A new study in the Canadian Public Administration, the journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, reports that the commercialization of air traffic control organizations has greatly improved performance with respect to cost, safety, and technical modernization. Led by Glen McDougall, president of MBS Ottawa Inc. and senior fellow at George Mason University, the study examined the performance of ten international commercial ANSPs from 1997 to 2004 and compared them to the benchmark of a government department, the Federal Aviation Administration. The study shows that the reforms have been effective in various ways and provides an understanding of the features of governance structures that lead to greater performance. “This research will have significance on the long term governance arrangements of the FAA, which remains a government department,” the authors conclude. “The FAA exhibits many of the restraints on performance that affected air traffic control provision in other countries before commercialization.” The study is published in the March 2008 issue of Canadian Public Administration.