State administration in modern industrialized countries is facing major challenges to its basic institutional premises. The changing conditions of the global economy mean that the public sector needs to develop far-reaching strategies for innovation. A fundamental reform of the public sector is thus one of the most urgent issues on the international agenda. The volume examines and compares trends, issues and experiences of this reform process in Sweden and Germany.
Modernization of the State: Structural reforms and innovation strategies of the public sector
Frieder Naschold | p. 3
Preface
Part I: Structural reforms and innovation strategies in the public sector
Part II: the modernization of internal government structures
‘Creative destruction’ of the public sector? Approching welfare markets in Sweden
Casten von Otter | p. 93
Introduction
1.Public administration reconstructed
2.The local sector and community services
3.Structural re-organization of social programs
4.Private and commercial arrangements
5.The welfare state — creatively destructed?
About the authors
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