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News from Governance, November 2011

  • Money-laundering rules in China: reconciling global economic integration with party control - Read more
  • Management reform in the UN system: what is required for success? - Read more
  • Book reviews: Skepticism about NPM, and doubts about discipline
    • The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management – By Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid - Read the review
    • The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government – By Alasdair Roberts - Read the review

The next issue of Governance (January 2011) will focus on the effects of the financial crisis on public governance. The introduction to the special issue can now be read on the Governance blog.


News from Governance, October 2011


Nicole de Montricher Receives 2010 Kloeti Award Plaque at Paris Dinner

Nicole de Montricher Receives 2010 Kloeti Award PlaqueNicole de Montricher, winner of the 2010 Ulrich Kloeti Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Study of Public Policy, Administration and Institutions was presented with the award plaque at a dinner in Paris. The award recognizes 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. Attendees included Joan and Joel Aberbach, Philippe Bezes, Harvey Feigenbaum and, of course, Nicole. The dinner was held at Les fils de la ferme in Paris on 26 May 2011.

 

 

 


2012 Structure and Organization of Government Conference - Call for Papers

Public Policy and Public Management: Exploring the Changing Linkages
Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne, Australia
January 27-29, 2012

Paper proposal deadline: August 31st.

Paper proposals (max 250 words) addressing the conference theme should be sent electronically to Dr Damon Alexander at dta@unimelb.edu.au by August 31st 2011 with ‘SOG paper’ as subject. Acceptance of papers will be notified by email by September 30th. Please be advised that panel places are limited and that participants are expected to become SOG members. Because of limited places, only one paper per author (including joint authored papers) will be accepted.

» Call for papers (pdf)


News from Governance, May 2011


Governance, April 2011

  • Open access: Tommasi on state capacity in Latin America
    Mariano TommasiDebates about state reform in Latin America often focus on fashions such as developmental statism or neoliberalism.  Read more.
     
  • Civil service reform after joining the EU: Sometimes progress, sometimes reversal
    The eight countries that joined the European Union in 2004 were required to professionalize their civil services as a condition of membership. Read the article.
     
  • Ten years later, a policy half-completed: Performance pay in Italian municipal government. Ten years after Italy's parliament passed a law requiring pay-for-performance systems for senior officials in municipal government, almost half of municipalities have failed to implement the reform. Read the article.
     
  • Call for papers: SOG Workshop on The Future of the Regulatory State
    OsloSOG is calling for paper proposals for a workshop on the future of the regulatory state to be held in Oslo on September 15-16, 2011. More details can be found here.

Governance - April 2011, Volume 24, Issue 2. Pages 199–413


CALL FOR PAPERS - SOG WORKSHOP - Oslo, 15/6 September 2011

The Future of the Regulatory State: Adaptation, Transformation, Or Demise?

One of the most widely made claims over the past three decades has been that we are living in the age of the regulatory state. However, events such as the financial crisis have pointed to potential weaknesses in the 'orthodoxies' that underpinned the ideas of the regulatory state. This workshop therefore intends to discuss the future of the regulatory state. We are interested in papers that explore themes, such as

  • the limits of regulatory regimes
  • the limits of market-based problem-solving
  • the limits of national regulatory capacity

More details about the workshop can be found here.

Further information; pdf

Please submit paper proposals (max 250 words) by 20 May to Nick Sitter and Martin Lodge.


Conference Proposal: Structure and Organization of Government (SOG) Melbourne 2012

Proposed Date: January 27-29 2012.

Theme: Public Policy and Public Management: Exploring the Changing Linkages

Delegates will be asked to address the following theme in their paper:

The relationship between public policy and public management appears to be changing. The history of administrative reform was for a long time closely related to the trajectory of public policy. Administrative reform has been the government’s strategy of adapting the public sector structures and processes to the goals and means defined in public policy. There have been obvious interdependencies between policy and administration, but overall it can safely be argued that in terms of reform administration has followed policy.

