Reshaping the state
The implications for public administration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6407833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent Wright (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 102-137 |
| Publication date | 1994-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402389408425032 |
| OpenAlex | W2087899043 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 71 |
| References cited | 47 |
Reshaping the states of Western Europe has direct implications for their respective public sectors. Broad convergent pressures have led to largely similar reform programmes. However, differences remain across Western Europe in the nature, style, timing and pace of the reforms. These differences may be explained by analysing the nature of the pressures, the size and scope of the traditional public sector, the ambitions of governments, as well as their ideological commitment and political durability, and the domestic political opportunity structure. The reform programmes being pursued in several countries are characterised by contradictions, paradoxes and problems
Administration (probate law · Development economics · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Ideology · Pace · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public sector · Scope (computer science · State (computer science · Western europe · European Union Policy and Governance · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Policy and Reform Studies
European States and the Euro
Governing Europe
Exploring the Legacies of New Public Management in Europe
Public Management
Democracy transformed?
Democracy in Europe
University governance reforms
The Changing European State
Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States
The Changing Role of the Senior Civil Service in Dutch National Government
Devolution and Decentralization
On Studying Governments
The Social-Democratic State
Recasting European Welfare States
What Is New About Governance and Why Does It Matter?
State reform in Greece
Comparing Economic Interest Organizations
Democracy and Public Management Reform
The Euro and Labour Market and Wage Policies
Democratic Publics and Democratic Institutions
Why EMU Is—or May Be—Good for European Welfare States
Security Governance in East Asia and China’s Response to Covid-19
Political Ideology, Globalisation and Welfare Futures in Europe
L'Europe comme dépassement de l'Etat
Professional Autonomy versus Political Control
The Market Provision of Mandatory Social Security
Introduction to the symposium
The Challenges of Implementing Merit-Based Personnel Policies in Latin America
Studying British Government
An actor‐centred approach to multi‐level governance
Nuevas métricas para nuevos valores de gestión policial. Criterios de valor y medición de la acción de las policías locales españolas en escenarios de gobernanza relacional
The Unsustainable Demise of Public Administration
Nation-states and common markets
Japanese University Reform — Hybridity in Governance and Management
Different Roads to Unfamiliar Places
A Case Study of China’s Administrative Reform
Do Computers Cut Red Tape
Why Reforms So Often Disappoint
Bureau Shuffling? The Review of Public Administration in Northern Ireland
Comparative governance
Traditions of governance
Comparative Public Administration in Britain
Introduction
Administrative reform policy
The Legacy of the New Public Management in Developing Countries
Transitions in Israel's Policymaking Network
Mission impossible’, but mission accomplished
Public service reform
Explaining Cross-National Variance in Administrative Reform
Differential Legacy Effects
European integration and national executives
New Organisational Solutions in Norwegian Local Councils
Why Style Matters
Quangos—What's in a Name? Defining Quangos from a Comparative Perspective
Private Actors and the State
New Public Management Reforms of the Danish and Swedish Welfare States
Comitology
Reforming the state
European Government(s)
Governance as a Path to Government
Penelope's suitors
Governing the academies
The end of the Whitehall model
Imitating the West? Evidence on Administrative Reform from the Upper Echelons of Chinese Provincial Government
Multi-level Governance and EU Structural Funds
Partisan Politics, Globalization, and the Determinants of Privatization Proceeds in Advanced Democracies (1990–2000)
Testing Structuralist and Interpretative Explanations of Policy Change
Reshaping the State
Cross‐National Transfer of Policy Ideas
When Do Institutions, Policy Sectors, and Cities Matter
La nouvelle gouvernance
Breaking through bureaucracy
Government by the Market?
The Public-Private Distinction in Organization Theory
Privatization and the Welfare State
Social Change as a Source of Competing Values in Public Administration
The Remaking of British Administrative Culture
Le Conseil économique et social
Improving Public Management
Public Administration and the Information Polity
The New ‘Evaluati State’
Renewal of the Public Sector in Sweden
The Thatcher Government, the Financial Management Initiative, and the ‘New CML Service’
The Management Role and Productivity Increases in the Italian Public Administration
The Career Public Service in France
The Higher Civil Service in Greece
The Modernization of Budgetary Techniques and Financial Control
Civil Service Policies Since 1981
The Modernization of Administration in Belgium
Contract Management in the Netherlands
Withdrawal of Government
Morale in the Public Service
The Civil Service and the Policy of Administrative Modernization in France
Adapting the Administration- In Its Tasks, Its Structures and Its Personnel- To the New Economic Situation
Historical Legacy and Recent Developments in the German Higher Civil Service
Administrative Modernization and New Technologies in France
Observations on the State of Comparative Administration Research in Europe — Rather Comparable than Comparative
The ‘Swedish model’ and public sector reform
Rebuilding public administration in the New German Länder
Implementation of Modernization
Privatization of Public Services
Government Reorganization
Next Steps for the British Civil Service
Trends in the Higher Civil Services of Anglo‐American Systems
Administrative Reform in Public Management
Deregulation in Austria
La dysfonction publique ou la crise du corporatisme
Le développement de l'évaluation en France. Nécessités techniques et exigences politiques
La modernisation de l'État et la fin de la spécificité française
Service Public et Néolibéralisme
| Unique citing works | 71 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,29 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2024 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 69 |