Répertoire méthodique du fonds de l’Intendance particulière du Faucigny (1605-1793)
by Rémy Verdo
Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie et Institut national du patrimoine, 2012, 194 p. Bientôt accessible sur le site des Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie (http://archives.cg74.fr/).
Les fonds d'Intendances sardes d'Ancien Régime conservés aux Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie avaient été... more Les fonds d'Intendances sardes d'Ancien Régime conservés aux Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie avaient été péniblement réunis puis classés entre 1867 et 1922, donnant lieu en 1923 à un inventaire où le principe primordial de respect des fonds sacrifiait à une logique thématique malheureuse. Précédé d'une introduction historique détaillée et assorti d'annexes destinées à faciliter le travail des chercheurs, ce nouvel instrument de recherche présente, pour la seule Intendance particulière du Faucigny, des descriptions remises aux normes et une réflexion proprement archivistique permettant de dégager plusieurs fonds indûment mêlés à celui de l'Intendance.
Els professors d'institut al segle XIX
Se trata de una conferencia en el VI Congrés d'Història de l'educació que se encuentra en prensa. El texto está colgado a modo de borrador para su consulta. La mayoría de información referida se encuentra en mi libro: "Un título para las clases medias" y la formación del profesorado es tratado con más extensión.
Download (.pdf) Mary Livermore A Legacy of Caring and Cooperative Womanhood
Published in Outstanding Women in Public Administration: Leaders, Mentors and Pioneers. 2004. Edited by Claire Felbinger and Wendy Haynes. New York: ME Sharpe
This paper highlights the life and contributions of Mary Livermore a Civil War nurse and public administrator. It also... more This paper highlights the life and contributions of Mary Livermore a Civil War nurse and public administrator. It also discusses the US Sanitary Commission and its enormous role during the Civil War. Women ran the relief arm of the Sanitary Commission, which was the largest disaster relief effort ever undertaken in the United States. Mary Livermore ran the Chicago Branch of the USSC.
The role of the judicial decisions made by Supreme Administrative Tribunal in the shaping and developement of the rules of administrative procedure
Original title 'Rola Orzecznictwa Najwyższego Trybunału Administracyjnego w kształtowaniu i rozwoju procesowego prawa administracyjnego'; published in 'Zeszyty Naukowe Sądownictwa Administracyjnego' 5(26)/2009, pp. 55-74.
In the period preceding the issuing of the Regulation on Administrative Proceedings in 1928 in Poland lacked complete... more
In the period preceding the issuing of the Regulation on Administrative Proceedings in 1928 in Poland lacked complete uniform regulation of the procedural administrative law. The scarce and diverse provisions regulating that area were scattered amongst many acts coming from the period of the Partitions and complicated the effective protection of the individuals' rights.
In the then prevailing circumstances the Supreme Administrative Tribunal established in 1922 played a special role. Passing judgements and decisions the SAT not only ensured the due and proper application of the relevantregulations but by way of creative interpretation deriving the means from the goals it formulated the individual principles of proceeding before public administration authorities and enforced them as if they were the element of the generally aplicable legal order. This consecutive stages of the proceedings: the obligation to ensure that parties may actively participate in the explanatory proceedings warranting the objective nature of the evidence, the obligation to justify the decision including the factual and legal basis and the obligation to provide the parties with that decision in writing. All these obligations were suposed to ensure that the parties were able to exercise their right to bring an appeal and a complaint to the administrative court.
The SAT delimitated the durability of administrative decisions specifying when and how they might be reversed or changed.
Working in difficult circumstances the SAT, being the guardian of individuals' interests, was able to balance the conflicting interests, consistently and steadily inspired the legislator who in the Regulation issued in 1928 included many opinions presented in the SAT's decisions.
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Contemporary Vestiges of the Early 1900s’ Municipal "Budget Exhibit"
Williams, D., Lee, M. (2008). Déjà Vu All Over Again: Contemporary Vestiges of the Early 1900s’ Municipal "Budget Exhibit". American Review of Public Administration, 38(2), 203-224. arp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/2/203
Compilation des nouvelles et écriture de l'actualité à Venise au XVIe siècle
published in 'Hypothèses 2009. Travaux de l’école doctorale", Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010, p. 73-82.
"No longer at ease" - Corruption in West Africa
with Dmitri van den Bersselaar (2011) International Journal of Public Administration 34,11
DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2011.598272
Presented at the colloquium "Bureaucracy, Corruption and Accountability in Historical Perspective" at the University of Liverpool, October 2010
Alternative access to paper at:
http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/16143/
Abstract: This article traces the historical genesis of corruption in two West African countries: Ghana and Nigeria.... more
Abstract: This article traces the historical genesis of corruption in two West African countries: Ghana and Nigeria. It argues that corruption in Africa is an institution that emerged in direct response to colonial systems of rule which superimposed an imported institutional system with different norms and values on an existing institutional landscape, despite the fact that both deeply conflicted and contradicted each other. During decolonization and after independence, corruption, although dysfunctional, fully evolved into an institution that allowed an uneasy cohabitation of colonial and domestic African institutions to grow into a composite, syncretic system facilitated by generalized corruption.
Key words: corruption, institutional theory, colonial rule, decolonization, Ghana, Nigeria
Compter : l’invention de la statistique des fonctionnaires en France (1890–1930)
by Émilien Ruiz
in Philippe Bezes & Odile Join-Lambert (dir.), «Comment se font les administrations», Sociologie du Travail, 52(2), avril-juin 2010, pp. 212-233
Civil servant statistics in France were invented on the margins of the state during the period from 1890 to 1930. This... more Civil servant statistics in France were invented on the margins of the state during the period from 1890 to 1930. This invention came out of activist and/or professional rationales that were desynchronized with the drafting or application of polices for reducing the number of government employees. There were three successive phases. At the dawn of the xxth century, civil servants were counted in order to inveigh against “functionarism” and “depopulation”. During the decade before World War I, counting them was a matter of improving the expertise of statisticians. Between the two World Wars, sharp cuts were made in personnel, while civil service statistics were held in abeyance. By focusing on how civil servant statistics have been produced and used, the approach proposed herein sheds new light on a persistent but paradoxical discourse in France that ignores how many civil servants there are while claiming that there are too many.
