Permanent Study Group on the Public Governance of Societal Sectors
EGPA Permanent Study Group on the Public Governance of Societal Sectors is the successor to The EGPA Third Sector Study Group and will have its second meeting at the 2011 EGPA conference in Bucharest.
Aim of the group
Public governance in modern welfare states is now looking for methods to reinvent (or: revitalise) ‘the social’. Ambitions include a large-scale reconstruction of local communities, civil society and citizenship, by giving public responsibilities to citizens and third sector organisations. Simultaneously, relationships with citizens, communities and third sector organisations are cast within the mould of public management. They are subjected to accountability procedures; inserted in structures of supervision; included in arenas for competition and contracting.
The study group aims to focus at the emergence of this new type of governance. This practice has two faces. Firstly, it aims at establishing active and responsible communities and citizens, based on the belief that late-modern society does not generate the required levels of social trust and capital spontaneously. Secondly, by doing so, the state shares public responsibilities with other actors like businesses, third sector organisations, and citizens. In the study group we wish to explore the dynamics, effectiveness and appropriateness of this institutional response to the liquefaction of modern social life.
Call for papers EGPA Conference 2011, 7-10 september Bucharest
For general information about the conference, please consult www.egpa2011.com
