About SOG

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General Information

The Structure and Organisation of Government (SOG) is a research committee of the International Political Science Association. SOG was established as a study group with IPSA in 1988, later becoming Research Committee 27.

The group's primary focus is the comparative study of executive branches and their changing roles in public policy making. At the centre of this focus are the dynamics of public bureaucracies and their relations with political executives and interests in civil societies, hence the title of its journal:
Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration

Further reading: Presentation of SOG

Secretariat:

Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies
Nygårdsgaten 5
N-5015 Bergen
Norway

Phone: 0047 55589710
Fax: 0047 55589711

Email: Per Lægreid on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

New board - July 31, 2009
Chair and Co-Chairs

• Joel D. Aberbach
  University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Philippe Bezes
  National Center for Scientific Research, France

Secretary/Treasurer

• Per Lægreid
  University of Bergen/Rokkan-Centre, Norway

Members of the Executive Board

• Akira Nakamura
  Meiji University, Japan
• B. Guy Peters
  University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Sandeep Shastri
  University of Bangalore, India
• Graham Wilson
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
• Moshe Maor
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Herman Bakvis
  Dalhousie University, Canada
• Bidhya Bowornwathana
  Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
• Tom Christensen
  University of Oslo, Norway
• Mark Considine
  Universty of Melbourne, Australia
• Kutsal Yesilkagit
  University of Utrecht, Netherlands
• Hanne Foss Hansen
  University of Copenhagen, denmark
• Bob Cox
  USA
• John Halligan
  University of Canberra, Australia
• Martin Lodge
  London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom