Réduire l'écart entre les identités revendiquées et une identité assignée : des femmes de culture musulmane engagées dans l'espace public québécois

S’appuyant sur la sociologie des relations ethniques et de l’interactionnisme symbolique, ce mémoire vise à analyser la manière dont des femmes de culture musulmane engagées dans l’espace public québécois interagissent avec les stéréotypes par lesquels elles sont caractérisées dans la société, mais auxquels elles disent ne pas correspondre. Partant du postulat qu’il existe un discours dominant ethnicisant qui dépeint les femmes musulmanes comme des êtres « soumis » et « vulnérables », ces femmes engagées se voient assigner une identité dépréciative qu’elles ne partagent pas. Elles perçoivent donc un écart entre leur identité « réelle » qu’elles voudraient se voir reconnaître par autrui et l’identité « attribuée par autrui ». À partir d’entretiens semi-directifs, ce mémoire propose une typologie des femmes de culture musulmane engagées dans l’espace public québécois. Cette typologie permet d’analyser la manière dont celles-ci perçoivent le discours dominant et les réactions qu’il suscite chez elles. Les résultats de cette analyse suggèrent notamment que ces femmes engagées élaborent des stratégies identitaires afin de voir confirmer et renforcer l’identité qu’elles voudraient se voir reconnaître par la société majoritaire. La mise en place de ces stratégies révèle la porosité des frontières ethniques puisque certaines d’entre elles vont adopter des stratégies orientées vers la « similarisation » au majoritaire, alors que d’autres vont chercher à s’en différencier.

Secteur public et développement économique régional : impacts de l'emploi gouvernemental et de la décentralisation

Thèse numérisée par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

La notion de bonne foi dans les immunités législatives au Québec : entre imprécision et redondance

Les immunités législatives pour bonne foi sont une composante importante des règles spécifiques s’appliquant à la responsabilité civile des administrations publiques. Apparues dans les années 1940 au Québec, elles visent à insuffler à la responsabilité civile les considérations propres à l’action étatique (difficulté des tâches, pouvoir discrétionnaire, liberté d’action, etc.). Or, la notion principale de ces immunités, la bonne foi, est d’une nature fragile. Tiraillée entre une vision subjective et objective, elle souffre de nombreuses lacunes. Originalement fondée sur l’évaluation de l’état d’esprit d’une personne, la bonne foi reproduit dorénavant le concept de faute lourde présent en responsabilité civile. Il en résulte un système qui crée de la confusion sur l’état mental nécessaire pour entrainer la responsabilité d’une administration publique. Au surplus, le régime de la bonne foi est variable et change selon les fonctions exercées par les administrations publiques. Ces attributs mettent en exergue le peu d’utilité de cette notion : la bonne foi dédouble plusieurs éléments déjà présents en responsabilité civile québécoise et partant de là, affaiblit sa place comme règle particulière applicable aux administrations publiques. Bref, par son caractère adaptable, la bonne foi est un calque de la responsabilité civile québécoise et son faible apport embrouille le régime de cette dernière.

Engaging Ethical Issues Associated with Research and Public Health Interventions During Humanitarian Crises: Review of a Dialogic Workshop

Compte-rendu / Review

Recruitment And Training Of Managers In The Public Sector Concerns In Kerala

Public undertakings have been assigned a significant role to play in the systematic socio-economic development of India. My interest in the subject was kindled while I was doing my Masters Diploma in Public Administration at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi during 1960-61. It was further strengthened by my teaching of the subject in different courses offered by me at the School of Management Studies and in several programmes organised by various voluntary and training organisations like the Institute of Management in Government, Trivandrum, Centre for Management Development, Trivandrum, etc. The several years in which I served as a member of the faculty in the School of Management Studies, University of Cochin,gave me the opportunity to come into close contact with different public sector concerns and their managers at various levels. This rich opportunity gave me a better insight into the problems faced by these concerns. The present study is a result of the interest so developed.

