Public Sector Reform: Rationale, Trends and Problems

Abstract

Introduction - Jan-Erik Lane New Public Sector Models - John Halligan Reform in Australia and New Zealand The Bewildering Pace of Public Sector Reform in Canada - Evert A Lindquist The Privatization of Infrastructures in Germany - Ira Denkhaus and Volker Scheider Re-Building the State - Joachim Jens Hesse Public Sector Reform in Central and Eastern Europe Farewell to the British State? - Michael J Goldsmith and Edward C Page Anglo-Saxon Public Management and European Governance - Walter J M Kickert The Case of Dutch Administrative Reforms Public Sector Reform in the Nordic Countries - Jan-Erik Lane Public Sector Reform in France - Thierry Postif Local Government in Britain after Thatcher - Gerry Stoker Fiscal and Financial Decentralization - Bernard Steunenberg and Nico Mol A Comparative Analysis of Six West European Countries Searching for Competitiveness - Carles Boix The Role of the Spanish Public Sector in the 1980s and 1990s Incorporation as Public Sector Reform - Jan-Erik Lane