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The Regional Groups of the Australian Institute of Public Administration invite entries for a National Essay Competition to be decided in 1981. Subject to the rules of the competition, there will be a first prize of $300 and a second prize of $150. The Sir George Murray medal will also be awarded to the winner of the first prize.

POLITICAL SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVOTED A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF ATTENTION TO DEVISING VARIOUS MEASURES OR CLASSIFICATORY SCHEMES OF STATE INTERPARTY COMPETITION. THESE ENDEAVORS SERVED A USEFUL HEURISTIC PURPOSE AND ASSISTED IN CHARACTERIZING THE COMPLEXION OF STATE INTERPARTY COMPETITION, TWO FUNCTIONS SIGNIFICANT ESPECIALLY IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF THE LITERATURE OF STATE PARTIES.

Dans sa théorie du comportement social, Georges Homans se sert de certaines présuppositions qui proviennent de la théorie economique et que se rapportent aux activites des individus. Cet article examine le concept de competition sociale en utilisant comme point de départ la theorie de la conduite sociale, mais en accordant une attention speciale au phénomene de la compétition, tel qu'il se mani‐feste sur le marche dans le sens de la théorie économique. L'analyse souligne quelques unes des limitations qui viennent restreindre la portée de la théorie du comportement social d'Homans lorsqu'elle s'applique à l'analyse de la compétition.In his theory of social behaviour, Homans makes use of certain assumptions taken from elementary economic theory concerning the activities of individuals. In this paper, the concept of social competition is examined using the theory of social behaviour as a basis, but with special reference to competition as it might occur in a "market" in the economic theory sense. The analysis indicates certain conceptual limitations and qualifications which ought to be placed on Homans' theory of social behaviour when applied to the analysis of competition.

Medicare expenditures increased 497 percent, federal medicaid expenditures 484 percent, and state and local medicaid expenditures 458 percent between 1970 and 1981. Private health‐insurance premiums increased 329 percent, while patient direct payments rose 214 percent.1 Although these results include quantity and price changes, Waldo and Gibson (1982) show that "price inflation has been a major factor in the increase in health‐care spending." Moreover, health‐care expenditures exceeded 10 percent of GNP (10.5 percent) for the first time in 1982 (Office of the Secretary 1983); the comparable figure in 1960 was 5.3 percent of GNP.This rapid growth in price and quantity ("expenditures" or "costs"in the nontechnical literature) has raised a cry across the land for cost containment or increased competition in the health‐care sector. Curiously, when one searches for a definition of "competition" in the same nontechnical literature, it is not immediately obvious what the word means.