Abstract
Editor's Note: The Summer 1997 issue of ROPPA was devoted to a comparative analysis of personnel reforms in several European countries The symposium editor, David Farnham of the University of Portsmouth (UK), included selections dealing with "employment flexibilities" in the UK, Germany, Norway, and Spain For the most part, the authors of the various articles presented a relatively upbeat and positive outlook on personnel system reforms in their respective countries The following Professional Note, in contrast, provides a gloomier view of how reinvention-like reforms are altering public management practices in at least one European nation Jose Rocha, professor of public administration at the University of Minho, describes how moves to debureaucratize and decentralize Portuguese public administration have led to some unanticipated consequences. Increased levels of corruption, inefficiency, and politicization of the civil service are attributed to the "reforms" that emerged from the New Public Management movement sweeping Europe As such, Rocha's Professional Note is essentially intended as an indirect rebuttal to the earlier symposium. By pointing out some of the inconsistencies in the reform agenda, he identifies dilemmas that have also become apparent in the American experience with personnel system transformations.
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