Setting the scene: keynote speeches Remedies for misgovernment: changing the mix, but not the ingredients? - Christopher Hood Ethics in the public service - current issues and practice - Maria Maguire New public management in the flemish administration: new ethical and political dimensions for civil servants - Jos Van Rillaer Working group on responsibility Report of the working group on responsibility - Mark Bovens e Andrews Massey Towards reflexive responsibility. New ethics for public administration - Barbel Dorbeck-jung Les reformes comptables et budgetaire et la responsabilisation des agents de l'etat en france et en Grande-Bretagne - Raphaelle Fabre Vers une refonte du regime de la responsabilite des fonctionnaires en Belgique? - Odile Daurmont Fuzzy in theory and getting fuzzier in practice: post-modern reflections on responsibility in public administration and management - Wayne Parsons Working group on transparency and service to the public Report of the working group on transparency, openness and service to the public - Werner Jann and Bernard Hubeau Political and administrative innovations as a social project. The Belgian case - Rudolf Maes The impact of performance management on transparency and accountability in the public sector - Christoph Reichard Barometre de qualite dans le cadre de la charte belge des utilisateurs des services publics - Patrick Staes The gatekeepers of the common good power and the public service ethos - David Richards e Martin J. Smith Working group on integrity Report of the working group on integrity - Bertrand De Clercq e Gyula Gulyas The civil servant, society and the citizen and in quest of good ethical behaviour - Philippe Vermeulen Searching for a set of values in the ethical behaviour of the public sector - Luiz Montanheiro Moral powerlessness in relations of subordination. Moral responibility and organisational culture - Koen Raes Nouvelles perspectives de la lutte contre les conflits d 'interets dans la fonction publique francaise - Didier Jean-Pierre The recent debate on curbing political corruption - Katrien Robben Reports of the EGPA permanent study groups Report of the study group on agriculture - J. Chr. Van dalen Report of the stydy group on informatization in public administration - Ignace Snellen y Wim Van de Donk Report of the study group on personnel policy - David Farnham, Sylvia Horton e Annie Hondeghem Report of the study group on quality and productivity in the public services - Geert Bouckaert and Hilkka Summa Report of the study group on public budgeting and accounting - Mihaly Hogye e Francisca Sabbe Report of the study group on co-operation in continuing education, training, reserch and consulting between eastern and western europe - Gyorgy Jenei L'evolution de la contractualisation dans le secteur public depuis 1980 - Yvonne Fortin and Hugo Van Hassel Selection of papers of the permanent study groups related to the conference theme Risks in value for money related performance measurement - Jarmo Vakkuri e Pentti Meklin Contracting in the public services: the case of transport in the UK - Enid Wistrich About EGPA The organisation, its objectives and activities Publiations of EGPA