The International Symposium of Caserta (at the ‘Reale' palace, 23 rd -26 th September 1997) on the topic of ‘Result-based Management in Public Administration and its Educational Implications' has been promoted by the Post-graduate School of Public Administration in Rome, under collaboration with the Planning Studies Centre; the director of this Centre, Prof. Franco Archibugi, full Professor of the same school, was charged with developing the role of the scientific coordinator.

You can find published here the background paper of the Symposium, prepared by Prof. Franco Archibugi.

The following experts, with their relative papers were in attendence at the Symposium.

The proceedings and results of the symposium as well as its participants can be found in the note on the Symposium's ‘results and perspectives (only in Italian)' which was prepared by Prof. Archibugi after the Symposium had been concluded.