The Award of the  Best Comparative Paper  at the 19th NISPAcee Conference,  May 2011, was presented to the winners Veronica Junjan, University of Twente, The Netherlands, and Diana-Camelia Iancu, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania for their paper "Post EU accession reforms in Central and Eastern European countries: Who will (continue to) bother?”.

The WG is planning to produce an edited book with the best papers on PA reform in a large variety of countries. The plan is to collaborate with the coordinators of some of the other working groups to produce an edited volume on Public Administration Reform in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Papers addressing this topic were, for instance, also delivered for the working groups on Local Government, the group on Policy Analysis and within the General Session.