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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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sbov Policy Research Centre - Governmental organization in Flanders

cocopsCoordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future

spatialistSpatial Data Infrastructure and Public Sector Innovation

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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.

 

 

Some recent publications

PSO spatial change
  • Aertsen Tamara, Gelders Dave (2012). Differences between the public and private communication of rumors. Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, 9-10 februari, Leuven: KU Leuven. 22 p.
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  • Bouckaert Geert, Brans Marleen (2012). Governing without Government: Lessons from Belgium?s Caretaker Government. Governance: an international journal of policy and administration. 7(3): 54-77
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  • Brans Marleen, Peters B. Guy (2012). Rewards for High Public Office in Europe and North America. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 320 p.
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  • Brewer Gene A., Ritz Adrian, Vandenabeele Wouter (2012). Introduction to a symposium on public service motivation: an international sampling of research. International Journal of Public Administration. 35 (1) : 1-4
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