Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index.
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The rise of the modern state -- Historical forms of state -- Absolute state and patrimonial administration -- The liberal state and civil service reform -- The transition to liberal democracy -- The social-democratic state -- The crisis of the social-democratic state -- The global system and the state -- The emergency of republican rights -- The social-liberal state -- The republican state -- Republican democracy -- Reforming public administration -- Bureaucratic and civil service reform -- Public management reform in practice -- Public management reform defined -- The basic model -- Devolution and decentralization -- Executive and regulatory agencies -- Social organizations -- Managing from the strategic core -- A discussion of the reform -- Theoretical approaches to new public management -- Critics of reform -- The democratic constraint.