2011 | Action Number: IS0601

Governing Public Agencies in the 21st Century: International Lessons and policy recommendations by the COST Action IS0601

• Author(s): K. Verhoest, S. van Thiel, G. Bouckaert & P. Laegreid and the COST-CRIPO/COBRA network
• Publisher(s): K.U. Leuven
• http://soc.kuleuven.be/io/eng/search/result.php?author=&year=&title=cobra&theme=&type=&submit2=Search

This policy brief is the result of COST Action IS0601, named CRIPO (Comparative Research into Current Trends in Public Sector Organization), which ran for four years, from early 2007 till early 2011. The main objective of the Action was to increase knowledge about current trends in public sector organization in Europe from a European perspective, in an international context, in order to deepen theoretical rigour and optimize methodologies, which inspire sound and policy-relevant research conclusions.