This book focuses on regulatory reforms and the autonomization and agencification of public
sector organizations across Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. The central …

Administrative policies and practices may evolve and change slowly and incrementally or
they may be transformed intentionally. Intentional efforts to change administrative policy by …

Compared to the American separation of powers system, the parliamentary democracies of
Western Europe regulate the interaction between the representative and executive branches …

This book investigates what happens to an organized political unit when it becomes part of a
larger entity and, in particular, how increased European integration and the tentative moves …

The use of politically appointed ministerial advisors has increased noticeably in many
Western countries, but we know little about how this development has affected the civil …

This chapter outline three generations of reforms and examines to what extent the reforms
have increased the performance of public administration in the Nordic countries. The overall …

This chapter presents the understanding of administrative tradition as both ideas and beliefs
concerning the nature of government in a specific national context together with institutions …

This chapter describes institutional features of the Nordic state authorities and discusses
important organizational characteristics in the five countries. The aim is to investigate …

The division of labor between political executives and the bureaucracy is a central issue in
the study of government. In recent years the interest in this aspect of administrative …

The current study raises two main questions:(i) How well integrated are the national central
administrations of European nation-states and the administrative apparatus of the European …