Damon Alexander (dta@unimelb.edu.au) is the contact person at Melbourne for any questions you may have about conference arrangements, paper proposal deadlines, etc.

» Read the whole proposal here (pdf)


News from Governance

  • Toward a New Era of Administrative Reform? The Myth of Post-NPM in New Zealand
    Martin Lodge and Derek Gill.
    Open access to the article
  • Transgovernmentalism Meets Security: Police Liaison Officers, Terrorism, and Statist Transnationalism
    Ersel Aydinli and Hasan Yön.
    Open access to the article
  • Nonpartisan Legislative Budget Offices: A Tentative Step toward Improving Legislative Oversight
    Jeffrey Straussman and Ari Renoni.
    Open access to the article

Book reviews:


SOG BULLETIN: THE 2011 Charles H. Levine MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE

Charles H. 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.

The book selected should meet the following criteria:

  1. It makes a contribution of considerable theoretical or practical significance in the field of public policy and administration.
  2. It takes an explicitly comparative perspective or produces findings the implications of which ware highly significant for comparative research.
  3. It is written in an accessible style and form so that it is of value both to scholars and practitioners.

The Levine Prize will be awarded to the book published in 2010 that best meets these criteria. Nominations should be made by 31 March 2011 and sent to the chair of the committee. Please send a copy of the book to all three members of the committee:

Dr. Anthony B. L. Cheung
Chair of the Levine Prize committee
The Hong Kong Institute of Education
10 Lo Ping Road
Tai Po, New Territories
Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2948 6315
Fax: (852) 2948 6314
Email: ablcheung@ied.edu.hk

Dr. Kimberley Isett
Department of Health Policy and Management
Columbia University
600 W. 168th St, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10032
phone: 979-574-9379
ki2129@columbia.edu

Dr. Kutsal Yesilkagit
Utrecht School of Governance(USG)
University of Utrecht
Bijlhouwerstraat 6
3511 ZC Utrecht
The Netherlands
A.K.Yesilkagit@uu.nl
 


News from Governance, January 2011

  • Free download: Delapalme on African governance - LINK
  • Drawbacks of power-sharing after flawed elections: Lessons from Kenya and Zimbabwe - LINK
  • The unexpected resilience of South Africa's traditional leaders - LINK
  • Open access to all content in January 2011 issue - LINK

Governance is published by Wiley for the IPSA Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government (SOG). It is co-edited by Alasdair Roberts and Robert H. Cox, and book review editor Clay Wescott. For further details about this newsletter, contact co-editor Alasdair Roberts, Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont Street Office 210C, Boston MA USA 02108


The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management

Edited by Tom Christensen, University of Oslo, Norway and Per Lægreid, University of Bergen, Norway
Hardback, 522 pages, includes 9 figures and 17 tables
Published: January 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7806-9
Price : £85.00 » Website price: £76.50

A comprehensive, up-to-the-moment review of the New Public Management movement, the driving forces behind its reform and its various trajectories and special features. The Companion offers a refreshing analysis of key issues, and is essential reading for students, and anyone with an interest in modern administrative reform.

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The Oxford Handbook of Regulation

Edited by Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, and Martin Lodge
Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management
680 pages
978-0-19-956021-9 | Hardback | 09 September 2010

  • 'State of the art' interdisciplinary study of regulation in an international context
  • Each chapter provides a broad overview of key current issues and perspectives from a leading expert
  • Particular focus on the issues of the application of specific regulatory approaches in different contexts

Regulation is often thought of as an activity that restricts behaviour and prevents the occurrence of certain undesirable activities, but the influence of regulation can also be enabling or facilitative, as when a market could potentially be chaotic if uncontrolled. This Handbook provides a clear and authoritative discussion of the major trends and issues in regulation over the last thirty years, together with an outline of prospective developments. It brings together contributions from leading scholars from a range of disciplines and countries.

