Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction - Theoretical Approach and Research Questions -- 2 Still Fragmented Government or Reassertion of the Centre? -- 3 Reform Design and Performance in Australia and New Zealand -- 4 Types of State Organizations: Arguments, Doctrines and Changes Beyond New Public Management -- 5 Convergence and Standardization in Telecommunications Regulation: Trajectories of Change and Reform in the Asian Pacific Regulatory State -- 6 Organizing Immigration - a Comparison of New Zealand and Norway -- 7 Central Banking Reform Across the World: Only By Night Are All Cats Grey -- 8 Quests for Transparency: Signs of a New Institutional Era in the Health Care Field -- 9 Public-Private Partnerships: A Comparative Perspective on Victoria and Denmark -- 10 (The Difficult Art of) Outsourcing Welfare Services: Experiences from Sweden and New Zealand -- 11 New Public Management and the Ghost of Max Weber: Exorcized or Still Haunting? -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.