Das New Public Management als Grundlage für eine effiziente und effektive Verwaltung, untersucht am Beispiel der Verwaltung von Hoima, Uganda

In der Dissertation wird die Möglichkeit untersucht, die deutschen Erfahrungen mit dem New Public Management (NPM) für die Entwicklung der Verwaltung in Uganda nutzbar zu machen. Inhaltlich betrifft die Arbeit 3 Hauptkomponenten: Das NPM als Konzept für die öffentliche Verwaltung, die Erfahrungen mit dem NPM in Deutschland, die Transfermöglichkeit des NPM und insbesondere der deutschen Erfahrungen mit dem NPM nach Uganda, wobei auch die deutschen Erfahrungen mit der Verwaltungshilfe nach dem 1990 erfolgten Beitritt des ehemals sozialistisch verwalteten Gebiets zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland einbezogen werden. Es wird zunächst anhand von Dokumenten ein Vergleich der Verwaltungen in Uganda und in Deutschland vorgenommen, wobei insbesondere auf die in der deutschen Kommunalverwaltung mittlerweile implementierte Variante des NPM eingegangen wird. In diesem Vergleich werden gravierend erscheinende Unterschiede identifiziert. Aus einer Gegenüberstellung der hauptsächlichen Probleme der Verwaltung in Uganda und der hauptsächlichen Stärken des NPM nach den deutschen Erfahrungen wird ein Tableau mit wichtigen Diskrepanzen entwickelt. Zu diesen Diskrepanzen und zu möglichen strategischen Handlungsalternativen werden in Uganda und in Deutschland jeweils 5 hochrangige Verwaltungsexperten in jeweils etwa 1-stündigen Interviews befragt. Die Antworten werden miteinander verglichen und auf markante Gemeinsamkeiten bzw. Unterschiede geprüft. Nach Auswertung der Interviews wird in Verbindung mit den persönlichen Erfahrungen des Verfassers ein strategisches Konzept entwickelt, das aus sieben Einzelschritten besteht. Konkretisiert wird dieses Konzept durch den Vorschlag, eine situationsangemessene Übertragung ausgewählter NPM-Elemente und ausgewählter deutscher Erfahrungen zunächst in Pilotprojekten zu erproben. In einem weiteren zukünftigen Prozess könnten die Erfahrungen aus diesen Pilotprojekten in andere Regionen und auf andere Ebenen der Verwaltung in Uganda transferiert werden.

Strategische Erfolgsfaktoren für ein kosten-risiko-optimales Public Debt Management - Organisatorische und inhaltliche Parameter im internationalen Vergleich

Aus den im Rahmen dieser Forschungsarbeit empirisch gewonnenen Erkenntnissen werden Gestaltungsempfehlungen für das Public Debt Management abgeleitet. Diese zeigen, dass ein wirtschaftliches Public Debt Management nicht ein ausschließlich kostenminimierendes (sparsames), sondern ein kosten-risiko-optimales Public Debt Management mit effektiven internen und externen Überwachungsinstrumenten und wirksamer externer Finanzkontrolle sein muss.

Concessionary nature of public-private partnerships in Russia and Kazakhstan: a critical review

This article provides a critical overview of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Russia and Kazakhstan and examines the rationale underpinning such partnerships. The analysis discusses the reasons why governments in Russia and Kazakhstan focus principally on concessions as a form of PPP and goes on to provide a critical assessment of the key approaches and situational factors relating to concessions in these two countries. The article finds that external globalization impulses pressed Russia and Kazakhstan to align their policies and institutions with western orthodoxy and perceived international best practice. An ever-increasing emphasis on use of PPPs has been a key feature of this alignment. However, the governments of Russia and Kazakhstan have increasingly resorted to concessions as progress with the development and implementation of Western style PPP models has stalled. This article concludes that the governments of Russia and Kazakhstan have demonstrated an overly optimistic approach to PPP and as a result may have substantially understated their overall concessional risks and costs. Features of Russian and Kazakhstani PPP arrangements such as ambiguity in output specification and extensive reliance on government subsidies, combined with lack of expertise of private partners, may significantly decrease concession benefits.

