Introduction : public sector reform : only deregulation, privatization and marketization? / Jan-Erik Lane
New public sector models : reform in Australia and New Zealand / John Halligan
The bewildering pace of public sector reform in Canada / Evert A. Lindquist
The privatization of infrastructures in Germany / Ira Denkhaus and Volker Schneider
Rebuilding the state : public sector reform in Central and Eastern Europe / Joachim Jens Hesse
Farewell to the British state? / Michael J. Goldsmith and Edward C. Page
Anglo-Saxon public management and European governance : the case of Dutch administrative reforms / Walter J.M. Kickert
Public sector reform in the Nordic countries / Jan-Erik Lane
Public sector reform in France / Thierry Postif
Local government in Britain after Thatcher / Gerry Stoker
Fiscal and financial decentralization : a comparative analysis of six West European countries / Bernard Steunenberg and Nico Mol
Searching for competitiveness : the role of the Spanish public sector in the 1980s and 1990s / Carles Boix
Incorporation as public sector reform / Jan-Erik Lane
Conclusion / Jan-Erik Lane.