Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Public Sector Reform: Only Deregulation, Privatization and Marketization? -- 1 New Public Sector Models: Reform in Australia and New Zealand John Halligan -- 2 The Bewildering Pace of Public Sector Reform in Canada Evert A. Lindquist -- 3 The Privatization of Infrastructures in Germany Ira Denkhaus and Volker Schneider -- 4 Rebuilding the State: Public Sector Reform in Central and Eastern Europe Joachim Jens Hesse -- 5 Farewell to the British State? Michael J. Goldsmith and Edward C. Page -- 6 Anglo-Saxon Public Management and European Governance: the Case of Dutch Administrative Reforms Walter J. M. Kickert -- 7 Public Sector Reform in the Nordic Countries Jan-Erik Lane -- 8 Public Sector Reform in France Thierry Postif -- 9 Local Government in Britain after Thatcher Gerry Stoker -- 10 Fiscal and Financial Decentralization: a Comparative Analysis of Six West European Countries Bernard Steunenberg and Nico Mol -- 11 Searching for Competitiveness: the Role of the Spanish Public Sector in the 1980s and 1990s Carles Boix -- 12 Incorporation as Public Sector Reform Jan-Erik Lane -- 13 Conclusion Jan-Erik Lane -- Index.