIN, Julie ; SIMARD, Pierre, 16 p. 
  • A Framework for Theory-Grounded Practice : integration of new public management approaches within a cognitive action arena construct / CALISTA, Donald J., 36 p. 
  • Thailand International PSO : implementation efforts and achievement / CHANDARASORN, Voradej, 36 p. 
  • Le gouvernement en direct au gouvernement federal du Canada : enjeux organisationnels et politiques / CHARIH, Mohamed; JACYNTHE, Robert, 20 p. 
  • Vers une administration électronique ? Les systèmes d’ information territoriaux, ou la web modernisation de l’ administration locale / CHATY, Lionel ; GIRLANDA, Carlo, 27 p. 
  • Press Ahead with Public Administration Reform in the 21st Century by Relying on Information-Technology : introduction to E-government and its practice in China / CHEN, Fuxia, 22 p. 
  • Improving Effective Governance Outcomes with Electronic Decision Support Tools / CLOETE, Fanie, 20 p. 
  • Latin American Indigenous on the Net / DEL ALAMO PONS, Oscar, 23 p. 
  • The Challenge of Preparing Newfoundland and Labrador for the Knowledge-based Economy : the applicability of international models / DUNN, Christopher, 22 p. 
  • A project for E-procurement for Public Administration / FIORENTINO, Luigi, 14 p. 
  • Conflict is Not Always Against Performance / HIGAN, Abdulrahman A., 18 p. 
  • E-Government Trend in Asian Countries ; introduction and utilization of IT for managing organizations and providing public services, from performance measurement to new budgeting and accounting system / HUDO, Hiroko, 19 p. 
  • Taichi Model : an introduction to a comprehensive strategic management model for public organisations / LI, Xuefeng, 17 p. 
  • Efforts towards “ Electronic Government ” and the Use of Information Technologies in the Government Statistical Activities / KANEKO, Yuko, 17 p. 
  • New Public Management — Transforming Governance and Civil Service Systems / LAEGREID, Per, 24 p. 
  • Critical Issues of Information Systems Management in the Greek Public Sector / LOUKIS, Euripidis N. ; TSOUMA, Niki, 27 p. 
  • Towards a New Governmental Philosophy : changing governmental philosophy on the quality of health care and social welfare policy / MEIJER, Frans M., 26 p. 
  • Tools for Good Governance : managing international negotiations more effectively / METCALFE, Les; METCALFE, David, 22 p. 
  • Aspects of Citizen-Public Services Relations : the case of Greece / MICHALOPOULOS, Nikos, 18 p. 
  • Toward New Public Management in Japanese Local Government. A Struggle to Transform DNA of Bureaucratic Culture — In the City Government of Fukuoka / MIYAMOTO, Norihisa; BABA, Shinichi; IMASATO, Shigeru, 16 p. 
  • La mise en œuvre du contrôle de gestion dans une organisation publique : réussir l’ appropriation par les auteurs / NAULLEAU, Gérard, 19 p. 
  • Pour une approche intégrée des réformes dans l’ administration publique : le cas des NTIG au Cameroun / OUM, Edouard, 28 p. 
  • Computing in Polish Local Administration — New Technology, Old Experience / PAWLOWSKA, Agnieszka, 19 p. 
  • Public Administration and the Future — Moving towards a Modernised Government / PILLAY, Saigree, 23 p. 
  • Les pratiques financières émergentes : de nouvelles stratégies d’ action pour l’ Etat / ROUILLARD, Lucie, 21 p.
  • The Slimstate-sate reform and theory in Austria / STADLER, Sabine, 23 p. 
  • The Impact of Networks on Issues of Governance : developing strategies for the future / MANDELL, Myrna P.; STEELMAN, Toddi A., 18 p. 
  • A Laboratory for the Information Society and the USA / TIIHONEN, Paula Marjaana, 6 p. 
  • Performance Measurement and the Management Decision-Making Process in the Public Sector / TODD, Roger, 28 p. 
  • Reaping the Rewards of Entrepreneurial Government : Manitoba’s Special Operating Agencies / WILKINS, John K., 34 p.   

