The GOVERNANCE blog

SOG is the IPSA Structure and Organization of Government Committee, the sponsor of Governance.  SOG member Robert H. Cox of the University of Oklahoma and Daniel Beland of the University of Saskatchewan are co-editors of a new book from Oxford University Press, Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research.  Frank Dobbin of Harvard University says that the book “provides cutting edge theoretical tools for conceptualizing ideas in the policy process, and illustrates these with a series of compelling case studies.”  Read more about the book.

SOG members David Coen (University College London) and Graham Wilson (Boston University) are co-editors, with Wyn Grant (University of Warwick), of the Oxford Handbook of Business and Government, just published by Oxford University Press.  The book “provides an authoritative overview with chapters by leading authorities on the current state of knowledge of business-government relations.”  OUP is offering a twenty percent discount on orders.

SOG member Raj Chari has a new book, co-authored with Gary Murphy and John Hogan, published by Manchester University Press: Regulating Lobbying: A Global Comparison.  Frank Baumgartner calls it “the single best resource for anyone interested in the topic of the regulation of lobbying or political transparency.”  Learn more about the book, and read the first chapter, at regulatelobbying.com.  Chari is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin.

A new book, Change and Continuity in Public Sector Organizations (Fagborkforlaget, 2009), has been published to honor Per Lægreid, SOG’s Secretary-Treasurer.  The edited volume includes contributions from Geert Bouckaert, Tom Christensen, Morten Egeberg, Anne Lise Fimreite, Robert Gregory, John Halligan, Bengt Jacobsson, Werner Jann, James G. March, Johan P. Olsen, Ove K. Pedersen and Per Selle.  The editors are Paul G. Roness and Harald Sætren of the University of Bergen.

SOG is the Structure and Organization of Government Group of the International Political Science Association, which sponsors Governance.  Learn how to join SOG.  SOG members receive a subscription to the print version of Governance.  New members in the month of January 2010 will receive a complementary copy of Paul Starr’s book Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism.

SOG member Christopher Pollitt of the Public Management Institute at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is co-author, with Geert Bouckaert, of a new book from Edward Elgar Press: Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management.  The book provides a long-term view of policy developments in major public services in England and Belgium over the last half-century.  John Halligan says that the book contains “a pioneering and profound analysis that few current books in public policy and management can equal.”  Download the flyer.

SOG is the Structure and Organization of Government Group of the International Political Science Association, which sponsors Governance.  Learn how to join SOG.  SOG members receive a subscription to the print version of Governance.  New subscribers in the month of January 2010 will receive a complementary copy of Paul Starr’s book Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism.

SOG member Edoardo Ongaro of Bocconi University and the SDA Bocconi School of Management is author of a new book from Edward Elgar Press:  Public Management Reform and Modernization: Trajectories of Administrative Change in Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and Spain. Guy Peters calls it “a major contribution to understanding the political and administrative systems of Southern Europe . . . [and] an excellent example of comparative analysis in general.”

SOG is the Structure and Organization of Government Group of the International Political Science Association, which sponsors Governance.  Learn how to join SOG.  SOG members receive a subscription to the print version of Governance.  New subscribers in the month of January 2010 will receive a complementary copy of Paul Starr’s book Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism.

Governance book review editor Clay Wescott and SOG member Bidhya Bowornwathana are co-editors, with L.R. Jones, of a new book from Emerald Books: The Many Faces of Public Management Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region.  The collection of essays examines three categories of reforms within Asian public sectors: corruption and anti-corruption initiatives, public financial management reforms, and public management reforms within an emphasis on performance and results.

SOG is the Structure and Organization of Government Group of the International Political Science Association, which sponsors Governance.  Learn how to join SOG.  SOG members receive a subscription to the print version of Governance.

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.

SOG co-chair Philippe Bezes is the author of a new book, Réinventer l’État, published by Presses Universitaires de France.   Details about the book– a study of administrative reform in France from the sixties to now, with a neo-institutionalist perspective — are available here.

SOG is the Structure and Organization of Government Committee of the International Political Science Association, the sponsor of Governance. Details on how to join SOG are available here.  SOG memberships include a subscription to Governance.

SOG member David Coen is the co-editor (with Jeremy Richardson) of a new book, Lobbying the European Union: Institutions, Actors, and Issues, published by Oxford University Press.   Details about the book– and information on how to obtain a 20 percent discount on its price — are available here.

SOG is the Structure and Organization of Government Group of the International Political Science Association, the sponsor of Governance. Details on how to join SOG are available here.  SOG memberships include a subscription to Governance.