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For developing countries: Post-crisis dissensus
In the current issue of Governance, Matt Andrews of Harvard Kennedy School considers how the financial crisis will shape the trajectory of public sector reform in developing countries. Before the...
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The double bind in economic policymaking
In psychiatry, a double bind is a dilemma that produces acute distress. In the current issue of Governance, John Zysman and Dan Breznitz argue that this is the situation of policymakers following the...
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Book reviews: Egypt, India, learning
In the current issue of Governance, Ariel Ahram of the University of Oklahoma reviews Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt by Lisa Blaydes. “It is difficult to pick up a book about...
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Call for papers: SOG conference in Jerusalem January 5-7, 2014
The next conference of the IPSA Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee (SOG) will be hosted by the Department of Political Science and the Federman School of Public Policy at the...
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Has crisis changed the IMF?
Cornel Ban and Daniela Gabor, Bristol Business School Has the global economic crisis changed the International Monetary Fund — and if so, how? These were the questions posed at a roundtable held at...
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Call for papers: SOG panels at IPSA 2014 in Montreal
The academic sponsor of Governance is SOG: the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association. SOG has issued a call for paper and panel...
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Wilson, Rockman receive Kloeti Award
Wilson and Rockman At the January meeting of the IPSA Research Committee on Structure and Organization of Government in Jerusalem, Graham Wilson of Boston University and Bert Rockman of Purdue...
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Hebrew University hosts successful conference
The IPSA Research Committee on Structure and Organization of Government held its annual conference, hosted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on January 5-7. The theme was: “what makes...
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Call for papers: SOG in Bergen, February 2015
The IPSA Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government (SOG) invites paper proposals for a conference to be held at the University of Bergen, Norway, on February 19-20, 2015. The...
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SOG research committee has successful meeting at IPSA World Congress
The IPSA Research Committee on Structure and Organization of Government (SOG) held ten panels during the 23rd IPSA World Congress 2014 that took place in Montreal, Québec, Canada on 19-24 July. These...
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Call for papers: Fudan symposium on governance in China
Governance will partner with the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University, and other institutions, to organize a symposium on governance in China in October 2015. The...
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Call for papers: Quality of governance in China
The School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University will host a conference on governance in China on October 16-17, 2015. The meeting “seeks to explain China’s recent...
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Call for short papers: Is public management research neglecting the state?
Professors Brint Milward and Alasdair Roberts invite expressions of interest from academics interested in participating in a panel to be held at the Public Management Research Conference at Aarhus...
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Public management and the state: Beginning a dialogue between two worlds
This draft comment has been prepared for a panel on public management research and the state to be held at the research conference of the Public Management Research Association at the University of...
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Comment: In defense of big questions
This draft comment has been prepared for a panel on public management research and the state to be held at the research conference of the Public Management Research Association at the University of...
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Perverse incentives discourage attention to big questions
Robert F. Durant responds to Don Kettl’s commentary on the neglect of big questions in public administration: As usual, Don Kettl makes several excellent points in his commentary about the so-called...
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Commentaries on power of US presidents to authorize war
John Yoo at March 16 debate Governance has just published two commentaries tied to a March 16 debate organized by the Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri....
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Debate: Is American government too open?
It’s been 50 years since the U.S. Congress adopted the Freedom of Information Act, which provides access to documents held by federal agencies. Since 1966, Congress has adopted many other laws...
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Roundtable: Is public management neglecting the state?
Public Management is a field of research and teaching that is now almost four decades old. But questions have been raised about its scope and methods of inquiry. In a roundtable for Governance, ten...
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Roundtable at PMRC 2016 in Aarhus
Photo by Raul Pacheco-Vega The recent roundtable in Governance, “Is Public Management Neglecting the State?” was discussed at the Public Management Research Conference at Aarhus University on June 24....
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