3. The Changing Position and Status of Public Servant

  • Rapporteur : Barbara Kudrycka
    Rector of the School of Public Administration in Bialystok, Poland
  • Professionalising Human Resource Development / AL-ABDULLATIF, Abdullatif S., 17 p.
  • The Changing Position and Status of Civil Servants : changing markets for skills and their effects on the public service / AUCOIN, Eugène, 21 p.
  • The Management of Diversity in the UK Civil Service : a model of excellence or a case of the emperor’s new clothes ? / AULUCK, Randhir Kirk, 24 p. 
  • Civil Service Reform in Ghana : a case study of contemporary problems in reform in Africa / AYEE, Joseph R.A., 23 p. 
  • Public-Private Career Competition : the challenges beyond 2000 / BEKKER, Koos, 25 p. 
  • The Future of the International Civil Service / BEL HADJ AMOR, Mohsen,13 p. 
  • A Code of Good Administrative Behaviour for the Community Officials in their Relations with the Public : a preventive mechanism / BROMS, Benita, 14 p. 
  • Toward More Democratic Governance : recent-public sector reforms in Australia, Canada, theUnited Kingdom and the United States / CAIDEN, Gerard Elliot; CAIDEN, Naomi Joy, 17 p. 
  • The New European Administrative Space and its Impact on Top European Public Function / CAMINO PONS, J. Pere, 32 p. 
  • Polish Model of the Civil Service in Comparison with West European Models / CZAPUTOWICZ, Jacek, 17 p. 
  • Les nouveaux défis de la gestion publique des ressources humaines orientée vers les résultats. Présentation et illustration d’un modèle axé sur la valeur humaine ajoutée à l’ organisation publique / EMERY, Yves, 29 p. 
  • Unmasking Facts : modernization, new contractual responses and human capital in the Argentine public sector / GARCIA, María Ester, 23 p. 
  • The Public Administrator as Moral Agent : ethics, agency, and public choice / GAROFALO, Charles, 19 p. 
  • Strategies for Enhancing, and Obstacles to, Professionalism and Ethics in the South African Public Service / HILLIARD, Victor Grove, 15 p. 
  • Practising Public Management Values in South Africa / KANYANE, Modimowarwa Hendrick ; TSEBE, J.K., 14 p. 
  • An Assessment of Values Contained in the Philosophy of Management and an Assessment of Managers’ Personal Value Systems of the Universidad del Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela / LOPEZ PACHECO,Caleb A., 23 p. 
  • Ethical Dilemmas in Public Administration : the “ ALIR ” imperatives of ethical reasoning / MAKRYDEMETRES, Anthony, 24 p. 
  • Rôles et responsabilités du fonctionnaire dans le développement d’une administration publique au service du citoyen : la situation des pays francophones au Sud du Sahara / NGOUO, Léon Bertrand, 20 p. 
  • TManaging through Measurement or Meaning ? : lessons from experience with New Zealand’s public sector performance management systems / NORMAN, Richard, 26 p. 
  • endances majeures de l’ évolution récente des fonctions publiques dans l’ espace africain francophone, et perspectives de leurs réformes / NZOUANKEU, Jacques Mariel, 30 p. 
  • Silent Innovations in Federal Civil Service. Argentina 1989-1999 / ORLANSKY, Dora, 17 p. 
  • The Impact of Values within a Correctional Organization “ A Human Resources Perspective ” / PELLETIER, Jacques M., 24 p. 
  • Serving the Public in the New Millennium : a South African perspective / PENCELIAH, Yogi; MOODLEY, Sathiasiven, 26 p. 
  • Status of Civil Servants, New Trends and Tendencies : the Latinamerican Case / PEREZ-SALGADO, Ignacio, 21 p. 
  • La conception du rôle et de la fonction des administrateurs publics : une étude Cameroun — Canada dans une perspective internationale comparée / PROULX, Denis, 21 p. 
  • Civil Services in Central and Eastern Europe : a comparative study / RANDMA, Tiina; VIKS, Külli, 24 p. 
  • Servir l’ Etat dans l’ Europe de demain. Représentations de l’ Etat et perception des fonctions publiques chez les jeunes européens / SADRAN, Pierre, 23 p. 