The Development of Swedish Tourism Public Policy 1930-2010

In this article, the development and changes in Swedish public policy relating to tourism from the 1930s to 2010 is described and interpreted from a political economy perspective. A case study, compiled from mainly secondary sources, is analyzed from a theoretical framework based on regulation theory. The purpose with this study is to increase the understanding of how the macro political economy context has influenced the policy-making in tourism in Sweden, but also to make a contribution to an area which seems to be quite neglected when it comes to research. The changes are analyzed according to the three periods denoted as pre-Fordism (mid-19th century-1930s), Fordism (1930s-1970s) and post-Fordism (1970s to present). It is observed how the general changes between these periods regarding aspects such as regulation and deregulation, and the degree of state involvement, have affected tourism policy making. The tourism policy making has changed from being insignificant, to a high degree of state involvement including planning, control and supervision, to a situation where the market rather than government regulation is considered as state of the art. 

Strategic public land use assessment and planning in Victoria : over 30 years of trailblazing but where to from here?

Conflict over the appropriate uses and management of public land have been a feature of the Australian political landscape for at least the past 30 years. While various attempts have been made to establish land use assessment and planning institutions in various jurisdictions, the success of these often short lived attempts at institutional approaches for managing land use conflict have been patchy at best. The experience in the State of Victoria has been somewhat different, with public land use assessment and planning having been informed by a series of independent statutory bodies since 1970 (the Land Conservation, Environment Conservation, and Victorian Environmental Assessment Councils). To some degree at least the value of this approach is indicated by the extent to which Victoria’s bioregions are now protected in conservation reserves. However, while there has always been a statutory body in operation, the roles and responsibilities of these bodies have been subject to significant legislative change, with existing bodies replaced by new bodies in 1997 and 2001. Justifications for these reforms included changing circumstances and new understandings about environmental management, as well as changing views about public administration. As a way of contributing to enhancing the design of institutions for mediating land use conflict and contributing to sustainable land use and management, this paper investigates the lessons that can be learnt from the Victorian experience by examining the implications of the changing roles and responsibilities of these institutions, and then discussing possible future directions for strategic land use planning.

Australia local government and e-governance : from administration to citizen participation

This chapter analyses local government’s response to the pressure to modernise its structures through its use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to execute its broad range of tasks. The chapter begins by discussing Chadwick and May’s (2003) three basic models of e-government; managerial, consultative and participatory. Using data collected from an analysis of 658 local government websites in Australia together with existing survey research the chapter then analyses the extent to which local government sites fit into the three models. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the issues and problems faced by local government in its attempt to develop e-governance as both an extension of administrative as well as democratic functions.

An overview of IT outsourcing in public secto agenices

For the past 15 years, governments in the developed, Western world have been contracting out, or outsourcing, services as a key part of public sector reforms. Outsourcing has been argued to lead to cost savings, improved discipline, better services, access to scarce skills, and the capacity for managers to focus more time on the core business of their organizations (Domberger, 1998). Government outsourcing initiatives have encompassed a range of services, but given the large sums of money invested in IT assets, the outsourcing of IT services (IT outsourcing, or ITO) has been a major initiative for many agencies. Lacity and Willcocks (1998, p. 3) defined ITO as "handing over to a third party [the] management of IS/IT assets, resources and/or activities for required results." For public-sector outsourcing, this handover is usually made by way of a competitive tender. Case studies have reported ITO successes and failures (e.g., Currie & Willcocks, 1998; Rouse & Corbitt, 2003; Willcocks & Currie, 1997; Willcocks & Lacity, 2001; Willcocks & Kern, 1998), but much of the evidence presented to public-sector decision makers to justify this reform is anecdotal and unsystematic, and when investigated in depth, does not necessarily support widespread conclusions.

The new public management in Malaysian public enterprise

The thesis explored New Public Management (NPM) reforms of three Malaysian public enterprises. The finding indicated they differed - privatisation influenced by cronysim; 'quality projects' partially implemented; workforce unchanged. Instead efficiency improvements found were not attributed to NPS. This evidence questions the employability of NPM in a developing economy.