March 31 1800

Reception, Scancor, CERAS Building 531, Stanford University

April 1

0900-0915

Opening; informal breakfast
CERAS Building 204

0915-1045

Regulatory reforms and challenges of coordination: 

Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid: Autonomization and Regulatory Reforms 

Hanne Foss Hansen and Lene Holm Pedersen: Regualtory reform: Efforts, instruments and effectiveness: the Case of Denmark

B.Guy Peters, Koen Verhoerst, Eva Beuselinck and Geert Bouckaert: How coordination and control of public organizations by government interrelate: an analytical and empirical exploration

Chair:
Per Lægreid

Discussant:
Joel Aberbach

1045-1100

Break

1100-1300

Accountability and regulatory agencies: 

Peter Aucoin: Accountability Coordination with Independent Foundations: A Canadian Case of Distributed Governance in Comparative Perspective 

Koen Verhoerst, Falke, Meyers, Bram Verschuere, B. Guy Peters and Geert Bouckaert: Agencification and accountability regimes: ‘Upwards’ and ‘downwards’ accountability in Flanders.

Per Lægreid, Paul G. Roness and Kristin Rubecksen: Autonomy and control in the Norwegian civil service: Does agency type matter? 

Jørgen Grønnegaard Christensen and Kutsal Yesilkagit: Consolidation and specialization in regulatory administration: A comparative analysis of Danish, Dutch and Swedish central administration

Chair:
Tom Christensen

Discussant:
John Halligan

1300-1400

Lunch break

1400-1530

Autonomization and the role of the centre: 

Colin Campbell: The Effects of Autonomization on Executive-Bureaucratic Politics: New Dynamics ain the Roles of Career officials and Relations Between members of the Political Executives 

John Halligan: The Reassertion of the Centre in First Generation NPM Systems 

Robert Gregory: From theoretical capture to reactive pragmatism: Development in New Zealand State Sector Reform

Chair:
Martin Painter

Discussant:
Martin Painter

1530-1545

Break

1545-1745

Political control and regulation of infrastructure: 

B.Bidhya: Administrative Reform and Tidal Waves from Regime Shifts: Reverse Effects of Thaksin’s Tsunami on Autonomization

Martin Painter: Staying in Control: Managerial Reform and Political Control: the Case of Thaksin and the Thai Bureaucracy

Paul Schulman and Emery Roe: Markets, Organizations and Institutions: A Paradox in the Management and Regulation of Critical Infrastructures 

David Richards and Martin J. Smith: Institutional Reform for Political Control: Analysing the British Labour Government’s Approach to the Pathologies of Governance

Chair:
Christoper Pollitt

Discussant:
Bert Rockman

1930

Dinner: Restaurant Zibibbo, 430 Kipling Street, Palo Alto. (650) 614-9131

April 2

0900-1030

Regulation and agencification in the food policy area: 

Trygve Ugland and Frode Veggland: Centralization versus Central Co-ordination:Food Inspection System Reforms in Canada and the European Union (EU) 

Lise Hellebø: Food safety at stake - the establishment of food agencies 

Virginie Gimbert: Ambiguous Relations Between Administrations and Agency: The Case of Food Risk Regulation in France

Chair:
Per Lægreid

Discussant:
Graham Wilson

1030-1045

Break

1045-1215

Regulatory reforms in the welfare state area: 

Helena Stensøta: Variations in social security. Re-regulation processes in the social administration system in Sweden 

Anders Forssell and Anders Ivarsson Westerberg: The Swedish Police - more autonomy, more control 

Arjen Boin, Oliver James and Martin Lodge: New Public Management and Prisons: Exploring the consequences for political control in three European correctional systems

Chair:
Tom Christensen

Discussant: Christophher Pollitt

1215-1345

Lunch break and SOG business meeting

1345-1515

Autonomy and control: Central banking service delivery and
arena shifting: 

Martin Marcussen: Transcending Politics: A New Stage in Management Transformation? The Scientification of Central Banking as Case 

Matthew Flinders and Jim Buller: Depoliticisation, Democracy and Arena -Shifting

Mattew Denton: The Impact of Devolution on Quasi-Autonomous Public Bodies: The Case of Scotland

Chair:
Kerstin Sahlin- Andersson

Discussant:
Colin Campbell

1515-1530

Break

1530-1700

Performance Management and new organizational forms:

Christopher Pollitt: Performance management in practice: a comparative study of executive agencies 

Joerge Culebro: Autonomisation of the state in Mexico and New Forms of Control. The introduction of performance agreements in the para-state governmental agencies 

Philippe Bezes: “Reinventing the French Bureaucracy”: New organisational form, differentiation process and internal conflict within the state. 

Chair:
Joel Aberbach

Discussant: Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson

1700

Appetizers & wine in the CERAS Lobby immediately following end of sessions