PSG VIII: Public Governance of Societal Sectors

Chair: Bram VERSCHUERE

This session will be a Round Table. After short presentations, a discussant will summarise the joint findings and start a debate on the key issues.

A. GEURTSEN, Zijlstra Center for Public Control & Governance (The Netherlands) & P. J. SPRENGER, TiasNimbas  Business School (The Netherlands)

Accountability and legitimacy of social enterprises; a difficult but inevitable relationship.

S.A. FAROOQI, University of Stirling (UK)

Decentralization and organizational performance: the case study of service delivery reforms in Pakistan under Devolution Plan 2001.

M. van GENUGTEN, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) & J. SVENSSON, University of Twente (The Netherlands)

Equal treatment support in the Netherlands: a failing interorganizational field

F. de VIJLDER, B. LINDEMANN, D. BAKKER

VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

The value of the governance scale: ten large, complex educational organizations on a group photo.

Drink with the participants

Debate: The Future of Professionalism

Chair: Bram VERSCHUERE

The nature of professionalism has been a key issue in public governance discussions during the past decades. This session presents a provocative new book on the subject.

The new publication ‘Professional Pride’ focuss on professional

identities among police officers, teachers, judges, doctors, nurses, social workers and other professionals. The book is aimed at supporting this development and takes a stand against trends, such as managerialism, that hollow out professional practice.

But is this perspective on the issue valid? Does it raise the right questions? Taco Brandsen, Marlies Honingh and Willem Trommel will present critical reflections on the book and kick off the discussion.

Policy Brief Session: Can we Change the World?

Chair: Willem A. TROMMEL

The EGPA is a distinguished academic forum. However, it is our belief the EGPA’s role as a European forum could be strengthened by addressing policymakers more directly. In our Study Group, we discuss issues of political and social relevance, but their effect on the practice of public administration will be limited if we confine ourselves to academic publication. This is why we will experiment with a first EGPA policy brief.

Willem Trommel, Taco Brandsen and Bram Verschuere have drafted a first version of such a brief and are anxious to receive input.

Chair: Willem A. TROMMEL

This session will be a Round Table. After short presentations, a discussant will summarise the joint findings and start a debate on the key issues.

S. FERREIRA, University of Coimbra (Portugal)

The paradox of the state and the third sector: a case study of the complexity of welfare governance through local partnerships

T. YOSHIDA, Kinki University (Japan) K. KANAGAWA University of Shizuoka (Japan), H. TOGO, Kinki University (Japan)

Institutionalization of new community empowerment and local infrastructure organizations: a case study of Kobe after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

S. FRANZONI, G. GANDINI, University of Brescia (Italy)

Public governance of social services in Italy: present status and future prospects.

Alketa PECI, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil)

The “invasion” of manufactured civil society: government-nonprofit partnerships in a Brazilian state

Chair: Taco BRANDSEN

This session will be a Round Table. After short presentations, a discussant will summarise the joint findings and start a debate on the key issues.

K. van EIJCK, B. LINDEMANN, VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Bicycling without training wheels: A study on social

entrepreneurship in Dutch education

G. VONK , University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

Strengthening the role of new civil society organisations in contemporary social markets.

Daniel POP and Roxana Georgiana RADU, University of Geneva (Switzerland/Romania)

Commissioning education services delivery at a cross-road: towards a paradigm shift in public and third sector relationships

Discussion of planned book publication

We are planning to compose an edited volume, based on contributions to our PSG. What should be its focus?