Opening session of the Study Group VI

Session 1: Taking stock: agencification in different countries

Discussant (first two papers): Birgitta Niklasson

Discussant (last two papers): Reto Steiner

Papers:

• Agencies in Croatia: Something new or something old? (Anamarija Musa) - pdf
• Agencification in Pakistan: A Comparative Study of Regulatory  and Service Delivery Agencies (Ayesha Rizwan, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon) - pdf
• New Public Management in Danish and Swedish state administration – explaining varying patterns of adoption (Morten Balle Hansen, Birgitta Niklasson) - pdf
• Autonomy and control of Australian integrity agencies (Chris Aulich) - pdf

Reception

Session 2: Time and evolutions: longitudinal perspectives on public sector organisation

Discussant (first two papers): Agnes Batory

Discussant (last paper): Muiris MacCarthaigh

Papers

• Dynamics of organizational structures of the public institutions in Romania.  Case study – central public institutions in Romania (Corina Georgiana Lazăr) - pdf
• Development of administrative structure in Estonia 1989-2009: communist legacy, political strategies or external pressures? (Külli Sarapuu) - pdf
• Managing emergent and complex change. The case of Dutch agencification (Walter J.M. Kickert) - pdf (paper will not be presented)
• Opening the black box : agencies as socio-technical networks (C. Fallon,  G. Joris, F.Thoreau) - pdf

Session 3: Life and death of agencies

Discussant (all three papers): Tom Christensen

Papers:

• Where do agencies go when they die? A longitudinal analysis of agency termination (Muiris MacCarthaigh) - pdf
• Anti-corruption agencies in the ‘new’ EU member states: Life-cycles and electoral cycles (Agnes Batory) - pdf
• Insourcing of Local Government Services in Germany: Rolling Back Privatization? (Arsen Fazlovic, Felix Volgmann)

Session 4: Agencies as policy designers

Discussant (first two papers): Muhammad Zafar Iqbal

Discussant (last two papers): Chris Aulich

Papers:

• Policy development, implementation, and expertise: the relationship between task characteristics and role perceptions of public sector organisations (Tobias Bach) - pdf
• A Political Administration? Policy Activities of Swedish Authorities (Birgitta Niklasson, Jon Pierre) - pdf - tables pdf- appendix pdf
• Policy Autonomy in Public Sector Agencies: Are Portuguese Bureaucrats Making Policy? (Silvia M. Mendes) - pdf
• Moving beyond the clash of interests (Thomas Schillemans) - pdf

Session 5: New perspectives on agency autonomy

Discussant (first two papers): Oliver James

Discussant (last two papers): Thomas Schillemans

Papers:

• National competition authorities between regulatory autonomy and political control: the case of the European competition network (Kutsal Yesilkagit , Ole Andreas Danielsen) - pdf
• Does organizational autonomy of regulatory agencies towards government affect their regulatory position and power? Comparative Case Study of the Belgian sector regulators in energy and telecommunication. (Joery Matthys, Koen Verhoest, David Aubin, Emmanuelle Mathieu, Karin Ingold) -pdf
• Towards an integrated concept of agency autonomy: Comparing the Austrian and Swiss Case (Reto Steiner, Gerhard Hammerschmidt, Etienne Huber, Karin Steigenberger) - pdf
• ‘Towards an integrated accountability model for the social enterprise’ (A. Geurtsen, P.J. Spenger, L. Schoormans) - pdf

Session 6: Outcomes

Discussant (first two papers): Gerhard Hammerschmid

Discussant: (last two papers): Arno Geurtsen

Papers:

• Working across boundaries: collegial administration in central government – scope and variation (Dag Arne Christensen, Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid, Tor Midtbø) - pdf
• Analysing Patterns of Organisation Structure and Policy Mission Change over Time: Methods and Evidence from UK Executive Agencies (George Boyne, Oliver James, Nicolai Petrovsky) (pdf)
• Effects of performance measurement practices on public performance: evidence from Portuguese government agencies and departments (Patrícia S. Gomes) - pdf
• Strategies for assessing and measuring agency accountability (Jan Biela and Yannis Papadopoulos) - pdf