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Governance Newsletter, July 2010
  • Free download: Mehta on state spending and governance in India
  • Special offer in July: Subscribe to Governance, get a free book
  • Promoting institutional change abroad: A "tactical approach" yields success in Russian courts
  • Governance jumps to #3 in journal citation rankings
  • Book reviews: Fiscal federalism, Canadian agricultural policy
  • SOG's Berlin conference moved to November 4-5: Updated call for papers
  • Error in April issue of Governance

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Nicole de Montricher receives SOG's Kloeti award

The board of SOG has given the 2010 Ulrich Kloeti Award to Nicole de Montricher of Université de Paris II. The Kloeti award is given in honor of Ulrich Kloeti, a founding member of SOG and its co-chair for ten years. It recognizes scholars who have made exceptional contributions to research in the field through a sustained career. The award nomination credits Professor de Montricher for having "an immense impact on the study of public and administration in France."


Governance Newsletter, June 2010

  • When is policy provision likely to be decentralized?
  • Governance holds London roundtable on effects of financial crisis
  • Book reviews in Governance
  • Access to Governance jumps in 2009
  • News from SOG
    • Next SOG conference to be held in Berlin in November 5-7, 2010
    • Nicole de Montricher receives SOG's Kloeti award
    • New books by SOG members

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Governance Newsletter, May 2010

  • Symposium: Understanding government reform in "Napoleonic" countries
  • Explaining a watershed moment in French public management reform
  • Questioning assumptions about Italy's governmental traditions
  • Developing better models to understand management reform in Spain

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Call for papers - next SOG Conference - Hertie School of Governance - Berlin - November 5-7, 2010

The next regular SOG Conference will be held November 5-7 at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Applications for the 2010 conference must be sent electronically by June 30, 2010. Acceptance of papers will be notified by August 1st.

Please write and send your proposals to Alina Mungiu-Pippidi at pippidi@hertie-school.org

Call for Papers "CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY" - link to PDF


Governance Newsletter, March 2010

  • Why regulators expands their role
  • New modes of governance for long-term societal challenges
  • From the archives: What shapes national responses to changes in global capital markets?

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Governance Newsletter February 2010:

  • How health care commitments fade away
  • How experts "do politics" to achieve policy change
  • Why do governments adopt regulatory impact assessment?

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Governance Newsletter January 2010:

  • Governance begins 2010 with a new design: Celebrate by enjoying free access to all content in the new issue, 23.1, throughout January.
  • Matt Andrews: "Good government" means different things in different countries
  • Subscribe to Governance, get a free copy of Freedom's Power
  • Francesco Stolfi: Fiscal retrenchment in Italy: The collision of imperatives in budget reform
  • Book reviews: Public participation in Brazil, and others
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Governance Newsletter:

  • Governance roundtable on crisis held in Boston
  • Civil service reform in Kazakhstan: The front-runner stumbles
  • Book reviews: "an extraordinary book" on NIMBY fights in Japan, and more
  • Reducing political control over administration: Agencification works
  • What happens to democratic representation in the era of "network governance"?

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Governance Newsletter:
The shadow of the state: New articles on shift from "government" to "governance"


International Right to Know Day

September 28 is International Right to Know Day.  To mark the day, Governance is providing free access to Professor Cary Coglianese’s article from its new issue (22.4, October 2009).  In The Transparency President? The Obama Administration and Open Government, Coglianese assesses the administration’s early record on transparency and warns that high public expectations about openness may not be realized.  He also raises larger questions about “an excessive emphasis on fishbowl governance,” aimed mainly at the disclosure of details about how officials behave.  The neglected alternative, says Coglianese, might be a strategy of “reasoned transparency, that demands that government officials offer explicit explanations for their actions.”  Download for free here.


News from Governance, September 2009

  • Mitchell A. Orenstein wins Levine Prize for Privatizing Pensions - read more
  • Kishore Mahbubani to write Governance commentary - read more
  • Europeanization in education policy: Two views
  • Book reviews: performance management, industrial policy, central banking, carbon taxes - read the reviews here
  • New book by SOG member Philippe Bezes: Administrative reform in France (Réinventer l'État) - details about the book

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SOG in Santiago, ChileSOG in Santiago

SOG, the academic sponsor of Governance, is the Structure and Organization of Government Committee of the International Political Science Association. IPSA will have its annual conference in Santiago, Chile on July 12-16, 2009. SOG will host four panels in Santiago, featuring the contributions of scholars from fifteen countries.

More details on the conference are available at www.santiago2009.org/microsite.

Photos from SOG in Santiago, Chile 2009
 



Governance Newsletter:

Most popular articles in 2008

These were the five most frequently downloaded articles in Governance in 2008:

Books received for review
A list of books recently received for review by Governance is now posted on our website. If you would like to write a review, or have a book that you would like to submit for review, contact book review editor Clay Wescott at cwescott@post.harvard.edu, or mail to: Asia Pacific Governance Institute, 2819 Ellicott St NW, Washington, DC 20008.

