Studying Administrative Reform in Britain and France: Academic Questions, Traditions and Debates

This text goes ‘upstream’ of administrative reform itself in order to track the development of research questions in this subject area by social scientists since the end of the 1970s. Given the importance of such questions for research design and interpretation of its results, it is necessary to gra...

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Published inPublic policy and administration Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 9 - 19
Main Author Smith, Andy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publications 01.10.2001
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Summary:This text goes ‘upstream’ of administrative reform itself in order to track the development of research questions in this subject area by social scientists since the end of the 1970s. Given the importance of such questions for research design and interpretation of its results, it is necessary to grasp the intellectual contexts within which administrative reform has been studied in Britain and France. The differences observed are explained essentially by tracing the institutionalisation of ideas which has taken place within academia itself over the past three decades
ISSN:0952-0767
1749-4192
DOI:10.1177/095207670101600402