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Concepts et techniques d'analyse des phénomènes administratifs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Lionel Ouellet
Lionel Ouellet
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Université Laval
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Abstract

Concepts and Analytical Techniques of Administrative Phenomena

Among the phenomena inherent in administrative activities, four key categories may be distinguished: (1) the “duties” of the administration which give rise to whole families of activities and operations; (2) administrative “roles” which facilitate execution of these duties and provide the functional means for their execution; (3) administrative “organs” or institutions, charged with exercising the executive powers and which organize the agents assuming various administrative roles; and (4) the administrative “process” or information exchange circuits which inter-connect administrative duties, roles, and organs.

It is argued that the roles emerge from the type of operation, that the organs are, in several forms, postulated by the types of roles, and that the administrative processes are brought into being by the differing outcomes of the work of the administrative organs. We have here the embryo of a structural-functional theory of administration.

The thesis is presented throughout as a method of analysing the organization and operation of administrative institutions and as a means which may be used for reforming them. Such an analytical system could serve as a bridge facilitating comparative analysis of different administrative institutions and as the administrative element of a general theory of politics.

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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 1968 , pp. 310 - 335
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1968

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References

1 A. Gelinas et Y. Tremblay : L'activité gouvernementale, Cahier I–2 de la série « Inventaire et méthodologie », Planification du développement régional, BEAR (COEQ).

2 Ce concept de rôle administratif, de notre invention, est cependant inspiré de la théorie politique dite « fonctionnaliste ». Cf. Bergeron, , Fonctionnement de l'Etat (Paris, 1965).Google Scholar Voir Aussi notre conclusion.

3 Pour une discussion plus approfondie de ce type de phénomenès administratifs, voir Mehl, Lucien, « Pour une théorie cybernétique de l'action administrative », Traité de science administrative (Paris, 1965), 781–833.Google Scholar Voir aussi notre conclusion.

4 « Pour une théorie cybernétique de l'action administrative. »