AGENCIES IN TIME OF CRISIS

Chair: Sandra van Thiel

Discussants: Patrik Hall/Karl Lofgren

Papers:

• Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid: Competing principles of agency organization – the reorganization of a reform. (pdf)
• John Halligan: The Conundrum of Agencies within Australian Public Sector Reform (pdf)

AGENCIES IN TIME OF CRISIS

Chair: Per Laegreid

Discussant: Tom Christensen

Papers:

• Gyorgy Hajnal: The changing motives of (de)agencification: Some evidence from Hungary (pdf)
• Maria Asensio: Has Agencification Succeeded or Failed in Public Sector Reform? The Case of Portugal (pdf)

AUTONOMY & AGENCIES

Chair: Koen Verhoest

Discussant: Sandra Van Thiel

Papers:

• Sjors Overman: Resisting Governmental Control. How Agencies Use Strategic Resources to Resist State Coordination (pdf)
• Karl Lofgren and Patrik Hall: Bureaucratic autonomy revisited (pdf)

REGULATION

Chair: Sandra van Thiel

Discussant: Jari Stenvall

Papers:

• Thomas Elston: Developments in UK Executive Agencies: Re-examining the Disaggregation-Reaggregation Thesis (pdf)
• Emmanuelle Mathieu, Koen Verhoest and Jorey Matthys: Regulatory agencies and multi-actor institutional constellations: A method to measure coordination, actors' influence, and centralization (pdf)

REGULATION

Chair: Per Laegreid

Discussant: Lise H. Rykkja

Papers:

• Jan Rommel, Joery Matthys and Koen Verhoest: Coordination between Regulatory Actors on a National and International Scale; Case study of the Belgian energy sector regulatory agencies (pdf)
• Maarja Beerkens: Autonomy and control in the higher education quality regulation: Insights from new accountability instruments (pdf)

PERFORMANCE

Chair: Koen Verhoest

Discussant: John Halligan

Papers:

• Niels Ejersbo and Karwen Ejersbo Iversen: Inter-agency collaboration and the implementation of Shared Administrative Service Centers and centralized IT systems (pdf)
• Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud: The influence of performance audits on civil servants – what contributes the most to improvements in the audited entities? (pdf)

AGENCIES AT LOCAL LEVEL

Chair: Sandra van Thiel

Discussant: Niels Ejersbo

Papers:

• Ola Mattisson and Ulf Ramberg: Governance versus ownership – establishing jointly owned local government organizations. (pdf)
• Jari Stenvall, Pasi-Hekki Rannisto, Kari Hakari and Antti Syväjärvi: Steering by contracts – A governing model for municipalities? (pdf)