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SOG’s Berlin conference moved to November 4-5
UPDATE: The Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee (SOG), sponsor of Governance, will hold its next conference in Berlin on November 4-5, 2010. (This is a slight adjustment of dates.) UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS. The conference’s hosts are the Hertie School of Governance and the Center for Social Investment, Heidelberg. The theme for the conference is Crisis as Opportunity: States, Markets and Communities in Turbulent Times.
Governance roundtable on impact of crisis scheduled for Boston, November 13
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.SOG’s Santiago meeting a success
The Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee (SOG), the academic sponsor of Governance, had a successful series of discussions during the IPSA annual conference in Santiago, Chile on July 12-16. SOG hosted four panels at the conference, featuring the contributions of scholars from fifteen countries. Photo: Governance co-editor Robert Cox of the University of Oklahoma reports to the SOG executive board on July 13.
Schedule for SOG sessions at IPSA’s Santiago conference
SOG is the Structure and Organization of Government Committee of the International Political Science Association, the academic sponsor of Governance. IPSA will have its annual conference in Santiago, Chile on July 12-16, 2009. Here is the preliminary schedule for SOG sessions in Santiago:
RC27.198, July 13, 1500-1655hrs: “Re-Building Bureaucracy in a Post-Bureaucratic Age: Theories and Empirical Implications”
RC27.307, July 13, 1100-1255hrs: “Administrative Reforms Today: From NPM Models to Neo-Weberian Bureaucratization?”
RC27.369: July 14, 0900-1055hrs: “Comparing Representative Democracies: Japan, Korea and the U.S.”
RC27.408, July 14, 1500-1655hrs: “Papers on the Structure and Organization of Government”
And the SOG business meeting will be on July 13 at 0900hrs.
More details about the papers and authors here: IPSA_SOG_Santiago
More details on the conference available at http://www.santiago2009.org/microsite/
