Items of News
| Date | 01 September 1979 |
| Published date | 01 September 1979 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002085237904500313 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
ITEMS
OF
NEWS
CANADA
From
27
to
31
May
1979,
the
Ecole
natio-
nale
d’administration
publique
du
Qu6bee
organized,
in
that
City,
a
large
International
Conference
on
the
Future
of
Public
Admin-
istration.
There
were
over
a
thousand
dele-
gates
of
whom
more
than
half
were
from
the
Province,
with
good
numbers
from
the
other
Provinces
of
Canada
and
from
abroad.
IIAS
was
represented
by
the
Director
General,
Mr.
Guy
Braibant.
The
organization
was
excellent,
and
the
varied
and
substantial
activities
in-
cluded
three &dquo;
plenary
sessions &dquo;
and
twelve
series
of
&dquo;
program
sessions &dquo;.
The
plenary
sessions
were
devoted
to
the
consideration
of
the
following
subjects,
each
described
or
introduced
by
two
speakers :
Bureaucracy
and
Society
(Mr.
Michel
Crozier,
France,
and
Mr.
Alan
K.
Campbell,
United
States);
Management
in
the
Public
Sector
(Mr.
Albert
T6vo6djr6,
Institut
international
d’études
sociales,
and
Mr.
Frangois
Bloch-Laîné,
Fran-
ce) ;
and
Post-Industrial
Society
and
the
Future
of
Public
Administration
(Mr.
Guy
Rocher,
Canada,
and
Mr.
Irving
L.
Horowitz,
United
States).
The
program
sessions
were
divided
into
twelve
sections
which
often
met
simultaneously
and
at
a
fair
distance
from
one
another,
so
that
some
delegates
found
it
difficult
to
decide
which
topic
to
attend.
Section
I
continued
the
analysis
of
Bureau-
cracy
and
Society,
dealing
with
the
relations
between
public
administrators
and
interest
groups,
communications
between
administrators
and
their
publics,
and
whether
public
bureau-
cracies
are
inescapable.
Section
II
was
on
Management
in
the
Public
Sector:
is
bureaucracy
the
only
way?;
the
public
manager,
his
values
and
attitudes;
the
interface
between
the
political
and
administra-
tive
roles.
Section
III
dealt
with
Comparative
Public
Administration :
responses
to
new
problems
in
public
administration,
public
management
in
federal
States,
new
institutional
changes,
tech-
nological
changes
and
administrative
reform,
as
also
problems
and
new
trends
of
compara-
tive
analysis.
Section
IV
on
Public
Administration
and
International
Development
examined
several
aspects
of
administration
in
developing
coun-
tries :
accomplishments
and
failures,
reper-
cussions
of
the
socio-political
and
cultural
environments,
the
perspectives
and
method-
ology
involved
in
administrative
reforms,
and
the
strategies
and
challenges
for the
1980s.
International
cooperation
in
public
manage-
ment
was
also
discussed.
Section
V
covered
a
rather
vast
topic,
Public
Administration
and
Public
Policy,
public
opinion
with
regard
to
public
policy
and
legis-
lative
power
concerning
the
latter,
the
role
of
planning,
&dquo;
concertation
&dquo;,
and
central
agencies
and
the
setting
of
priorities.
Section
VI
was
basically
concerned
with
Planning
and
Forecasting
in
Public
Organiza-
tions :
methods
involved
in
forecasting,
exper-
iences
of
public
administration
forecasting,
the
prospects
of
social
indicators,
and
the
introduction
and
management
problems
of
energy
policies.
Section
VII,
on
Program
Evaluation
in
the
Public
Sector,
followed
along
similar
lines,
defining
the
role
of
evaluation,
its
impact
and
effectiveness,
and
the
difficulties
involved.
Section
VIII
examined
Management
Systems
in
Public
Administration
and
attempted
to
approach
a
difficult
problem
practically,
with
an
analysis
of
results
and
prospects
in
the
Canadian
Federal
and
Qu6bec
Governments,
as
also
of
the
impact
of
zero-base
budgeting
in
the
United
States
public
administration
and
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