Ensuring ethical decision making in governmental organizations
Nicole de Montricher
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Université de Paris2
Proposal for a SOG panel at the IPSA Congress in Durban, June 29-July 4 2003
Major changes are occuring in the way Governments make decisions in the public interest.
The development of decentralization and the increasing role of citizens and professionals in the direction of public agencies raises the question of the links between public service constraints and professional behaviour. This question is even more problematic in an era of efficiency when the appropriateness of the rule is contested. From this point of view, ethics is taking a crucial importance to integrate public service and individual values with deontological rules.
These new challenges include cooperation between private and public actors as well as international agreements to face the situation and set up the foundations of ethics and values to make decisions in the public interest. The panel will discuss papers considering any aspect of ethical decision making in governmental organizations.
Papers :
- Mark Considine, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Ethics and accountability
- Françoise Dreyfus, Université de Paris1 (France)
Public service privatization and deontology
- B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
The notion of professionalism in the civil service
- Catherine Rudder, University George Mason (USA)
The adequacy of public policy making by private bodies.
- Graham Wilson, University of Wisconsin (USA)
Ethics in environmental policy.
- Panel
link, Durban
