Opening session

Keynote speakers

Coffee Break

Opening session of the Study Group VI

Session 1: Models of administrative reforms in public sector organisation

Papers:

• Democracy and administrative policy: contrasting elements of NPM and post-NPM (Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid) (pdf)
• Bureaucracy; an idea whose time has come (again) (Haldor Byrkjeflot and Paul du Gay) (pdf)
• The Danish public administration model and the challenges of globalisation (Hanne Foss Hansen and Torben Beck Jørgensen) (pdf)

Discussant: Sandra Van Thiel

Session 2: Longitudinal perspectives on public sector organisation and administrative reforms

Papers

• The rise of executive agencies: comparing the agencification of 25 tasks in 21 countries (Sandra van Thiel & CRIPO team) (pdf)
• Development of Institutional Structure in Estonia: dynamics in the core of government 1989-2009 (Külli Sarapuu) (pdf)

Discussant: Vitalis Nakrosis

• Can bureau-shaping theory explain organisational change in public sector organisations? (Patrik Hall, Tom Nilsson and Karl Löfgren) (pdf)

Discussant: Torben Beck Jorgensen

Session 3: Models of administrative reform in social service organisations

Papers:

• Reforming Health Care Service Delivery:Exploring New Models of Organisation in the NHS and their Implications on Autonomy and Control (Silvia M. Mendes; Antonio F. Tavares; Joaquim F. Araujo) (pdf)
• Decentralisation, stakeholder involvement and quality: A look at the National Health Service (NHS) (Gianluca Veronesi and Kevin Keasey) (pdf)

Discussant: Haldor Byrkjeflot

• Centralisation and Specialisation in Swedish Public Administration (Johan Quist and Anna Pauloff) (pdf)

Discussant: Paul Roness

Session 4: Autonomy, control and administrative reforms

Papers:

• Determinants of autonomy in Italian agencies ( Dario Barbieri; Paolo Fedele; Davide Galli and Edoardo Ongaro) (pdf)

Discussant: Patrick Hall

• The setting up, autonomy, control and performance of the Lithuanian public sector organisations: tentative findings and suggestions for further research (Vitalis Nakrošis and Žilvinas Martinaitis) (pdf)
• Public Corporate Governance in a Country with a Pronounced Administrative Law Tradition - Current empirical findings from Austria (Karin Steigenberger, Gerhard Hammerschmid) (pdf)

Discussant: Birgitte Poulsen

Session 5: Coordination and administrative reforms

Papers:

• The coordination of ‘wicked issues’. The case of internal security in Norway. (Lise Hellebø Rykkja) (pdf)
• Messing with networked power games – The messy impact of metagoverning national employment policies through OMC (Birgitte Poulsen) (pdf)
• Governing by commission in The Netherlands? (Martin Schulz and Mark van Twist) (pdf)

Discussant: Johan Quist

Session 6: Effects of administrative reforms

Discussants: (to be confirmed)

Papers:

• Explaining innovative behaviour of state agencies in Nordic and Latin countries (Per Lægreid, Paul G. Roness and Koen Verhoest) (pdf)
• New Public Management Reforms in European Countries: Did Promises Come True? Empirical Evidence from the Telecommunication Sector  (Carina Schmitt and Philipp Schuster) (pdf)

Discussant: Martin Schulz (together with Mark van Twist)

• “Consequences, risks and challenges of unfinished administrative NPM-reforms: Exploration of the vertical specialisation, control & coordination in the Flemish administration after the reform ‘Beter Bestuurlijk Beleid” (Diederik Vancoppenolle) (pdf)

Discussant: Tom Christensen