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.

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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.