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This article examines integrity management initiatives designed to introduce more value-based elements in public bureaucracies. Incorporating value-based practices, which emphasize the personal ethical responsibilities of individual public servants, into a hierarchical, rule-based system may present difficult organizational problems. A central issue is to determine whether any change has actually occurred or whether the organization is simply functioning as it did previously. In addition, there are problems of implementation: new value-based initiatives may conflict with the pre-existing system; they may not be adequately reflected in training programs; and there may be differential impacts on departments and agencies. We analyze problems in this new organizational mix in a classical Weberian bureaucracy, the Hong Kong civil service. The findings are based on a 2011–2012 administrative ethics survey of 355 senior public servants, a separate survey of 70 Ethics Officers, and semi-structured interviews with 32 senior public servants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Este artículo pretende leer La vida es sueño contra el trasfondo epistemológico de la cambiante percepción de la naturaleza física del universo y la cuestión de la legitimidad de la físicamatemática para describirla, que tanto debate provocaba en las primeras décadas del siglo XVII. La obra maestra de Calderón se construye en diálogo crítico con este contexto filosófico, pues Basilio es tanto astrólogo como matemático. El desengaño final del Rey demuestra que el nuevo determinismo científico que se extendía cada vez más en la época, exagera la capacidad del hombre para interpretar de manera matemática, es decir, empírica y conclusiva, tanto los grandes signos celestiales como las más cotidianas señales de identidad personal. De esta manera, La vida es sueño desarrolla una semiótica inestable y dependiente de múltiples variables en constante proceso de cambio, realzando así la necesidad de una filosofía moral basada en la recta razón escolástica y capaz de abarcar todas las peripecias de una vida caótica y contingente. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author discusses the Baptist understanding of the nature of the ordained ministry and the history of the sources of authority on the subject that have come down through the years. The article also discusses the practice of an ordained Baptist minister in the present. Although most Baptists in North America today use the process of ordination for their ministers, the process is considered to be an installation procedure rather than a sacramental event. Historically, Baptists have always espoused the belief that all Christians, clergy and laity, are priests and share in the ministry of the church.

The article presents the first part of an exploration into the history of ordination and its theological interpretations in the Baptist tradition from the Reformation to the 20th century. An overview is given of the general views on clergy in Protestantism as contrasted with Roman Catholicism. The initial reforms and distinctions made by theologians Martin Luther and John Calvin are addressed. Further developments of the concept of ordination during the following centuries are also charted citing the views of Edward T. Hiscox, Andrew Fuller, and John Gill.

The article analyzes the health policy in Hong Kong, China. It discusses the economic and political context and significant features of the policy development process in the field of health care. It employs the residual/institutional model of policy analysis in examining the four health policy domains of hospitals, primary health care, Chinese medicine and occupational health and safety. It describes some of the changes in health care policy in the region and predicts the direction to which it is likely to take during the 1990s.