Pasterniak, Angelika; Pitlik, Hans - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 81 (2008) 12, pp. 923-940
The standard exercise of conjecturing the savings potentials in public administration draws on a general notion that Austria's bureaucracy is "too big" and/or "too expensive". Against the background of a perennial discussion of administrative reform we compare the cost of public administration...