Public Issues, Public Values

The Utrecht University School of Governance (USG) studies public issues and public organisations in their interaction with the developments in politics and society. The key question in this is how public organisations and private organisations with a public task deal with current social issues, how they shape their public responsibilities and deliver public value.

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  • USG building closed for four weeks

    The USG building will be closed during the summer from Monday 20 July until Friday 17 August.

  • Website with the leading work of Mark Bovens

    The publications from the work of Mark Bovens that are still relevant and topical are now collected on a website and therefore accessible to a wide audience.

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  • Multidisciplinary team to investigate adaptability of societies in crises

    Under the name Adapt!, a team of researchers from five universities will spend the next few years investigating the cultural, social and policy capacities needed to deal with big crises.

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