Third Meeting of the Management Committee and Joint meeting of the Working Groups 3-4 June 2008 Received research notes

• Full research paper
• Short methodological note

Full research paper

• The steering and control of central government Non-Departmental Public Bodies in Italy
  Dario Barbieri, Paolo Fedele, Davide Galli, Edoardo Ongaro (doc)
• Measuring systemic performance of the lithuanian government
  Dr. Vitalis Nakrosis (doc)
• Good neighbours or distant friends? Trust between Dutch ministries and their executive agencies
  Sandra van Thiel and Kutsal Yesilkagit (pdf)
• The structural anatomy of the Norwegian state 1985-2007: increased specialization or a pendulum shift?
  Per Lægreid (pdf)
• Executive agencies in Estonia
  Külli Sarapuu (doc)
• Research Note: 'Switzerland'
  Andreas Ladner, Glenda Guillaume-Gentil and Yves Emery, IDHEAP, Kuno Schedler (University of St-Gallen) (pdf)
• A case study: which level of autonomy for an “ideal-type” agency?
  Andreas Ladner*, Glenda Guillaume-Gentil (doc)
• Performance of public sector organizations: do management techniques matter?
  Falke Meyers , Koen Verhoest , & Bram Verschuere (doc)
• Delegated governance in Germany: agencies and other autonomous bodies in a Rechtsstaat
  Tobias Bach (pdf)
• The Corporate Governance of Commercial State Enterprises in Ireland: Initial survey findings
  Muiris MacCarthaigh, Institute of Public Administration (Dublin, Ireland) (pdf)
• Institutionalisation of meritocratic recruitment in Latin American regulatory agencies
  Salvador Parrado and Miquel Salvador (UNED, Madrid and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) (doc)
• Governing Agencies: The Establishment and Development of Performance Contracts in Denmark
  Anne Binderkrantz and Jørgen Grønnegård Christensen (doc)
• Delegation without Agency Loss? The Use of Performance Contracts in Danish Central Government
  Anne Binderkrantz & Jørgen Grønnegaard Christensen (Department of Political Science - University of Aarhus) (doc)
• Public Sector Organizations: Slovakia (doc)
• Autonomy, Delegation and State Structure: Israel as a Case Study
  Levi-Faur, David, Shimon Livshitz and Michael Alef The Hebrew University (doc)
• The agency landscape in Hungary: An empirical survey of non-departmental public bodies 2002-2006
  György Hajnal, ECOSTAT, Department of Public Administration Research (doc)
• Executive agencies in Tanzania: a descriptive analysis
  Andrew Sulle, Catholic University of Leuven (doc)
• Good governance and decision-making in the Finnish central government agencies
  Johanna Jokisuu, Public Management, Faculty of Public Administration, University of Vaasa, Finland (doc)
• The Impact of Horizontal Coordination in Australia
  John Halligan, University of Canberra (doc)

Short methodological note

• Methodological note for the third CRIPO meeting, Utrecht, 3-4 June 2008
  Tobias Bach, University of Potsdam, Germany (doc)
• A short note on methodology assessment (Lithuania) (doc)
• Questions for discussion on the Cobra methodology
  György Hajnal, ECOSTAT, Department of Public Administration Research (doc)
• A Methodological Research Note on the Swedish Cobra Survey
  Birgitta Niklasson (doc)
• The Swedish COBRA survey (doc)
• Swedish data collected by the researcher (doc)
• The Swedish COBRA survey. Excluded questions (doc)
• Methodological note for the third COST CRIPO meeting in Utrecht, 3-4 June 2008
  Külli Sarapuu, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (doc)
• Good governance and decision-making in the Finnish central government agencies
  Johanna Jokisuu, Public Management, Faculty of Public Administration, University of Vaasa, Finland (doc)