113 © The Author(s) 2019 E. Ongaro (ed.), Public Administration in Europe, Governance and Public Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92856-2_12 CHAPTER 12 Thirty Years of Performance Research at the European Group of Public Administration Permanent Study Group 2: Performance in Public Sector Wouter Van Dooren, Jostein Askim, and Steven Van de Walle The performance group (‘PSG2’) is one of the longest standing Study Groups of EGPA. Delving in the archive called Google, we identifed Christopher Pollitt from Leuven University as one of its frst chairs (1988 to 1994) of the then still called Study Group on Productivity and W. Van Dooren (*) University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium e-mail: wouter.vandooren@uantwerpen.be J. Askim University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway e-mail: jostein.askim@stv.uio.no S. Van de Walle Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium e-mail: steven.vandewalle@kuleuven.be