Governance is co-sponsor of a roundtable that will examine the longer-term effects of the financial crisis on public governance, to be held at Suffolk University Law School on Friday, November 13. Download details here: Agenda_Nov13. Boston-area scholars are invited to participate. Other co-sponsors are the School of Public Policy, University College London, and the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service, Suffolk University Law School. A follow-on roundtable will be held in London in May 2010.Archive for October, 2009
Governance roundtable on impact of crisis scheduled for Boston, November 13
Published October 31, 2009 Conferences Leave a CommentGovernance is co-sponsor of a roundtable that will examine the longer-term effects of the financial crisis on public governance, to be held at Suffolk University Law School on Friday, November 13. Download details here: Agenda_Nov13. Boston-area scholars are invited to participate. Other co-sponsors are the School of Public Policy, University College London, and the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service, Suffolk University Law School. A follow-on roundtable will be held in London in May 2010.Hahm, Governance board member, calls for constitutional reform in South Korea
Published October 24, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
Sung Deuk Hahm, professor of public administration at Korea University and a member of Governance‘s editorial board, has called for constitutional reforms that would see “the end of imperialistic presidency” in South Korea. Hahm’s proposals are described in a news report in the October 23 issue of the Korea Times.
Dalhousie University at Halifax will host a symposium and dinner in honor of Professor Peter Aucoin on November 12-13. Aucoin, a long-time SOG member and Governance contributor, taught at Dalhousie University for nearly forty years before his recent retirement. More details about the symposium and dinner here. Aucoin’s article Administrative Reform in Public Management: Paradigms, Principles, Paradoxes and Pendulums (Governance 3.2, April 1990) has been cited over five hundred times, according to Scholar Google. The article examines the collision of two schools of thought in administrative reform — one rooted in public choice theory, and the other in managerialism. Aucoin was also named to the Order of Canada last year.
New books on public sector employment
Published October 11, 2009 New books by SOG members Leave a CommentTags: new books, public sector employment, public services
SOG member Hans-Ulrich Derlien of Universität Bamberg is co-editor of a new two-volume study, The State at Work, published by Edward Elgar Publishing. The two volumes explore the radical changes that have taken place in the configuration of national public services because of the expansion of public employment, followed by stagnation and retrenchment. Read more about Volume One, Public Sector Employment in Ten Western Countries, and Volume Two, Comparative Public Service Systems.
This newsletter will profile new books published by SOG members. Membership is $30 in North America, €32 in Europe, and £20 in the rest of the world. It includes a subscription to the print edition of Governance. Join here.
The 2010 Levine Book Prize Committee is comprised of Professor Mirko Noordegraaf, Utrecht School of Governance (Chair); Professor Susan Phillips, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University; and Professor Anthony B.L. Cheung, Hong Kong Institute of Education. Information about the prize, and directions on how to nominate a book, are provided on the Levine Prize page. Nominated books must reach all three members of the committee by 31 March 2010.
The decline of patronage in the United Kingdom
Published October 3, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: delegation, patronage, United Kingdom
The number of quasi-autonomous agencies, boards and commissions within British government has grown markedly in the last three decades, provoking anxiety about the re-emergence of a “patronage state.” In the current issue of Governance, Matthew Flinders challenges the conventional wisdom, arguing that “the recent history of patronage in the UK is a narrative of shrinking reach and diluted permeation.” This is largely because of the expanding role of the Office of the Commissioner of Public Appointments, a post created in 1995,and the subsequent creation of bodies with similar powers in specific policy fields. “The creation of OCPA,” says Flinders, “marked the beginning . . . of a period of rapid reform of patronage in the UK.” Read more: The Politics of Patronage in the United Kingdom: Shrinking Reach and Diluted Permeation, in 22.4 (October 2009).
Economic crisis and the establishment of Turkey’s independent central bank
Published October 3, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: central bank, economic policy, monetary policy, policy entrepreneurs, reform, Turkey
In the October issue of Governance, Caner Bakir of Koç University explains a “radical policy reform” — the establishment of Turkey’s independent central bank in 2001. Bakir focuses on the critical role of a policy entrepreneur — Kemal Dervis, a World Bank official newly appointed as Turkey’s treasury minister — and his success in seizing the opportunity presented by Turkey’s 2001 economic crisis, the most severe in its history. Dervis, says Bakir, built a powerful reform group centered on the Ministry of the Economy, and “was also instrumental in utilizing coercion by conscious manipulation of incentives by the IMF to press for the implementation of the program.” Read more: Policy Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change: Multilevel Governance of Central Banking Reform.
Starr discusses forthcoming commentary
Published October 1, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: commentary, liberalism, technology, United States