Jan-Erik Lane 
Public Sector Reform [PDF ebook] 
Rationale, Trends and Problems

Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is unique in its comparative analysis of the reform experience in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Leading experts identify a number of key factors to systematically explain the similarities and differences, map common problems and together reflect on the future shape of the public sector, exploring significant themes in a lively and accessible way.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l’auteur

Jan-Erik Lane is Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva.