Meeting DETAILS of Conference Program  
for the  17th NISPAcee Annual Conference

    Program Overview
Thursday, May 14, 2009            14:00 - 15:30
Panel on Integrity in Local Authority Areas 
Room Crnojevic Room Hotel Splendid - Hall of Dynasties
Related to Panel on Integrity in Local Authority Areas 
WG Programme Coordinators:
  Armenia Androniceanu, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Thomas Wurm, DBB Akademie, Bonn, Germany

Panel discussions will be focused on few very sensitive topics: ethical dimension of the public policy process, the decentralization’s impact on the corruption phenomenon in the public administration, the ethics from the socio/cultural perspective and other subjects raised by the participants.

It will be an open discussion where the participants will be kindly invited to intervene for presenting experiences, examples and successfully ethic’s guidelines from their countries. We encourage the dialog with the participants for discovering the best practices for increasing the integrity of the public organizations, which institutions succeed in curbing corruption in one country or another.

During the discussions we will try to identify how the education, in general or the special training programs , in particular can influence the changing of the human resources behaviors for a more ethical one and how the results could be measured in time.

Our panel will be a discussion’s frame for exchanging best practice experiences with practitioners and engaged scholars for setting up an integrated action plan containing the most successful actions and institutions from different countries for fighting against corruption. 




Papers:
Paper: The ethical dimension of the public policies process in the Romanian public sector
Florin Marius Popa, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Paper: The impact of decentralization on the corruption phenomenon
Sherman Wyman, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States
Rod Erakovich, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, United States
Paper: Social role of public organization ethics building in local governance in the Balkans