  • Build a vigorous public servant system in China, meet new challenges and march towards the new century / SONG, De-ci, 20 p. 
  • Le fonctionnaire et le service public. Quelques éléments sur la situation du fonctionnaire dans les pays en voie de développement (pays en transition). En particulier en Algérie / TAIBI, Abdelkader, 19 p. 
  • Training and Public Organisations in Southern Italy : the changing workshop / TROPEANO, Elena, 15 p. 
  • Which is the Human Resources Policy and the Change Management Strategy needed for the Public Administration to Face the Challenges of the 21st Century (experiences, practices from the European reality) / VITANTZAKIS, Nick, 20 p. 
  • The Social Context of Organizational Learning about Computer Applications / WOLDESENBET, Daniel; KLAY, William Earle, 24 p. 
  • Understanding the Psychological Contract in the Public Sector / WOOLDRIDGE, Ewart, 20 p. 
  • Management of Government Office : an urgent subject of government work and administrative management in the new century / ZHENG, Yan Tao, 10 p. 

4. Governance and Civil Society
  • Rapporteur : Akira Nakamura
    Meiji University, Japan  
Introductory Report ( 53K)  
  • The Nonprofit Sector : world and Bangladesh / AHMAD, Mokbul Morshed, 27 p. 
  • Building a Successful Municipal Association : a case study on the impact of the national association on democratic reforms in the republic of Macedonia / APRIL, Leah C., 22 p . 
  • La société civile — Dimension de la démocratie et du gouvernement démocratique / BICHICEAN, Gheorghe, 15 p. 
  • The Relationship between the State and the Voluntary Sector in Ireland and the Role of Partnerships, Local Government and Cross Border Co-operation / BIRRELL, William Derek; GRAY, Ann-Marie, 20 p. 
  • Finding a Bowling Partner : the role of stakeholders in activating civil society in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom / BOVAIRD, Tony; LOFFLER, Elke; PARRADO-DIEZ, Salvador, 20 p. 
  • The New Sciences of Self - Organization : a model for implementation of governance reform / COOPER, Terry L.; MUSSO, Juliet A.; OZTAS, Nail, 29 p.
  • Evaluating Corporate Board Cultures and Decision Making / CUTTING, Bruce; KOUZMIN, Alexander, 19 p. 
  • The Spiritual Dimension of Common Good and Good Governance / DWIVEDI, O.P., 20 p. 
  • The Hong Kong Regime Transformation at the Crossroads : from the politics-administration perspective and the network / GAGE, Robert; MOON, Myung Jae, 25 p. 
  • Citizen Participation — A Response to the Crisis of Representative Democracy / HARMS, Hans; TSOBANOGLOU, Giorgios O., 17 p. 
  • Trust Capital of the Ministries / HARISALO, Risto; STENVALL, Jari, 19 p. 
  • Comparing Governance Across Countries and Over Times : conceptual and methodological challenges / HYDEN, Goran; COURT, Julius, 23 p. 
  • Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh : a critical overview / KHAN, Mohammad Mohabbat, 18 p. 
  • Citizen Participaation in Governance : fact or fallacy ? / KROUKAMP, Hendri Jacobus, 26 p. 
  • Programme national de gouvernance du Cameroun : pour un partenariat de qualité entre l’ Etat et la Société Civile dans la gestion des affaires publiques / NGAMBO FONDJO, Pierre Vincent, 14 p. 
  • Nouveaux modèles de collaboration pour la prestation des services publics. Etat de la situation au Québec / PREFONTAINE, Lise ; RICARD, Line ; SICOTTE, Hélène, 21 p. 
  • Organisations Non Gouvernementales : de la participation à la responsabilité ? / RODRÍGUEZ PONTÓN, Francisco José, 27 p. 
  • How can Network Management Support Community Governance ? / SAARELAINEN, Tarja Hannele, 20 p. 
  • Genealogies for the State - Society Governance / TSOBANOGLOU, Georges O., 12 p. -
  • Good Corporate Governance in Thailand / VADHANASINDHU, Chindalak, 18 p.