Workshop Guide

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Workshop Guide

1~3 March 2017

Utrecht, Netherlands

Contents

Welcome……….….1

Workshop Venue, Contacts & Logistics ..………..……….3

Workshop Agenda ……….4

Workshop Lunch & Dinner………6

Hotel Information ………..6

Local Information……….7

City Map ……….8

Appendix: Participants ………9

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to Utrecht. Thanks very much for agreeing to spend a couple of days in your busy lives on our effort to build a community of thought, research and engagement on the topic of successful public governance. The topic and approach of our joint endeavour feel a bit like rowing upstream: the mainstream momentum goes the other way – towards identifying and dissecting the limitations, shortcomings failures and crises of public policies, agencies and government systems. Akin to the positive psychology movement, we believe there is merit in developing a ‘positive public administration’ - one that studies the conditions for governments, their agencies and other public actors actually achieving their aims, that create public value, and that are robust, resilient and yet adaptive.

We are as yet at the very early stages of what that would look like. We see a lot of potential, and wherever we engage with public servants and political office- holders about this, we are met with enthusiasm. Not surprisingly. Like Colonel Hannibal Smith in the A Team tv series, they ‘love it when plan comes together’, and they display missionary zeal in wanting to share with us the instances in which this has happened in their own areas of responsibility. They are also much more keen to learn from research accounts of salient others’ successes than to have to plough through and cope with yet another post-mortem investigation (and blame game) triggered by negative incidents, complaints and allegations. This is an obvious, and yet real and – up to a point – legitimate and productive propensity. It opens the door for forms of engagement between research and practice that we have to few of. At the same time, we are conscious of its equally obvious pitfalls (naiveté, co-optation etc.).as well as the many conceptual and methodological challenges (e.g. selection bias, attribution errors) of ‘success research’ in public sector contexts.

There is no easy road to researching and writing public sector equivalents of Jim Collins’ corporate bestsellers Built to Last and Good to Great. But it does not hurt to try. It is in this spirit we have convened this workshop. There will be about 40 of us, coming not only from many different countries but also from very different corners of the field. Some of you live and breathe public policy, some executive government, others agencies, yet others regulation. Some ‘do’ crises, others ‘do’

collaboration. Some of you are positivists who like to ‘measure’, others are social

constructivists who like to ‘catch meaning’. Some of you are ‘big names’, others are

just starting out on their academic paths. In short, there will be bridges to cross,

and much listening and translation work to be done. But we trust you all knew that

already when you signed up for this mad endeavour.

We look forward to three inspiring days, that will hopefully cast a shadow of ongoing collaborative engagements that in some small way help to change the way people think, talk about, and appreciate the art of governing.

The SFG Team:

Paul ‘t Hart Judith van Erp Stefanie Beyens, Mallory Compton Scott Douglas, Lieske van der Torre Willem van Toor Jieqiong Wu

(And soon to join from Australia: Lauren Fahy and Jo Luetjens)

Workshop Venue, Contacts & Logistics

The workshop will be held at the Oudaen City Castle.

Address:

Stadskasteel Oudaen Oudegracht 99 3511 AE Utrecht

Telephone: +31 30 231 1864 Web: www.oudaen.nl

All organizational and logistical matters concerning the workshop are handled by Willem van Toor and Jieiqiong Wu (‘Arrow’). Please contact them whenever you need to:

Willem’s phone and email: +31 0637238467 C.W.vantoor@uu.nl Arrow’s phone and email: +31 0625297581 J.Wu5@uu.nl Transfer to venue from Schiphol Airport

Utrecht is 25 minutes by train or a 60 euro taxi ride from Schiphol Airport. All

workshop locations are within easy walking distance from each other. For information on how to travel by train to Utrecht visit www.schiphol.nl/en/page/by-train-from- schiphol/ or contact Willem or Arrow.

Reimbursement

Please send a digital receipts of your travel, airline ticket and train ticket, and your

bank account details to Willem, if you have not done so already. He will arrange

reimbursement.

