Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is unique in its comparative analysis of the reform experience in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Leading experts identify a number of key factors to systematically explain the similarities and differences, map common problems and together reflect on the future shape of the public sector, exploring significant themes in a lively and accessible way.

• Cover 2
• Table of Contents 7
• Introduction - Private Sector Reform: Only Deregulation, Privatization and Marketization? 11
• 1 - New Public Sector Models: Reform in Australia and New Zealand 27
• 2 - The Bewildering Pace of Public Sector Reform in Canada 57
• 3 - The Privatization of Infrastructures in Germany 74
• 4 - Rebuilding the State: Public Sector Reform in Central and Eastern Europe 124
• 5 - Farewell to the British State? 157
• 6 - Anglo-Saxon Public Management and European Governance: The Case of Dutch Administrative Reforms 178
• 7 - Public Sector Reform in the Nordic Countries 198
• 8 - Public Sector Reform in France 219
• 9 - Local Government in Britain after Thatcher 235
• 10 - Fiscal and Financial Decentralization: A Comparative Analysis of Six West European Countries 245
• 11 - Searching for Competitiveness: The Role of the Spanish Public Sector in the 1980s and 1990s 267
• 12 - Incorporation as Public Sector Reform 293