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Public Sector Reforms

The International Diffusion of Models of Public Management

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When the government in a country embarks upon public sector reform, then it may have an image of what it wants to accomplish. This image consists of governance forms that may be analysed as a set of ideal-types for the organisation of public sector activities. Modernising or reforming the structure of the public sector in one country is often guided by the diffusion or export of such ideal-types of organisation.

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  1. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Deutschland

    Jan-Erik Lane

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  1. Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg, Deutschland

    Rainer Koch  & Peter Conrad  & 

  2. Universität Trier, Trier, Deutschland

    Wolfgang H. Lorig

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Lane, JE. (2011). Public Sector Reforms. In: Koch, R., Conrad, P., Lorig, W.H. (eds) New Public Service. Gabler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-6371-0_3

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