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From the colonial period until today, the media environment is growing at a rapid pace. It is first the press (written) and then the audiovisual. If from the point of view of the written press the contradiction is possible, the audiovisual sector remains a mystery. In other words, La Première (yesterday) or RTI 1 (since 2011) and Radio Côte d'Ivoire remain the private patrimonies of the governor. The monopolization and use of these media by the government raises real ethical problems. This article aims to highlight the ethical issues related to public media that influence democracy, to give the position of citizens face to their media. In short, let us say that democracy will remain a challenge or an ideal, because propaganda and large-scale manipulation are conflicting factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cette réflexion se veut une analyse du contexte politique actuel de la RDC à la lumière des principes politiques de la pensée de Weil. Si l'on part de la conviction selon laquelle la politique est née de la volonté de rejeter la violence due à la bousculade des intérêts empiriques, alors on se ravisera tout de suite que le recours à la rationalité morale demeure la solution antichoc aux dérives d'une politique « sans âme » qu'on observe depuis bien longtemps en RDC. Le haut risque que l'on se pressera à déplorer ici, c'est l'individualisme en politique, la relativité de la loi et la fragilisation des structures politiques et économiques. Ces écarts politiques sont tributaires du déficit de la rationalité morale dans l'espace politique congolais. La classe politique se considère, contre toute évidence, comme une finalité de son action. La préoccupation de cet écrit s'avère une incitation à remoraliser la sphère politique qui paraît très polluée par les passions de divers ordres et en marge de toute rationalité telle que le recommande Weil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A central problem of the actual political ethics is to fit the means to the justified ethical goals. In our case, it is the situation when, for rescuing the civil population from a state affected by a civil war or another military conflict, the donor must utilize a certain military means. What is our view about the goals of the humanitarian aid and why this political action is more and more perceived as harmful? Our thesis is that is a common moral responsibility of the donors and the receivers for both the means and the goals of the humanitarian aid and we cannot assume that only a part is responsible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The administrative discretion of civil servants is a central topic in public administration literature. Some authors view it as necessary and beneficial, while other researchers see it is a source of widespread abuse. However, reforms inspired by the 'new public management' taking place in a number of public administrations are promoting greater managerial flexibility. In parallel with these modernization initiatives directed at administration, scandals continue to shake politico-administrative life, and ethical issues are increasingly at the heart of public action. It is within this context that we question the relationship between an increasing managerial discretion and the development of an ethics infrastructure. Which areas are at risk? Can ethics help overcome the potential abuses of power? How do managers perceive their ability to be flexible and the role of ethics in their work? How do you implement the ethical requirements developed in various standards documents? These are the principal themes addressed in this article that presents the findings of a qualitative case study conducted in a Quebec ministry in 2008-2009. Our results show that, contrary to what promoters of the new public management claim, managers have little, if any, discretionary power in matters of financial management. Their actions and decisions are strictly governed by hierarchical control mechanisms or a computer system. This explains in part why taking ownership of general principles and establishing an ethics infrastructure remain a formal process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author focuses on the issue of relations between ethnic diversity and the process of running the states in context to the building of states in Africa. It mentions the reviews of different political and ethnicity theories, and highlights the recognition of multiculturism process by political ethics.

Romanian cinema is searching for answers that can free Romanians from questions haunting their conscience for decades on end. Contemporary Romanian cinematography owes much to the way this conscience is unveiled. Prisoners of their history, the protagonists of Romanian films are caught in a constant struggle to escape their past, hence the predilection for violence of language and crudeness of the scenes. Three of the films under discussion, The Senator of the Snails, California Dreamin' and 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days are particularly emblematical of this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In a context where an increasing number of governments, in both Europe and North America, are planning to tighten the lobbying rules, the authors focus on the reactions of Quebec lobbyists to the Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act, which was enacted in Quebec in 2002. Based on an examination of close to thirty interviews conducted one year after the enactment of the act, as well as the study of an important corpus of documents, their analysis indicates that the terms of the act, specifically those with reference to the registration in the Registry of Lobbyists, create bureaucratic red tape that makes enforcement of the law unlikely. It is also clear that the act, the main purpose of which is to build the public's trust in those who hold public office and the democratic institutions in which they work, will have presumably very little influence over the public's perception of the integrity of the players in the political sphere, including lobbyists. Furthermore, it would seem that simplifying the registry process, as well as broadening the scope of the legislation's applicability (specifically to include non-profit organizations), would have the effect of increasing the public's level of confidence in the democratic institutions and the players associated with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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