Sub-theme 50: Organizing Risk in the Public Sector

Convenors:
Julia Fleischer, German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer, Germany
Per Lægreid, University of Bergen, Norway
Thurid Hustedt, University of Potsdam, Germany
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:45, S-D239
Law and Risk
Chair: Per Lægreid
Alfred G. Debus
Alert mechanisms of the European Union: Does the 'Facebook' for the internal market allay risks?
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Laurent Taskin
Kateryna Grabovets and Klaus Heine
Organizational insights for improving the public organization of tort law
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Kristina Tamm Hallström
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, S-D239
Improving Quality by Risk Management
Chair: Thurid Hustedt
Henry Rothstein and John Downer
Renewing Defra: Exploring the emergence of risk-based policymaking in UK central government
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Luc Julliet
Frank Schiller
Organisational risk management in government
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Julia Fleischer
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, S-D239
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Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 11:00, S-D239
Organising for Prevention
Chair: Thurid Hustedt
Rebecca-Lea Korinek
Managing Food Safety Risk by Re-organization. Comparing Norway and Germany
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Per Lægreid
Julia Fleischer
The 'pork cycle' in organising risk: On patterns of structural choices in German Federal Government
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Henry Rothstein
Laurent Taskin, Nathalie Schiffino and Julien Raone
Understanding the organizational regulation of societal risk through the combination of new institutionalism and social regulation theory. A proposal
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sarah Sue Slaghuis
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 16:00, S-D239
Desasters and Risk
Chair: Julia Fleischer
Per Lægreid, Tom Christensen and Mathias Johannessen
A system under stress – The Icelandic volcano ash crisis
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Michael Huber
Inga Drossart, Cornelia Seidel and Thurid Hustedt
Managing climate risks in the Baltic Sea region – Patterns of interaction between the European Commission and the Council of the Baltic Sea States
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Frank Schiller
Luc Juillet
Framing the multilevel governance of emergency management: The reform of State organization for the management of catastrophic risk in Canada
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Thurid Hustedt
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, S-D239
Industrial Sectors and Risk
Chair: Julia Fleischer
Ruth Skotnes and Ole Andreas Engen
Internal control as risk management
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rebecca-Lea Korinek
Kristina Tamm Hallström, Ingrid Gustafsson Nordin and Susanna Alexius
Risk organizers in quest of authority – Organizing risks and risk prevention in the markets of inspection and certification
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Alfred Debus
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, S-D239
Risk Management: British Perspectives
Chair: Per Lægreid
Michael Huber
The risk university
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Klaus Heine
Sarah Slaghuis, Mathilde Strating, Roland Bal and Anna Nieboer
Conceptualizing sustainability of changed work practices to analyze quality improvement in health care
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ruth Østgaard Skotnes