Study Group Co-Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Per LAGREID, Bergen University (Norway)
Dr. Koen VERHOEST, Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Dr. Sandra van THIEL, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Schedule
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| Wednesday, 07/09/2011 |
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| 14.30 -16.15 |
Conference Opening Session
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| 16.30 – 18.30
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Session 1 : Agencies in Time of Crisis
Chair: Sandra van THIEL
Discussant: Patrik HALL/Karl LOFGREN
Papers:
- Tom CHRISTENSEN, University of Oslo (Norway) and Per LÆGREID, University of Bergen (Norway)
Competing principles of agency organization – the reorganization of a reform
- John HALLIGAN, University of Canberra (Australia)
The Conundrum of Agencies within Australian Public Sector Reform
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| Thursday, 08/09/2011 |
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| 08.30 – 10.30 |
Session 2 : Agencies in Time of Crisis
Chair: Per LÆGREID
Discussant: TOM CHRISTENSEN
Papers:
- Gyorgy HAJNAL, Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary) The changing motives of (de)agencification: Some evidence from Hungary
- Maria ASENSIO, INA (Portugal) Has Agencification Succeeded or Failed in Public Sector Reform? The Case of Portugal
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| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11.00 – 12.30 |
Session 3 : Autonomy and Agencies
Chair: Koen VERHOEST
Discussant: Sandra Van THIEL
Papers:
- Sjors OVERMAN, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Resisting Governmental Control. How Agencies Use Strategic Resources to Resist State Coordination
- Karl LOFGREN, Roskilde University (Denmark) and Patrik HALL, Malmö University (Sweden), Bureaucratic autonomy revisited
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| 12.30 – 14.00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14.00– 16.00 |
Session 4 : Regulation
Chair: Sandra Van THIEL
Discussant: Jari STENVALL
Papers:
- Thomas ELSTON, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), Developments in UK Executive Agencies: Re-examining the Disaggregation-Reaggregation Thesis
- Emmanuelle MATHIEU, European University Institute (Italy) Koen VERHOEST, Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and Joery MATTHYS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) Regulatory agencies and multi-actor institutional constellations: A method to measure coordination, actors’ influence, and centralization
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| 16.00 -16.30 |
Coffee break |
| 16.30 -18.30 |
Session 5 : Regulation
Chair: Per LÆGREID
Discussant: Lise H. RYKKJA
Papers:
- Jan ROMMEL, Joery MATTHYS and Koen VERHOEST, Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Coordination between Regulatory Actors on a National and International Scale; Case study of the Belgian energy sector regulatory agencies
- Maarja BEERKENS, Leiden University (The Netherlands),Autonomy and control in the higher education quality regulation: Insights from new accountability instruments
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| Friday, 09/09/2011 |
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| 08.30 – 10.30 |
Session 6 : Performance
Chair: Koen VERHOEST
Discussant: John HALLIGAN
Papers:
- Niels EJERSBO, Univesity of Southern Denmark (Denmark) and Karwen EJERSBO IVERSEN, Ministry of Finance (Denmark), Inter-agency collaboration and the implementation of Shared Administrative Service Centers and centralized IT systems
- Kristin REICHBORN-KJENNERUD, University of Bergen (Norway), The influence of performance audits on civil servants – what contributes the most to improvements in the audited entities?
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| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11.00 – 13.00 |
Session 7: Agencies at Local Level
Chair: Sandra van THIEL
Discussant: Niels EJERSBO
Papers:
- Ola MATTISSON and Ulf RAMBERG, Lund University (Sweden),Governance versus ownership – establishing jointly owned local government organizations
- Jari STENVALL, University of Lapland (Finland); Pasi-Hekki RANNISTO, University of Tampere (Finland) Kari HAKARI and Antti SYVÄJÄRVI, City of Tampere (Finland), Steering by contracts – A governing model for municipalities?
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| 13.00 – 14.30 |
Lunch Break |
| 14.30– 16.30 |
EGPA General Assembly and Closing Session
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