Media attention to Howard's April article on managing research organizations
In its May 12 issue, BNA Occupational Safety and Health Reporter profiles John Howard's article in the April 2009 (22.2) issue of Governance. Howard, former Director of the US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, considers how governmental research organizations can overcome "strong in-built tendencies" that threaten organizational performance . "I wanted to tell a story about our history since the mid-1990s," Howard told the Reporter. "It's important those issues are systematically integrated into the organization so that they aren't a flash in the pan."

A preview of Governance's new new design
The header of this month's newletter gives a sample of Governance's new cover design. The redesigned journal will be launched with issue 23.1 (January 2010). Governance is published by Wiley for the IPSA Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government (SOG). Read more at governancejournal.net


SOG BULLETIN: THE 2009 CHARLES A. LEVINE MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE

Charles A. Levine was an outstanding scholar in the fields of public policy and administration. He played a major role in the creation and early life of both this journal and its owner, the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (SOG). After his untimely death in 1988, the Editorial Board of Governance and the Executive Committee of SOG established an annual book prize in his memory.

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The Ulrich Kloeti Award

Professor Colin CampbellThe Ulrich Kloeti Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Study of Public Policy, Administration, and Institutions is presented annually to a scholar who has made exceptional contributions to research in the field through a sustained career. Awardees must have involved themselves significantly within SOG -- both with respect to research and leadership. The first award was presented this year at our Paris meeting to Professor Colin Campbell of the University of British Columbia. Colin is a co-founder of SOG, was the first co-editor or our journal (Governance), and exemplifies the qualities we celebrate in the Kloeti Award -- a high standard of scholarship in the areas SOG covers, major contributions to the field, and major contributions to SOG.


IPSA WORLD CONGRESS SANTIAGO 2009

Things are getting underway for the next IPSA World Congress, to be held in Santiago, Chile, July 12-16, 2009. In anticipation of the opening of the Call for Papers on January 15, 2008, please find below the procedures for the participation of IPSA Research Committees at the 21st IPSA World Congress.

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SOG BULLETIN: THE 2008 CHARLES A. LEVINE MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE

Charles A. Levine was an outstanding scholar in the fields of public policy and administration. He played a major role in the creation and early life of both this journal and its owner, the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (SOG). After his untimely death in 1988, the Editorial Board of Governance and the Executive Committee of SOG established an annual book prize in his memory.

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Call for papers

A conference co-sponsored by IPSA’s RC27 The Structure and Organization of Government and The Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg

New Public Management and the Quality of Government

Gothenburg, November 13-15, 2008

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Tom Christensen, Per Lćgreid, Paul G. Roness and Kjell Arne Rřvik:

Organization Theory and the Public Sector
Instrument, culture and myth

Organization Theory and the Public SectorPublic sector organizations are fundamentally different to their private sector counterparts. They are multi-functional, follow a political leadership, and the majority do not operate in an external market. In an era of rapid reform, reorganization and modernization of the public sector, this book offers a timely and illuminating introduction to the public sector organization that recognizes its unique values, interests, knowledge and power-base.
Drawing on both instrumental and institutional perspectives within organization theory, as well as democratic theory and empirical studies of decision-making, the book addresses five central aspects of the public sector organization:
 • goals and values
 • leadership and steering
 • reform and change
 • effects and implications
 • understanding and design.
The book challenges conventional economic analysis of the public sector, arguing instead for a democratic-political approach and a new, prescriptive organization theory. A rich resource of both theory and practice, Organization Theory for the Public Sector: Instrument, Culture and Myth is essential reading for anybody studying the public sector.

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IPSAportal

IPSAportal is the portal of the International Political Science Association and an official online IPSA publication. Hundreds of useful, rich and qualitatively outstanding websites for political science are selected, rewieved and evaluated by IPSA in order to provide scholars and students of the discipline worldwide an useful tool for online research. Among others, crucial information about the nature, quantity and retrievability of the content, the easiness of access and use and the fee policy of each site are provided.

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New Book:

Transcending New Public Management
The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms

Tom Christensen and Per Lćgreid

Transcending New Public ManagementFollowing on from the success of the editors' previous book, New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice, which examined the public reform process up to the end of the last decade, this new volume draws on the previous knowledge both theoretically and empirically. It examines and debates the post-new public management reform development in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand.

The ideal follow-up to the previous volume, this book includes many of the same contributors in addition to some fresh voices, and is a must for anyone looking for an integrated framework of analysis. Comprehensive and analytical, it is an important contribution to the study of public administration and particularly to the reform of public management.

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SOG Conference in Paris, May 22-25, 2008

What do we learn about the transformations of the state in the age of multi-level governance?

The importance of globalization, decentralization, europeanization and state fragmentation has been studied by a large number of scholars in public administration and political science. In the litterature, the notion of “multi level governance” has captured the dominant idea of this trend by insisting on the emergence of new actors and organisations at international, transnational, Europan and local levels, by considering the inner state devolution and agencification and by shedding light on international processes reallocating authority between sovereign actors. In these configurations, the state is said to have lost part of its nodal position and some of its resources. Beyond agreement that multi level governance is now central, there is no consensus about the emergence of this situation and about the conditions under which the state has maintained or redesigned some of its capacities in multi-level games.

