Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance

Abstract

1. Introduction: Assessing Administrative Reforms Jon Pierre and Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans Part 1: Administrative Reforms in Practice: Trajectories, Strategies, Acclimatizations 2. NPM Reforms Legacy: A Common Praxeologic, a Variety of Acclimatizations, a Renewed Bureaucratization Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans 3. Has NPM a Trust Problem? Public Sector Incentive Systems in Japan, Korea, Spain, and Sweden Carl Dahlstrom and Victor Lapuente 4. Administrative Reforms and the Complexification of Competencies Requested from Civil Servants: The Case of Norway Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid 5. The Un-Politics of New Public Management in Ireland Niamh Hardiman and Muiris MacCarthaigh 6. Shifting Discourses, Steady Learning and Sedimentation: The German Reform Trajectory in the Long Run Julia Fleischer and Werner Jann 7. The Rise of Managerialism as a Result of Bureaucratic Strategies and Power Games: The case of France Julie Gervais 8. Beyond the Reforms: Changing Civil Service Leadership in the European Commission Anchrit Wille Part 2: The Unanticipated Impact of Administrative Reforms: A Challenge to Democracy? 9. Bureaucracy and Democracy: Towards Result-Based Legitimacy? B. Guy Peters 10. Contending Models of Administrative Reform: The New Public Management Versus the New Weberianism Jon Pierre and Bo Rothstein 11. Markets, Morality and Democratic Governance: Insights from the UK Matthew Flinders 12. Reforming the State in France: From Public Service to Public Management? Alistair Cole 13. Assessing the Impact of Administrative Reforms on Democratic Governance: The Case of Accountability in Switzerland Aurelien Buffat and Basile Larpin 14. Administrative Reform and the Quality of Governance in Post-Socialist States: The Case of Slovenia Simona Kustec-Lipicer and Polona Kovac 15. Transforming Governance through Administrative Reforms in Emerging Countries: Mexico, South Korea and Turkey Gul Sosay 16. Conclusion Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans and Jon Pierre