Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : public sector reform : only deregulation, privatization and marketization? / Jan-Erik Lane -- New public sector models : reform in Australia and New Zealand / John Halligan -- The bewildering pace of public sector reform in Canada / Evert A. Lindquist -- The privatization of infrastructures in Germany / Ira Denkhaus and Volker Schneider -- Rebuilding the state : public sector reform in Central and Eastern Europe / Joachim Jens Hesse -- Farewell to the British state? / Michael J. Goldsmith and Edward C. Page -- Anglo-Saxon public management and European governance : the case of Dutch administrative reforms / Walter J.M. Kickert -- 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 : a comparative analysis of six West European countries / Bernard Steunenberg and Nico Mol -- Searching for competitiveness : the role of the Spanish public sector in the 1980s and 1990s / Carles Boix -- Incorporation as public sector reform / Jan-Erik Lane -- Conclusion / Jan-Erik Lane.

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