The Commonwealth association for public administration and management. From: Canadian Parliamentary Review | Date: December 22, 1995| Author: Stevenson, Art | COPYRIGHT 1995 Canadian Parliamentary Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This article draws attention to a new Commonwealth association for professional administrators established in August 1994 at a meeting in Charlottetown.

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The new association was created because the forces of globalisation are affecting governments everywhere, and administrators can benefit from increased contacts with their counterparts in other countries. There are already strong networks among academics, but public administration practitioners nee...

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