Geert Bouckaert Community of Practice on Results Based Management Brussels, January 8th, 2014 Public Sector Reform: general trends in the OECD

1.Trajectories of reform 2.Pressure for performance 3.Specialisation for performance 4.Participation for performance 5.General trajectories and next steps

1.Trajectories of reform

2.Pressure for performance

2. Pressure for performance: Trust as ‘Income’

2.Pressure for performance: Trust as cause and effect

Integrating micro-meso-macro performance frameworks

2.Pressure for performance Performance administration Managements of performances Performance management Performance governance

3.Specialisation for performance

4.Participation for performance Co-Quality Model (CQM) Co-design Co-decide Co-implement Co-evaluatie

5.General trajectories and next steps Typologies: Maintain, Modernise, Marketise, Minimise Models: New Public Management, Neo-Weberian State, New Public Governance

Is it possible to reform? Pollitt: SSS: Slogans, Short Term, Savings Research of COCOPS: little evidence, many perceptions Crisis versus reform

5.General trajectories and next steps Rebuild trust within the public sector Rebalance trust based and performance based control systems Renew co-ordination (smart hierarchies, citizen focused markets, sustainable networks) Use a Performance Governance framework Build societal consensus for reform Add a meso focus (policy) to the micro focus (organisation) Anticipate problems caused by ‘solutions’

References Verhoest Koen, Van Thiel Sandra, Bouckaert Geert, Laegreid Per (Eds) (2012) Government Agencies: Practices and Lessons from 30 Countries. Palgrave McMillan, Basingstoke, 474 p. Pollitt Christopher, Bouckaert Geert (2011, 3d expanded ed.) Public Management Reform, A Comparative Analysis - NPM, Governance and the Neo-Weberian State. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 367 p. Bouckaert Geert, Peters B. Guy, Verhoest Koen (2010) The Coordination of Public Sector Organisations. Palgrave McMillan,Basingstoke, 311 p. Van Dooren Wouter, Geert Bouckaert, John Halligan (2010) Performance Management in the Public Sector. Routledge: London, pp. 208 Bouckaert Geert, Peters B. Guy, Verhoest Koen (2010) The Coordination of Public Sector Organisations. Palgrave,Basingstoke, 311 p. Pollitt Christopher, Bouckaert Geert (2009) Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management. E. Elgar, Cheltenham, 223 p. Bouckaert Geert, Halligan John (2008) Managing performance, International comparisons. Routledge, London, 440p.

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