Workshop Agenda

1 March Oudaen City Castle.

13.00 Sandwich lunch

14.15 Plenary: Welcome and Introductory stage-setting:

-Workshop Objectives

-Designing principles and ‘rules of the game’ of the workshop -Personal Introductions

15.00 Short introductory 'pitches' by three young researchers 16.00 Tea Break

16.20 Subgroups ‘at-work’

17.20 Plenary reporting back and inference-drawing 18.00 Break

19.30 Dinner (Venue: Restaurant ‘ Het Zuiden’ ) 2 March Oudaen City Castle.

9.00 Plenary opening

9.30 Case-scenarios driven subgroup discussions: ‘How would you approach studying case X’: question-framing, analytical perspectives, research design principles?

-Local public value creation case

-Regulatory agency strategy/reputation case 10.45 Coffee Break

11.00 Thematic subgroups

-Understanding policy success (Mallory Compton, chair) -Understanding agency success (Stefanie Beyens, chair -Understanding collaborative success (Scott Douglas, chair) 12.30 Lunch

13.15 ‘Polishing nuggets’ sessions:

-Forming 6-10 thematically driven coalitions of the interested around emerging themes from memos and workshop discussions so far

14.45 Tea Break

15.00 Plenary harvesting:

-What have we learned from these explorations?

16.10 Break

19.00 Dinner (Venue: Restaurant Saigon)

3 March Oudaen City Castle

9.00 Plenary: Looking ahead: identifying collaborative opportunities, building an agenda

10.45 Getting down to business: crafting collaborative pieces & projects (morning tea will be served)

12.00 Plenary: Subgroups report; planning of future meetings

12.30 Farewell lunch

Workshop Lunch

The Workshop lunch on Wednesday 1st March will take place from 13:00h at the Oudaen City Castle. Workshop lunches on 2

and 3

March will take place at the same venue. Please see map on page 7 for location details.

Workshop Dinners Venues

1 March

Restaurant Het Zuiden Mariastraat 4-6

3511 LP Utrecht 2 March

Restaurant Saigon Voorstraat 68 3512 AS Utrecht

Hotel Information

Eye hotel

Address:

Wijde Begijnestraat 1-3 3512 AW

Utrecht

Telephone: + 31 30 303 6 303 Email: welcome@eyehotel.nl Web: http://www.eyehotel.nl/en/

Mother Goose

Address:

Ganzenmarkt 26 3512 GE

Utrecht

Telephone: +31 30 303 6300 Email:

Welcome@MotherGooseHotel.com Web:

http://www.mothergoosehotel.com/

Please see map on page 7 for location details.

Local Information

Taxi

In Utrecht, if you need to order a Taxi, please call:

Utrecht Taxi Centrale: 030 320 0600 Taxicentrale City Utrecht: 030 700 1290 Taxi Utrecht: 0303690547

Emergency number

The emergency number for police assistance, fire brigade and ambulance is 112.

This is only if you are in urgent need of the emergency services. If you need the police, but it is not urgent, then please call 0900-8844 or contact Willem/Arrow.

If you need first aid medical help, please contact (Diakonessenhuis): 0900 450 1 450

About Utrecht

With nearly 312,000 inhabitants, Utrecht is the Netherlands' fourth city. Utrecht is the capital of the province of the same name which has 1.2 million inhabitants. The city stands at the very heart of the Netherlands, where the country's road and rail networks intersect. The city's central location mean it is at the heart of the Netherlands' business and leisure communities. Utrecht has the highest church tower of The Netherlands, the Dom.

The city was founded by the Romans around 50 AD and was named Traiectum Romanum. In the Middle Ages it was the most important city in the nothern and eastern part of the country. In 1579 the 7 nothern provinces in The Netherlands signed the "Unie van Utrecht" (Union of Utrecht), where the provinces declared to fight against the Spanish rule. This was the beginning of the Republic of The Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden).

