Madrid conference (Spain, 2007)

• Provisional Programme
• Call for papers (pdf)
• List of accepted paper abstracts for the Madrid Conference (doc)
• Progress report Madrid Study Group VI Final (pdf)

Provisional Programme

Wednesday, 19 September 2007

11.30 – 16.00 Registration of Participants
16.00 – 17.30 Opening session

17.30 – 18.00 Coffee Break

18.00 – 19.30 First Study Group session: Agencies – a dynamic perspective

Opening of the Study Group Meeting

Discussants: John Burns
Papers:
• The Public Sector’s Use of Agencies: A Dynamic Rather than Static Scene (Roger Wettenhall and Chris Aulich) (pdf)
• The level of NPM-ness of public agencies: assessing the influence of time, place and task (Bram Verschuere & Dario Barbieri) (pdf)

21.00 – Dinner

Thursday, 20 September 2007

09.00 – 11.30 Second Study Group Session: The autonomy of agencies revisited

Discussants: Tom Christensen
Papers:
• Explaining autonomy of public sector agencies: a three-country study (Norway, Ireland and Flanders)(Paul Roness, Kristin Rubecksen et al.) (pdf)
• Autonomy of agencies and semi-autonomous organisations in Italy (Dario Barbieri, Paolo Fedele, Davide Galli and Eduardo Ongaro) (doc)
• Real bureaucratic autonomy in parliamentary democracies: the case of the Netherlands (Kutsal Yesilkagut and Sandra van Thiel) (pdf)
• Organizational Contexts of Autonomy and Effectiveness in Thai Public Sector Organizations* (Tippawan Lorsuwannarat) (pdf)

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

12.00 – 14.00 Third Study Group Session: Agencies, accountability and reform – a country perspective

Discussants: Paul Sanderson
Papers:
• Agencies and Effects – Autonomy and Functional Politicization in the German Core Executive (Falk Ebinger) (pdf)
• Accountability in the Shadow of Hierarchy. Horizontal Accountability and Dutch Agencies (Anton Schillemans) (pdf)
• Cultural Perspectives on Public Sector Reform. A Comparison Between the Spanish and Dutch Railway Sector (Hanneke Duijnhoven) (pdf)
• Governance reforms of the German Public Employment Service and job placement (Holger Schütz) (pdf)

14.00 – 16.00 Lunch Break: Permanent Practitioners Group – Platform

16.00 – 17.30 Fourth Study Group Session: Coordination and autonomy

Discussants: Roger Wettenhall
Papers:
• The Evolution of Coordination – Conceptualizing the Need for and Tools of Coordination in the Public Sector (Manfred Röber and Eckhard Schröter) (paper delivery unsure)
• The Challenge of Coordination in Central Government Organizations (Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid) (pdf)
• The conquerors of coordination: How policy units affect departmental autonomy in UK and Germany (Julia Fleisher) (pdf)
• Learning State & Blame. The Politics Of Independent Crisis Inquiries (Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan – substituting contribution of David Levi-Faur) (pdf)

17.30 – 18.00 Coffee Break

18.00 – 19.30 Host Country Panel: Multilevel governance: The Spanish
experience

21.00 - Gala Dinner

Friday, 21 September 2007

08.00 – 10.00 Fifth Study Group Session: specialization and coordination in specific countries and sectors

Discussants: Martin Lodge
Papers:
• Why Public Organisations Collaborate: Confronting Meta-governance Theory with Evidence from Services for Homeless People in England (Oliver James and Alice Moseley) (pdf)
• Tackling the challenge of government-wide coordination: the influence of the decision making process leading to a coordination policy - A New Zealand case study (Eva Beuselinck) (pdf)
• ‘The Impact of Regime Type on Policy Coordination in Two Chinese Cities: Food Safety in Beijing and Hong Kong’ (John Burns) (pdf)
• Paper:“Establishment of Food Safety Authorities in Norway and New Zealand - Towards more Coordination and less Fragmentation? (Amund Lie) (pdf)

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break

10.30 – 12.00 Sixth Study Group Session: Governance of regulation (3 papers)

Discussants: Kutsal Yesilkagut
Papers:
• The regulation of governance. Multi-organisational regimes, public debate and regulatory change (Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich) (pdf)
• Towards a Model of Stakeholder Influence in Regulatory Decision-making (Paul Sanderson) (pdf)
• Contribution of Levi-Faur is cancelled

10.30 – 12.30 Platform for European National Sections and Journals’ Editors
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee Break
12.30 – 14.00 EGPA Annual General Assembly and Closing Ceremony
14.30 - Cocktail