Contextualizing the meaning of public management reforms: a comparison of the Netherlands and South Korea
- Authors
- Brandsen, Taco; Kim, Sunhyuk
- Issue Date
- 6월-2010
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
- Keywords
- administration and democracy; comparative analysis; financial management; personnel policies; policy-making; policy transfer; public administration; public enterprise; public management; public sector reform
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, v.76, no.2, pp.367 - 386
- Indexed
- SSCI
AHCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
- Volume
- 76
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 367
- End Page
- 386
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/116350
- DOI
- 10.1177/0020852309365671
- ISSN
- 0020-8523
- Abstract
- Previous literature has demonstrated that the apparent global convergence between public management reforms is misleading because there are major differences in how a global paradigm of reform is implemented. This is not only a question of implementation, but also of interpretation. Even when reforms are similar with respect to the administrative measures that are implemented, they can have significantly different political and cultural meanings, depending on the broader state-society relations within which they are embedded. A cross-national analysis of reforms must therefore take sufficient account of the historical development of the position of the state and of state-civil society relations. To demonstrate the point, the article compares public management reforms in the Netherlands and South Korea.
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