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, 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 2011The 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:
- It makes a contribution of considerable theoretical or practical
significance in the field of public policy and administration.
- It takes an explicitly comparative perspective or produces findings
the implications of which ware highly significant for comparative
research.
- 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
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.
More information
 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.
More information
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.
Read more
 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.
Read more
Commemorative Notes for Hans-Ulrich Derlien (1945-2010) and Ravil
Kapil (1931-2010).
Read more
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
Link to newsletter
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
Link to newsletter
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
More (pdf)
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
Link to newsletter
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
Link to newsletter
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
Link to newsletter
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?
Link to newsletter
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?
Link to newsletter
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
Link to newsletter
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"?
Link to newsletter
Governance Newsletter:
The shadow of the state: New articles on shift from "government" to "governance"
-
New Governance, the Internet, and Country-Code Top-Level Domains in
Europe.
-
From Government to Governance? A Comparison of Environmental Governing
in Swedish Forestry and Transport.
-
Governance co-sponsors roundtable on impact of crisis scheduled for
Boston, November 13
Download agenda and other details here.
-
The Institutionalization of Environmental Attention in the United States
and Denmark: Multiple- Versus Single-Venue Systems.
-
Symposium to honor SOG member Peter Aucoin
-
2010 Levine Prize committee appointed
The
Levine Prize page on the Governance
blog
-
Hahm, Governance board member, calls
for constitutional reform in South Korea
Hahm's proposals are described in a
news report in the October 23 issue of the Korea Times.
-
SOG member Hans-Ulrich Derlien
of Universität Bamberg is co-editor of a new two-volume study,
The State at Work, published by
Edward Elgar Publishing.
Read more about
Volume One, Public Sector
Employment in Ten Western Countries, and
Volume Two, Comparative Public
Service Systems.
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
Link to newsletter
 SOG 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.
 More
»
The Ulrich Kloeti Award
 The
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.
More
»
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.
More
»
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
More
»
Conference program (pdf) »
Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid, Paul G. Roness and
Kjell Arne Røvik:
Organization Theory and the Public Sector
Instrument, culture and myth
 Public
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.
More
information [pdf]
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.
IPSAportal
»
New Book:
Transcending New Public Management
The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms
Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid
 Following
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.
More
»
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.
More
» 
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
More
»
Call for Papers for 2007 SOG Conference:
Governance Crisis in Comparative Perspective
at
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.
More
»
NEW BOOK
 Tom 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) .
For more information, see
this link
IPSA World Congress in Fukuoka, Japan July 9-13, 2006
Papers for SOG-panels at IPSA world congress, Fukuoka, are
available here.
More »
New Members of the Executive
Board
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»
 The 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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 Prestigious
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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