Reaffirming public-service values and professionalism

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-308

  Kamto, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ II   (Cameroon)

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EID: 7944229144     PISSN: 00208523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002085239706300302     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. This premise was broadly borne out by several national reports on values and professionalism presented at the 1996 Beijing conference of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences. Some of these articles are included in this volume in edited form and they are available from the Institute.
2. See the report by Bénoît Ndi Zambo, "The African Civil Service: A Crisis of Cultural Identity - The Case of The Cameroons', this issue, pp. 345-61.
3. See report by A.R.H. Rachid, 'Loyalty of the Bureaucracy in Egypt', available from the IIAS.
4. See report by Tyabo Clojede, 'Effects of Sociocultural Values on Public Service Ethics', available from the IIAS.
5. See report by Yan Geng, 'The Professional Values and the New Appraisal System of the Chinese Civil Service', available from the IIAS.
6. See Journal do Brazil (4 June 1992): 11.
7. See Le Point (France) (18 June 1994): 17.
8. L'Evènement du Jeudi (France) (1994).
9. See inter alia recent works on corruption of the political classes in France by Yves Meny, La corruption de la République (Paris: Fayard, 1994).
10. See Philippe Simonnot, 'Eloge de la corruption', Enjeux les Echos (Sept., 1994): 66.
11. See Jean Cartier-Bresson, 'Eléments pour une économie de la corruption', Tiers Monde XXXIII (31, July-Sept., 1992).
12. See Judgement 560 handed down by the Administrative Court of the United Nations in June 1992 in the Claxton case cited by Yves Beigbeder in 'Challenging the Administrative Values of the United Nations Organizations', this issue, pp. 335-44.
13. According to an annual league table produced by an American association, Transparency International, reproduced by the Cameroon newspaper La Nouvelle Expression on 6 August 1996.
14. Report presented in Libération (France) (1 February, 1995): 12.
15. Similar expressions exist in various other African countries to denote the idea of corruption: 'Egunje' in Nigeria, 'kalabule' in Ghana, 'Wakeni-Wako' in Zambia, 'Bakshish' in Sudan, 'Gombo' in Cameroon, etc.
16. See the articles by Christian De Brie in Le Monde Diplomatique, 1994.
17. See Cartier-Bresson, op. cit. note 11.
18. A typical example is the recruitment into the Cameroon administration of several waves of graduates of higher education (1500 to 1700 per wave) between 1980 and 1986, which was christened 'operation 1500'.
19. Such as swelling the ranks of the civil service with state employees subject to the labour laws by the massive recruitment of young people with no vocational training (such as the previously mentioned 'operation 1500' in Cameroon), and giving public-official status to employees with employment contracts similar to those in the private sector.
20. See report by Carmen Vila Miranda, 'Civil Servants in Spain as a Basis for Professionalism in the Public Administration', available from the IIAS.
21. See report by Abdulrahman A. Higan, 'The Professional Values of Bureaucrats in Saudi Arabia', available from the IIAS.
22. Albert du Roy, 'La justice verrouillée', L'Evènement du Jeudi. (1-7 Aug., 1996): 3.
23. This can be seen in particular in all of the African countries and the former communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe, as well as in the so-called emerging countries of Asia and Latin America.
24. See, in particular, Georges Burdeau, Traité de Science Politique (Political Science Essay), Vol. 1, 2nd edn. pp. 85 et seq.
25. See report by Thomas D. Lynch and Peter Cruise (Paris Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence), 'Secularization of Public Administration', available from the IIAS.
26. Jacques Chevallier, 'Réflexions sur l'idéologie de l'intérêt général' (Reflections on the Ideology of the General Interest) in Variations autour de l'idéologie de l'intérêt général. Vol. 1 (Paris: PUF, 1978) p. 11.
27. Chevallier, op. cit. note 26, p. 12.
28. Chevallier, op. cit. note 26, p. 12.
29. Chevallier, op. cit. note 26, p. 12.
30. For Pakistan, for example, see the report by A.R. Jafri, 'The Challenge of a Cultural Crisis to Public Administration in Pakistan', available from the IIAS.
31. See the report by Jean-Pierre Didier, 'Re-affirming Ethics and Professionalism in the French Public Service', forthcoming issue of IRAS.
32. See the report of Yves Beigbeder, 'Challenging the Administrative Values of the United Nations Organizations', this issue, pp. 335-44.
33. For example, the 'Public Service Commission' in Zimbabwe, the 'Code of Conduct Bureau' in Nigeria, 'Commission of Enforcement of Leadership Code' in Tanzania and 'Haute Autorité de la Fonction Publique' in certain French-speaking African countries, such as Benin.
34. Similar institutions exist in France (Médiateur de la République), Belgium (Médiateur), the Scandinavian countries (Ombudsman) and several African countries: Nigeria, Uganda, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Senegal and South Africa.