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Strategic planning is a process which allows us to assess whether our organisations, through its mission and policies, can answer three distinct criteria: 1) the challenges, constraints and opportunities of the milieu, 2) the specific competence of our organisations and their resources, and 3) the vision and values of librarians. The analysis was based on a global portrait of public libraries in Québec.
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AbstractOver the past three decades national population policies (NPPs) have been enacted in almost all countries in sub Saharan Africa, with the aim of overcoming demographic problems considered to be critical to development. But these policies have not met with the success that was anticipated. This study investigates their lack of effectiveness in respect of control of demographic growth, decline in morbidity and mortality, and improvements in the geographical distribution of population and the conditions of the poorest. After a historical overview of the emergence of population policy in sub Saharan Africa and a summing up of the current position, the author approaches the issue of poor performance through the framework of analysis of public policy, showing that the factors accounting for the lack of success of NPPs have more to do with their inappropriate content and strategies than with the features usually invoked in administrative evaluations. The argument is that shedding light on these questions and on the prospects for improving population policies in sub Saharan Africa can be achieved through evaluative research into NPPs contributing to their re-foundation. NPPs could then serve as the basis for development of new and more effective social policies at regional and national levels.
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AbstractA lot of research has been devoted so far to analyze the impact of ownership on firm performance. This study highlights the potential measurement selection bias of this research as a result of public and private firms pursuing different objectives. We review the literature on ownership comparison and identify situations where we believe the measurement bias is deemed to be more critical. We then evaluate the impact on the empirical evidence. Overall, the study suggests that the differences in the objectives between public and private firms are important in order to explain the differences in their performance.
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This article reviews the condition of public libraries in Québec at the end of the nineteenth century. The Liberal political élite of the day had hoped that public libraries would keep pace with the development of libraries elsewhere in North America. The politicians made timid progress, fearful of the religious authorities. After the fall of the Mercier government in 1891, a conservative and ultramontane backlash swept aside the Liberal initiatives with respect to public libraries.
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This article focuses on the ideological orientation of governments undertaking reforms to social and health policies in OECD countries. It assembles a new dataset based on 21 countries from 1970 to 2019 and proposes a new index of decommodification for health care. Based on the idea of sharing and concentrating social risks, this article shows how the ideology of political parties have more impact on social policies than health policies. Contrary to our hypothesis, parties on the right are not more likely to favour reforms that open more space to private care in the health system, outside of the United States where a strong partisan polarization is found. A government's ideology doesn't exert any additional influence on reforms to national health care systems, where the State can more easily impose changes, as compared to insurance-based systems.
Keywords: idéologie, politiques de santé, politiques sociales, privatisation, systèmes de santé, Ideology, health policies, social policies, privatization, health care systems, ideología, políticas de salud, políticas sociales, privatización, sistemas de salud
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The Centres régionaux de services aux bibliothèques publiques (CRSBP) have replaced the Bibliothèques centrales de prêt (BCP). The mission of this new regional organisation was enshrined in the law creating the ministère de la Culture, proclaimed in December 1992. The following article outlines the current situation as well as the major events in the evolution of the affiliated libraries. The continued development of communication networks and the hiring of qualified personnel in local and regional organisations is critical.
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In France, the development of new technologies and the reorganization of the country have given rise to critical reflection and new questions about the very meaning of the profession of librarian, which has been assigned several important roles at once. What do public reading librarians think about this ? Do they really feel that they are key players in the socio-cultural development of their area ? This article provides some initial answers to these questions by combining theoretical considerations with data analysis. Firstly, it describes the literature review that highlights the specific nature of public reading libraries, while underlining the complexity of the librarian's job. Next, the article analyses and discusses the results of an exploratory qualitative survey of public reading librarians in three metropolitan areas in France, which confirms a genuine attachment to their missions and reveals how they feel about their participation in territorial development. In the conclusion, which links the theoretical reflection and data analysis with the problematic, the article provides food for thought that could help librarians to better position themselves in the territory.