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2016
This chapter contains an analysis of Swedish administrative reform from the mid-1970s until today. It shows that Sweden has embraced most New Public Management ideas. Regarding management ideas Sweden was an early mover, whereas the neoliberal part of the NPM package took root quite late, from around 1990. In recent years Sweden has also embraced some “
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This chapter contains an analysis of Swedish administrative reform from the mid-1970s until today. It shows that Sweden has embraced most New Public Management ideas. Regarding management ideas Sweden was an early mover, whereas the neoliberal part of the NPM package took root quite late, from around 1990. In recent years Sweden has also embraced some “
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2002
AbstractThe fiscal crisis experienced in Japan from the mid-1970s gave rise to a broadly based campaign of administrative reform associated with the work of the Second Provisional Commission for Administrative Reform, launched in 1981. This chapter assesses the extent to which the administrative reform movement in the 1980s changed the administrative ...
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AbstractThe fiscal crisis experienced in Japan from the mid-1970s gave rise to a broadly based campaign of administrative reform associated with the work of the Second Provisional Commission for Administrative Reform, launched in 1981. This chapter assesses the extent to which the administrative reform movement in the 1980s changed the administrative ...
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Administrative Science as Reform: German Public Administration
Public Administration Review, 1996What characterizes German public administration since the 18th century is its early modernization relative to the political regime. Germany is not a classic constitutional state. The identity as well as the stability of German statehood are based on administration and its organizing principle of public law.
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Administrative Reform and Political Development
Development and Change, 1971The phrase ‘administrative reform’ has been widely used with at least two broad meanings. In one regard it has been synonymous with administrative change, describing the variety of important revisions of administrative practice and organisation that all administrative entities engage in from time to time.
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Bureaucratic models and administrative reform
Development and Change, 1971Administrative reform must attempt to improve what government administration intends to achieve, for unless the goal of government is sound there cannot be any real administrative reform. In this basic sense, administrative reform is normative. Goal-relevance is particularly essential in the case of developing countries for whom a choice of goals is ...
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Comparative Public Administration and Reform
International Journal of Public Administration, 1999This paper addresses administrative reform in the context of the comparative public administration research, theory, and practice. It reviews the current literature and outlines a number of research areas in which both administrative reform and comparative public administration should have a focus on in the near future. It also proposes several methods
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Conclusion: a kaleidoscope of administrative reforms in Europe
2016This chapter discusses the lessons that can be drawn from the findings presented in the book and outlines a future research agenda for European comparative public administration. The evidence on the salience of different reform paradigms in European central governments is summarised, along with the broad patterns of convergence and divergence in reform
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Administrative Reform and Administrative Self-Reference
1995The concept of ‘reform’ is extremely attractive for the social analysts. Tts definition, however, is not equally easy to derive, as it is the case for the concept of the other extreme, the concept of ‘revolution’ (von Krockow, 1976; Greiffenhagen, 1978; Bohret, 1983).
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