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COCOPS – Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future is a public management research consortium consisting of 11 universities in 10 countries. With a budget of nearly 2,7 million € from the European Commission’s FP7, this is to become one of the largest comparative public management research projects in Europe. The project started on 1 Jan 2011 and will run for 3,5 years. It is coordinated by Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Latest news
COCOPS Executive Survey on Public Sector Reform in Europe
The COCOPS Executive Survey on Public Sector Reform in Europe’ has been successfully completed in the first 11 countries (Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, UK). Other surveys are also starting in Denmark, Lithuania and Serbia. For more information regarding the survey and its results please see here.
New Paper: Wicked Problems and Coordination
COCOPS Working Paper Number 11 ‘Wicked Problems and the Challenge of Transboundary Coordination: The Case of Emergancy Preparadness and Crisis Management in Norway’ by Tom Christensen, PerLægreid, and Lise H. Rykkja is now available. The working paper addresses organization for internal security, which is a typical ‘wicked problem’.The focus is on the organization for emergency [...]
Policy Brief: Citizens and Public Services
New COCOPS Policy Brief has been published: Satisfaction, Voice and Choice in European Public Services. It summarises some of the key findings from research on satisfaction, voice and choice in European public services as part of a work package of the COCOPS project. It is based on ananalysis of existing research and original research undertaken [...]





