Paris, 12,13,14 December 1996

SOG/CRA Colloquium

Public Sector and Contracting in the last fifteen years (1980-1996) in Industrialised Countries

The new contractualism, a management tool for better results in the public service
Yvonne Fortin: 'Central agencies, centres of departments and management of contracts or quasi contracts'
Mark Considine: 'Case management of long term unemployed in Australia'
Hikka Summa: 'Ministries and agencies as contracting parties in the Finnish government'

Public servants and contracts
Jeanne Siwek Poydesseau: 'Public service unions facing the increased contractualism in the French State'
Elizabeth Symons: 'Civil service unions and the new public management in the United Kingdom'
Christopher Hood: 'Employment contracts for SES in the UK'
Jens Gunvaldsen: 'Merit pay for top civil servants in the central government administration according to management contracts: the case of a five year experience in Norway'

Quality insurance and quality contracts
Bénédicte Delauny: 'The citizens charters and the quality contracts in the French administration'
Geert Bouckaert: 'Quality contracts, an international comparison'

The new contractualism as a new ethos of the relationship between the different components of the public service
Michel Lesage: 'Contractual relationships between the Russian Federation and the Russian States'
Ulrich Klöti: 'Contractualism in a federal state, Switzerland'
Guy Peters: 'Contracts as a means for policy making and the use and abuse of negotiations, the USA and Canada'
Nicole de Monticher: 'The resource agreements between the national state and the regions in France'
Gerard Marcou: 'City planning and contracts'
Jérome Valluy: 'Partnerships and cross program approaches; the case of environment in Rhône Alps (France) and Bade Wurtemberg (Germany)'

Contracts as a way to enhance the relationships between national and decentralised authorities and between the State and the GBEs
Françoise Dreyfus: 'The resource agreements between the state and the GBEs: who wins? who looses?'
Bert Rockman: 'Contracts: a step towards the privatisation of the public services'

Impacts of contractualism on law and institutions
PP Craig: 'The contracts state: administrative law revisited'

Contractualism, structure, organisation and the way administrative and political systems operate
Jan-Eric Furubo: 'To create institutional prerequisites for evaluations'

Jacques Chevallier will provide an analytical summary of the conference

For Further Details Contact: Dr Yvonne Fortin, Chargé de Recherche au CNRS, Centre de Recherches Administratives, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, F-75337, PARIS CEDEX 07, France, Fax: 33 1 45 44 92 68