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The EGPA Study Group on Governance of Public Sector Organizations studies aspects of public sector organizations. Our focus is on public sector organizations of different forms, ranging from semi-independent governmental units to different types of ‘agencies’, state-owned companies and government foundations. Central issues under study are the establishment, change (and dissolution) of these organizations, different characteristics of different forms of organizations, their design, governance, management and control, and their performance. Furthermore, these organizations interact with a complex (multi-level) network of actors, consisting of for example parliament, ministers and ministries, subnational and international government organizations, regulators, other agencies, interest groups, courts and civil society. The quality, frequency and type of interactions can be studied, as well as the consequences for all parties involved.
Study Group chairs are Per Laegreid (University of Bergen), Koen Verhoest (Leuven University) and Sandra Van Thiel (Erasmus University Rotterdam. Sandra van Thiel replaced Werner Jann (Universität Potsdam) who was co-chair from 2006-2009
Full program
of the Study Group (2006-2009)
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Toulouse meeting
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Annual Conference of EGPA 2011
7-10 September 2011, Bucharest, Romania
Agencies in crisis? States in search of better coordination and rationalization of agencification
>> Call for papers (pdf)
>> Programme
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The
study group's main activity is the meeting during
the EGPA Annual Conferences. Occasional
meetings will be organised at other conferences.
Consult the conference pages for detailed information
and papers.
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Milaan (2006)
>> Madrid
(2007)
>> Rotterdam
(2008)
>> Monitoring Chart PSG VI 2006-2009 final
>> Malta (2009)
>> Toulouse (2010)
Through its link with the COBRA
network and the COST-CRIPO network the permanent Study Group has the
possibility to publish books
in a book series on public sector organization
with Palgrave, after approval by the series-editors
Guy Peters and Geert Bouckaert. Moreover, we
will aim for the publication of high-quality
papers
in special issues of peer-reviewed journals,
as well as the creation of possibilities for
the publication
of single papers.
Based on the sessions from 2006 till 2009 two special issues in International Review of Administrative Sciences and in Public Organization Review have been published, as well as an edited volume with Palgrave. |
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Cooperation |
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The
Study Group aspires to be a platform for research
on
governance of public sector organisations. The
EGPA Study Group aims at bringing together scholars
in this field to increase cross-fertilization,
promote cumulative and joint research, and stimulate
exchange on research methods (e.g. advantages
of combining survey and case study research).
A recent initiative to stimulate
joint research on public sector organizations
is COBRA and the COST-CRIPO network.
The “Comparative Public Organization Data
Base for Research and Analysis – network” is
an academic research network consisting
of research teams from 13 Western countries.
One major vehicle is the COST Action ISO 601 (2007-2011) '“Comparative Research into Current Trends in Public Sector Organization – CRIPO” which involves 23 countries. One of the aims is to develop common databases
on a number
of crucial aspects of public sector organizations.
The EGPA permanent Study Group provides
a major open forum to discuss COBRA and other
research.
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Research
themes and planning |
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The EGPA permanent
Study Group on the ‘governance of public
sector organizations’ is inspired by the
observation that new trends and evolutions are
changing the practice of the organization of
the public sector internationally: specialization
within large monolithic bureaucracies results
in the establishment of different kinds of single
purpose autonomous agencies, which urge for a
stricter coordination of policy sectors and also
within governmental levels.
These agencies emerge in a governance context in which boundaries are
blurring between public and private sectors and between the different
levels of government In such a setting, these agencies are mostly not
only linked to the governments that have created them, but also interact
extensively with other actors from the public and private sector and
with other public bodies (including agencies) on other governmental
levels.
Also resulting from this shift are issues of performance and accountability
of these autonomous agencies. Although governments are adapting to
these trends at an ever increasing pace, scientific proof of the beneficial
effects of these trends for the functioning of the public sector is
still lacking.
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