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Reforming local public services

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  • Sabine Kuhlmann

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The following article is aimed at analysing reforms in public service delivery and management at the local level of government in Germany and France from a cross-countries comparative perspective. Particular attention is paid to the results and effects these reform initiatives have caused with regard to the administrative organization, steering capacities, and output performance. Two major approaches of reform will be addressed: privatization, contracting-out, and ‘corporatization’ of local services on the one hand and public management reforms on the other. Proceeding from the distinct ‘starting conditions’ of reforms in the two local government systems, the question will be pursued, as to whether there has been an increasingly convergent or divergent development in French and German local service provision, and how these evolutions can be explained.

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  • Sabine Kuhlmann, 2008. "Reforming local public services," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(5), pages 573-596, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:10:y:2008:i:5:p:573-596
    DOI: 10.1080/14719030802264234
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