public administration reforms for a panel of EU countries using a novel reform indicator. The findings support the political … opportunities of a crisis to promote this particular type of reform. Furthermore, there is evidence for horizontal learning from …

overview of academic evaluation and impact studies of entire NPM-style reform programmes. We distinguish between two sets of …

Research on administrative reform in Europe has demonstrated a significant variation among countries in how they choose … reform strategy. We know very little about what explains the variation with regard to the extent with which the countries … markedly features of reform trends, similarities and differences in design and implementation, taking into consideration the …

Competing values complicate debates on the reform of public services. Attention for competition and efficiency is … reform of services of general interest. Despite debates at the European and the national level, current research on services … clusters of citizens' public service delivery value orientations, and show that one-sided or ideology-based reform strategies …

economics perspective and argue that most of the reform’s elements point into the right direction. However, some upcoming … paragon of the German reform and amend its institutional framework accordingly. We find scope for reform particularly …