Durham, 29-31 March 1999

Ethics in Public Service for the New Millennium

This Workshop met in Durham under the auspices of the UK Public Administration Committee of the Joint University Council. It was also recognised as an Affiliate Conference by SOG and received financial assistance from the Garfield Weston Foundation and the University of Pittsburgh.

The Workshop was very successful: there were twenty-eight participants and twelve papers were discussed. They included:

"Local Government Ethics: the last twenty-five years"
Rodney Brooke, formerly Secretary AMA

"The Public Interest: an administrative convenience?"
Barry O'Toole, University of Glasgow

"The Ethics of Equal Opportunities"
Sue Corby, University of Greenwich

"Setting Standards in a New Organisation: the case of the British Civil Service Commission"
Richard A. Chapman, University of Durham

"Democratic Accountability and Models of Governance: producer/provider, owner/trustee"
Colin Campbell, Georgetown University

"Is Democracy a Substitute for Ethics: Administrative Reform and Accountability?"
Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh

"Courts, Parliament and Public Authorities under the British Human Rights Act 1998"
George Szablowski, York University, Toronto

"The Inherently Unethical Nature of Public Service Ethics"
Lawrence Pratchett, De Montfort University

"Parliament and ethical behaviour"
Michael Hunt, Sheffield Hallam University

"Between Autonomy and Accountability: Hong Kong's Senior Civil Servants in search of an identity"
Anthony Cheung, City University of Hong Kong

"Ethics, Governance and Constitutions: the case of Baron Haussmann"
John Rohr, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

"Managers and Markets: accountability and responsibility in the contract state"
Martin Painter, University of Sydney

The papers are now being edited by Richard A. Chapman and prepared for publication early next year by Ashgate Publishers. Furtehr details will be included in the next SOG Newsletter.

Richard A. Chapman.