BOISVERT, Yves <br/><br/>
L´imaginaire éthique des réspondants du réseau gouvernemental québécois en matière d´éthique 

 - Toronto :  IPAC,  Spring 2005 
<br/><br/> Countries of the OECD have established “codes of conduct” for public servants.  Do these codes have a determining effect on how ethics are applied?  Our research project, funded by the Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor of the Government of Quebec, allowed us to explore what is called the Réseau des répondants en éthique, a network of ethics consultants.  When we analysed field survey responses, we found a parallel between the ways the network respondents defined ethics (a primarily self-regulated conception) and how they perceived the roles they were expected to play.  We also found that there is a disjunction between the respondents’ perception of ethics and the trend of regulation-by-others.  One of the causes of this change in mentality would appear to be that Quebec’s ethics consultants have adopted an ethical reflection model that distinguishes between ethics and codes of conduct