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SOG BULLETIN: THE 2007 CHARLES A. LEVINE MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE

Charles A. Levine was an outstanding scholar in the fields of public policy and administration. He played a major role in the creation and early life of both this journal and its owner, the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (SOG). After his untimely death in 1988, the Editorial Board of Governance and the Executive Committee of SOG established an annual book prize in his memory

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Call for Papers for 2007 SOG Conference:

Governance Crisis in Comparative Perspective

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The Department of Public Administration
College of Political Science and Economics
Korea University
Seoul, Korea
(Sponsored by the Korea Civil Service Commission)
October 11-12, 2007

Paper Submission
The deadline for paper proposal submission is June 30, 2007 and the completed paper will be due on September 10, 2007.

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NEW BOOK

Autonomy and Regulation. Coping with Agencies in the Modern StateTom Christensen and Per Lćgreid, eds.
Autonomy and Regulation. Coping with Agencies in the Modern State.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

This book focuses on regulatory reforms and the autonomization and agencification of public sector organizations across Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. The central argument of the book is that regulation and agencification occur and perform in tandem. Comparative analysis on the processes, effects and implications of regulatory reform and the establishment of semi-independent agencies are undertaken, and the practice of trade-offs between political control and agency autonomy is explored. The contributors also discuss the challenges of fragmentation, coordination, 'joined-up' government and other government initiatives in the aftermath of the New Public Management movement and its focus on agencification. Finally, the complexity of deregulation/re-regulation, new emergent forms of regulation, control and auditing as well as reassertion of the centre are examined.

The book is based on the best papers form the conference "Autonomization of the state: From integrated administrative models to single purpose organizations" at Stanford University in April 2006, sponsored by the IPSA research Committe 27 Structure and Organization og Government and the Scandinavian Concortium of Organizational Research (SCANCOR) .

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IPSA World Congress in Fukuoka, Japan July 9-13, 2006

Papers for SOG-panels at IPSA world congress, Fukuoka, are available here.

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New Members of the Executive Board

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In Memoriam: Ulrich KlötiThe Ulrich Kloeti Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Study of Public Policy, Administration and Institutions

The Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (SOG) announces the Ulrich Kloeti Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Study of Public Policy, Administration and Institutions. The award seeks to recognize scholars who have made exceptional contributions to research in the field through a sustained career. Nominees must have involved themselves significantly within SOG--both with respect to research and leadership. Current executive officers of SOG or its journal Governance are not eligible for consideration. Submissions should detail how a nominee's contributions warrant the Kloeti Award. They should be sent to the selection committee chair by November 15, 2006. The chair is Colin Campbell, Canada Research Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1. Electronic nominations may be made through colincampbell@politics.ubc.ca. Other committee members are Nicole de Montricher (Université de Paris II; nmontricher@u-paris2.fr) and Mark Considine University of Melbourne; (mark1@unimelb.edu.au).

Ulrich Kloeti

Professor Kloeti was a founding member of SOG. He served for ten years as its co-chair (1990-2000). His numerous scholarly contributions centered on policy, administration and institutions in Switzerland but always with a keen eye for the comparative relevance of his work. Professor Kloeti distinguished himself both in public and university administration. He served as the personal secretary to the Swiss chancellor from 1973 to 1980. His extensive administrative work at the University of Zurich culminated in his becoming vice-president for teaching--a position that he held at the time of his death. Professor Kloeti also filled several substantial leadership roles in Swiss scholarly societies.
 

In Memoriam: Ulrich Klöti

Professor Ulrich Klöti died suddenly on Sunday, February 5, 2006, in Uster near Zurich, Switzerland. Ulrich (Ueli to his family and friends) was one of the most prominent and respected members of the Structure and Organization of Government (SOG) Research Committee of IPSA, a former co-chair of SOG’s Executive Board, and a member of the Editorial Board of GOVERNANCE.

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AWARD CITATION: THE CHARLES H. LEVINE MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE, 2005

The committee unanimously decided to award the 2005 Levine Prize to Atul Kohli’s book, State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery, published by Cambridge University Press in 2004. In this meticulous analysis of the reasons developing countries succeed or fail to industrialize, Atul Kohli demonstrates that building an effective state is a central ingredient. Without effective state capacity, resources are not efficiently employed, important groups cannot be effectively mobilized, and political elites fail to pursue coherent policies. Building this capacity may be achieved under either authoritarian or democratic regimes.

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Preparing for the FuturePrestigious Public Administration Award Presented to Book on Strategic Planning

Preparing for the Future: Strategic Planning in the U.S. Air Force , by Michael Barzelay and Colin Campbell, has received the National Academy of Public Administration 2004 Louis Brownlow Book Award. The book is a treatise on how an organization faced with uncertain risk gets better every day. What one will like about Preparing for the Future is the fact that it is an engaging story, one whose relevance extends well beyond readers who are interested in the Air Force or national security. It has profound implications for all levels of government and for any organization wrestling seriously with its future.

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