Das Buch liefert einen allgemeinen Überblick über neuere Diskussionsansätze zur Modernisierung der Staatsorganisation und der Kommunalverwaltung im internationalen Vergleich und vertiefend in Deutschland. Dabei werden zum einen die konzeptionellen Vorstellungen des New Public Managements als...

The Romanian public administration reform is on the working agenda of the governments since more than a decade and a half. Its objectives require a corps of professional civil servants, career civil servants, with adequate training, able to achieve a new interface within the relations with the...

In 1991, Christopher Hood made a substantial contribution to public administration research when he formulated the concept of New Public Management (NPM). His article can in many ways be understood as an enabler of research focused on public sector reforms. To this day, numerous articles and...