IPMN Newsletter 2002

Number 1

Dear Members of IPMN:

The latest issue of the International Public Management Review, IPMN's e-journal, is now published on the IPMN website (www.inpuma.net). The table of contents for vol. 2, no. 2 is shown below. As Senior Editor, I welcome your comments on this issue and on IPMR in general. Past issues of IPMR are available at http://www.impr.net.

IPMN WEBSITE ADDRESS CHANGE
Please note an important change for IPMN. The website address for IPMN has changed. It was ww.willamette.org/ipmn. It is now www.inpuma.net. This change was made to make it easier to access
the IPMN website. The old website address will direct you to the new address automatically.

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
Volume 2, Number 2, 2001
TABLE OF CONTENTS

The files of IPMR are all in Acrobat PDF format.
 


Comment from the Editor

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The Logistics of Learning: Strategies for Teaching a Part-Time
Graduate Program in Public Management
ROB LAKING
1

Public Management for the New Millennium: Developing
Relevant and Integrated Professional Curricula
L. R. JONES, FRED THOMPSON and WILLIAM ZUMETA
19

Trends of Administrative Reform in Europe: Towards
Administrative Convergence?
MICHALOPOULOS NIKOS
39

Fiscal Preferences and Fiscal Performance: Swiss Cantonal Evidence
BERNARD DAFFLON and FRANCESC PUJOL
54
IPMN 2002 SIENA CONFERENCE

The program for the IPMN Siena 2002 conference, to be hosted from June 26 to 28, 2002 at La Certosa di Pontignano monastery in the beautiful Tuscan countryside outside of Siena, Italy is nearing completion. We are pleased with the fine response to our call for papers. We have a strong program and group of speakers for the conference, our eighth IPMN event. The details of the final program agenda will be announced soon by conference coordinators Kuno Schedler, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and Riccardo Mussari,
University of Siena, Italy.

PAST AND FUTURE IPMN CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS


For both new and long-term members of IPMN, below is a list of previous IPMN conference and workshop events by location and host sponsor, with future events tentatively planned also included.

St. Gallen, Switzerland Conference (host sponsor Kuno Schedler) 1996
Potsdam, Germany Workshop (host sponsor Christoph Reichard) 1997
Salem, Oregon Conference (host sponsor Fred Thompson) 1998
Siena Workshop (host sponsor Riccardo Mussari) 1999
Sydney Conference (host sponsors James Guthrie and Peter Steane) 2000
Wellington, New Zealand Workshop (host sponsor Rob Laking) 2000
Odense, Denmark Workshop (host sponsor Kurt Klaudi Klausen) 2001
Siena Conference (host sponsor Riccardo Mussari) 2002
Xi'an, China Conference (tentatively scheduled) 2003
Bangkok, Thailand Workshop (tentatively scheduled) 2004
Vancouver, Canada Conference (tentatively scheduled) 2005
Monterey, California Workshop (to be scheduled)
Kauai, Hawaii Workshop (to be scheduled)

Best Regards to All for the New Year,
Larry Jones
IPMN Coordinator

IPMN Coordinators:

Lawrence R. Jones
IPMN Coordinator
Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, NPS
Monterey, California, USA

Kuno Schedler
IPMN Coordinator
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Michael Barzelay
IPMN Coordinator
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Sandford F. Borins
IPMN Coordinator
University of Toronto, Canada

Riccardo Mussari
IPMN Coordinator
University of Siena, Italy

Fred Thompson
IPMN Coordinator
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA

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