Compte rendu

Philippe Bezes (1)

1 CERSA - Centre d'études et de recherches de science administrative

This book is a significant contribution to the understanding of the effects of new public management (NPM)-related reforms on the central civil service systems. It brings together 12 substantial contributions united by a coherent approach. The volume offers theoretical and empirical chapters on the transformative effects of NPM-based reforms, based on a comparison between Antipodean (New Zealand and Australia) and Scandinavian (Norway and Sweden) countries over the past two decades. As editors, in the two introductory and concluding chapters, Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid collaborate to take seriously a threefold dimension of NPM reforms: understanding the processes; analysing the real effects of reforms beyond the managerial talks; and considering the theoretical influences of NPM on democratic theory. [First paragraph]

Domains: Political science; Sociology

Philippe Bezes. Compte rendu. West European Politics, 2005, 28 (01), pp.218 - 220. ⟨hal-03458891⟩