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The main objective of the Public Management Institute is to improve public management, public organization and public policy. The Institute attempts to function as an interface between the university and the public sector. Read more ...

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  • Call for papers: Conference 'Validating methods for comparing public policy: academia and government in dialogue', KU Leuven, Belgium 27-30 November 2013. More information

 

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Belgium's experimant: 590 days without government

In the current issue of Governance (25.2, April 2012), four distinguished Belgian academics discuss what happened when the country's parties spent almost six hundred days after the June 2010 elections negotiating over a new government.
Meanwhile Geert Bouckaert and Marleen Brans of the University of Leuven argue that the crisis was actually a period "when two types of transitional governments operated together: a caretaker one, which was disappearing, and a 'constituent' one, which was emerging." Open access to their commentary.

 

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  • Aubin David, Verhoest Koen (2013). Multi-level regulation in the telecommunications sector: Adaptive regulatory arrangements in Belgium, Ireland, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. expected.
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  • Bourgault Jacques, Van Dorpe Karolien (2013). Managerial reforms, public service bargains and top civil servant identity. International Review of Administrative Sciences. Special issue. 79(1)
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  • Fobe Ellen, Brans Marleen (2013). Policy-oriented foresight as evidence for policy-making: conditions of (mis)match. Evidence & Policy. submitted
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  • Fobe Ellen, Brans Marleen, Vancoppenolle Diederik, Van Damme Jan (2013). Institutionalized advisory systems: an analysis of member satisfaction of advice production and use across nine strategic advisory councils in Flanders (Belgium). Policy and Society. 68 p.
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