New COCOPS Working Paper has been published: Can shared performance targets help co-ordinate public organisations? Rational control and organisational politics in UK Government cross-cutting Public Service Agreements. Within this WP, Oliver James and Ayako Nakamura test the role of shared performance targets for the coordination of public organisations. It can be accessed here.

New COCOPS Policy Brief has been published: The responses of European governments to the fiscal crisis. It summarises the findings of a large-scale comparative study on the responses of governments to the recent fiscal crisis in 14 European countries by focusing on the contents of consolidation measures, cutback decision-making patterns and the effects of the […]