First session (extra) - Cluster A. General coordination strategy in countries and in local authorities (2 papers)

Discussant: Tom Christensen

• “Coordination strategies in 7 OECD countries from 1980 to 2005: comparative findings”
Author(s): Geert Bouckaert, Guy Peters and Koen Verhoest
• "Big City Government - the Problem of Horizontal and Vertical Co-ordination"
Author(s): Manfred Röber and Eckhard Schröter

Second session - Cluster B. Proliferation and coordination of agencies at the local and regional level (2 papers)

Discussant: John Burns

• " Governance, Control and Accountability in the Municipal Corporate Groups: The Experience of the Large Italian Cities “ (pdf)
Author(s): Giuseppe Grossi
• “Local and Regional Non-Commercial Agencies in Ireland: Co-ordination, Autonomy and Accountability”
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Author(s): Muiris MacCarthaigh and Peter C. Humphreys

Discussant: Guy Peters

• “Institutional and organisational arrangements of donors' aid administrations: an analytical perspective on shifting coordination initiatives. Towards an assessment of the relevance of a neo-institutional framework” (pdf)
Author(s): Eva Beuselinck
• “International cooperation in crisis areas. A comparison of German and U.S. GO and NGO Strategies” (pdf)
Author(s): Lawrence R. Smith and Ulrike Schwegler
• “Devolution, Privatisation and Coordination in the Scandinavian Transport Sector” (pdf)
Author(s): Silvia Olsen

Fourth session - Cluster C2. Coordination in Food Safety (2 papers)

• “Organizing of cross-cutting issues in Norway-More coordination and control in the case of food safety?” (pdf)
Author(s): Amund Lie
• “Policy coordination in the implementation of food safety policy in Hong Kong”
Author(s): John P. Burns

Meeting of COBRA partners in order to discuss COBRA-specific issues: progress, future seminars, …

Fifth session - Cluster C3. Coordination in health, social and welfare sector (4 papers)

Discussant: John Halligan

• “The Enterprise Formula and Local Welfare Bureaucracies: An Anglo-German Comparison” (pdf)
Author(s): Paola Mattei
• “Coordinating an large-scaled negotiation process : the Social Security in Belgium” (pdf)
Author(s): Tom Auwers and Amaury Legrain
• " From joined up working to reorganisation and amalgamation: the re-regulation of the UK’s Public Employment and Social Security Agencies” (pdf)
Author(s): Jay Wiggan
• “Reform of employment and welfare administration – the challenges of coordination of diverge public organizations” (pdf)
Author(s): Tom Christensen, Anne Lise Fimreite, and Per Lægreid

Sixth session - Cluster D. Coordination and cooperation at the grass-root level (3 papers)

Discussant: Peter Humphreys

• “Effective partnership working in healthcare” (pdf)
Author(s): Lawrence Benson and Gillian Wright
• "Co-ordinating Government from the Bottom-up? Implementation Gaps in Joined-up Government Initiatives and Alternative forms of Street-level Self-Steering" (pdf)
Author(s): Oliver James and Alice Moseley
• “Evaluating Partnership Working for the Delivery of Public Service in the UK”
Author(s): Rob Ball