Utrecht Tourist Information Centre: http://www.visit-utrecht.com/

Utrecht City Center Map

Appendix: Participants

Arjen Boin Professor of Public Institutions and Governance

NL Leiden University boin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Veerle De Bosscher Professor the department of Sports Policy and Management

Belgie Vrije Universiteit Brussel Veerle.De.Bosscher@vub.ac.be Alessandro Sancino Lecturer in Management EU The Open University alessandro.sancino@open.ac.uk Allan McConnell Professor Political Science AUSTRALIA The University of Sydney allan.mcconnell@sydney.edu.au

Bert George Assistant Professor of Public Management

EU Erasmus University george@fsw.eur.nl

Charles Parker senior lecturer at Department of Government

Sweden Uppsala University Charles.Parker@statsvet.uu.se Christel Koop Lecturer in Political Economy EU King’s College London christel.koop@kcl.ac.uk Christopher Ansell Professor of Political Science USA University of California Berkeley cansell@berkeley.edu

Colin Talbot Professor of Government EU University of Manchester colin.talbot@manchester.ac.uk

Danny Buerkli Programme Director UK Centre for Public Impact danny@centreforpublicimpact.org

Donald Blondin PhD EU Leiden University 'D.b.blondin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl'

Eva Sorensen Professor of Public Administration and Democracy

EU Roskilde University eva@ruc.dk

Falk Ebinger Assistant Professor of Public Management and Governance

EU Vienna University falk.ebinger@wu.ca.at

Hans Bil PhD NL EUR J.A. Bil [bil@fsw.eur.nl];

Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen

Associate Professor of Political Science EU Aalborg University hhs@mgmt.au.dk (use this one) Jacob Torfing Professor of Politics and Institutions EU Roskilde University jtor@ruc.dk

Jan Boon Postdoc Belgie Department of Political Science

University of Antwerp

jan.boon@uantwerpen.be

Jan Wynen Postdoc Belgie Public Governance Institute jan.wynen@kuleuven.be

Katrien Termeer Professor of Public Administration and Policy

NL Wageningen University katrien.termeer@wur.nl

Koen Verhoest Professor in Comparative Public Administration and Globalization

Belgie Universiteit Antwerpen koen.verhoest@uantwerpen.be Madalina Busuioc Senior Lecturer in Politics EU University of Exeter e.m.busuioc@exeter.ac.uk

Martijn Groenleer Professor of Regional Law and Governance

NL Tilburg University m.l.p.groenleer@tilburguniversity.edu

Paul Light Professor of Public Service USA New York University pcl226@nyu.edu

Richard Walker Professor Public Managment EU City University of Hong Kong rmwalker@cityu.edu.hk

Robert van Putten PhD EU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam r.j.van.putten@vu.nl

Saar Alon-Barkat PhD EU Hebrew University mr.saar@gmail.com Sharon Gilad Associate Professor of Political Science EU Hebrew University sharon.gilad@mail.huji.ac.il

Sjors Overman Assistant Professor Public Governance and Management

NL Utrecht University s.p.overman@uu.nl

Steffen Zabler PhD DE University for Administrative

Science Speyer

zabler@uni-speyer.de

Willem Trommel Professor of Public Policy and Governance

NL Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam w.a.trommel@vu.nl

Paul 't Hart SPG Program leader NL Utrecht University P.tHart@uu.nl

Judith van Erp SPG Team members NL Utrecht University J.G.vanErp@uu.nl

Scott Douglas SPG Team members NL Utrecht University S.C.Douglas@uu.nl

Stefanie Beyens SPG Team members NL Utrecht University s.beyens1@uu.nl

Lieske van der Torre SPG Team members NL Utrecht University e.j.vandertorre@uu.nl

Mallory Compton SPG Team members NL Utrecht University compton@tamu.edu

Jieqiong Wu (Arrow) Research assistent NL Utrecht University j.wu5@uu.nl

Willem van Toor Research assistent NL Utrecht University C.W.vanToor@uu.nl