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News from Governance, December 2010

  • Tax blacklists: the dangers of "policy plagiarism" - Read the article
  • Establishing an autonomous tax agency: Sardinia's experience - Read the article
  • Book reviews:
    • Réinventer l'Etat: les réformes de l'administration française, 1962–2008 – By Philippe Bezes
      Review by JULIE GERVAIS
    • Self-Enforcing Trade: Developing Countries and WTO Dispute Settlement – By Chad Bown
      Review by JOHN WHALLEY
    • Boundaries of Obligation in American Politics: Geographic, National, and Racial Communities – By Cara J. Wong
      Review by YVES LABERGE
  • New book: SOG member Robert H. Cox of the University of Oklahoma and Daniel Beland of the University of Saskatchewan are co-editors of a new book from Oxford University Press, Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research. Read more about the book

Governance of Public Sector Organizations
Proliferation, Autonomy and Performance

Edited by Per Lægreid and Koen Verhoest
Series: Governance and Public Management
Palgrave Macmillan

Governance of Public Sector Organizations examines recent changes in central governmental administration in contemporary democracies by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. There is a considerable need for such knowledge in a period when governments are constantly restructuring their administration. This book studies and explains how New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM reforms affect the organizational proliferation and specialization, as well as the autonomy and control of central agencies. New empirical data sheds light on the effects of these changes on organizational performance. The book describes how 'whole-of-government' initiatives with emphasis on reassertion of the centre and horizontal coordination supplement NPM reforms, producing increased layering and complexity in government organizations.

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Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research

Edited by Daniel Béland and Robert Henry Cox
ISBN13: 9780199736874ISBN10: 0199736871 Paperback, 288 pages

Description
Writing about ideas, John Maynard Keynes noted that they are "more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else." One would expect, therefore, that political science--a discipline that focuses specifically on the nature of power--would have a healthy respect for the role of ideas. However, for a variety of reasons--not least of which is the influence of rational choice theory, which presumes that individuals are self-maximizing rational actors--this is not the case, and the literature on the topic is fairly thin. As the stellar cast of contributors to this volume show, ideas are in fact powerful shapers of political and social life.

In Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research , Daniel Béland and Robert Henry Cox have gathered leading scholars from a variety of subdisciplines in political science and sociology to provide a general overview of the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues raised by social science research on ideas and politics. Throughout, they hone in on three central questions. What is the theoretical basis for studying ideas in politics? What are the best methods? What sort of empirical puzzles can be solved by examining ideas and related phenomena such as discourse, policy paradigms, and framing processes? In sum, this is a state-of-the-art academic work on both the role of ideas in politics and the analytical utility that derives from studying them.

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Commemorative Notes for Hans-Ulrich Derlien (1945-2010) and Ravil Kapil (1931-2010).

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SOG conference
“Crisis as Opportunity: State, Markets and Communities in Turbulent Times”.
Hertie School of Governance, Berlin 4-5 November 2010.

Papers are available here


Governance Newsletter, October 2010

  • Free download: The future of the EU
  • Free download: How Freedom of Information has changed UK government
  • When does evidence matter in policymaking?
  • Book reviews: Laid-off Chinese SOE workers, Laegrid festschrift

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Governance Newsletter, September 2010

  • How organizational design influences survival
  • France: a "radical break" on applying the brakes
  • In Boston? Join us for lunch on September 29 for Eurozone discussion
  • Estonia: Explaining the evolution of budgetary institutions
  • Book reviews: foreign aid, civil service reform in post-communist countries

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The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government

Edited by David Coen, Professor of Public Policy, University College London, Wyn Grant, Professor of Politics, University of Warwick, and Graham Wilson, Professor of Political Science, Boston University

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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 H. Levine MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE

Charles H. 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 H. Levine MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE

Charles H. 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 Lægreid, Paul G. Roness and Kjell Arne Røvik:

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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IPSAportal


New Book:

Transcending New Public Management
The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms

Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid

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 H. Levine MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE

Charles H. 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 Lægreid, 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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