Oxford, 10-11 July 1998

Public Policy and Administration at the Turn of the Century

Friday, July 10

9:00 - 11:00

Overview of Themes

Graham Wilson, University of Wisconsin

"Why Did The Revolution Happen?"

Harvey Feigenbaum, George Washington University

"Globalization State Policy And The Protection of Culture"

11:15 - 12:30

New Challenges to Government

Klaus H. Goetz, LSE

"Centers of Government in Post-Communist Europe"

Herman Bakvis, Dalhousie University

"Policy Capacity in an Era of Virtual Government"

Rainer Praetorius, Hamburg

"Discretion v. 'Ermessen': A Comparative Perspective On the Legitimacy and Future of Bureaucratic Autonomy"

Alexandre Sine, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan

"The Work of Governability: Conflict Management Concerning Large Infrastructure Projects"

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Strategic Planning and Budgeting

Colin Campbell, Georgetown University

"Inputs, Outputs and Outcomes"

Terence Casey, George Washington University

"Between Policy and Performance: Economic Change and Social Conflict in Conservative Britain"

Izak Atiyas, Bilkent University, Ankara

"The Structure of Economic Bureaucracy In Turkey: Facilitator or Obstacle"

16:00 - 17:30

Policy Making Without Frontiers

Gillian Peele and Helen Fawcett, Oxford

"Problems of Policy Transfer"

Deborah Mitchell, Australian National University

title to be announced

John Halligan, University of Canberra

"Policy Without Administration"

18:30 - 19:30

Reception

19:30

Governance

Tenth Anniversary Dinner

Saturday, July 11

9:00 - 11:00

Policy Appraisal, Analysis and Evaluation

Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh

"Policy Instruments and Public Management: Two Separate Discourses?"

Mark Rom, Georgetown University

"Moving Targets, Moving Tools, Fixed Minds"

11:15 - 12:30

Staffing Government: New Challenges to Bureaucracy

Patrick Wolf, Georgetown University

"The Politics of Public Administration in the US Federal Government: Lessons From the Twentieth Century"

Alasdair Roberts, Queen's University, Canada

"Must Worlds Collide? The Effects of Public Sector Restructuring on Governmental Openness"

Phillipe Bezes, University of Paris-I

"Orthodox Modernization: The Politics of French Government and Administrative Reforms from 1986 to 1997"

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and

SOG Executive Meeting

Liebet Hoogle, University of Toronto

"The European Commission: A New Bureaucracy?"

David Williams, Oxford

"Public Administration and the Impact of International Financial Organizations"

16:00 - 17:30

Roundtable and Concluding Remarks