The introduction of competitive mechanisms and of markets or market-type instruments is a common topic in recent public sector modernisation everywhere. This paper explores the role, the trends and the effects of introducing market-oriented incentives into the discourse about reforming state and...

In spite of problems since reunification Germany remains the most important economy in Western Europe, and is the lynchpin of European security. The East German states must be successfully integrated into the German economy if the country is to remain stable and play its full role within an...