Table of contents - Special Issue: Public management reform in countries in the Napoleonic administrative tradition: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Guest Editors: Edoardo Ongaro
Introduction: the reform of public management in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain
Edoardo OngaroThis paper aims to outline the contents of the special issue on public management reform in countries in the Napoleonic administrative tradition, discussing alternative…
The Napoleonic tradition
B. Guy PetersThis paper intends to provide a framework for understanding the concept of administrative tradition, and then applies it to Napoleonic administrative systems.
Reform without doctrine: public management in France
Luc RoubanThis paper aims to give an overview of the public management process in France and tries to explain why it is specific as compared to other countries.
State reform in Greece: responding to old and new challenges
Calliope SpanouThe paper attempts to assess the impact of reforms of the last 25 years on Greek administration and more specifically on its Napoleonic features. Given that those have been…
Public management reform in Italy: explaining the implementation gap
Edoardo Ongaro, Giovanni ValottiThe aim of this paper is to outline the sets of factors influential on the implementation of public management reform in the politico‐administrative context of Italy.
Public management reform in Portugal: successes and failures
Isabel Corte‐RealThe purpose of the paper is to address the question of the influence of the administrative tradition and the politico‐administrative context on the formulation and implementation…
Failed policies but institutional innovation through “layering” and “diffusion” in Spanish central administration
Salvador ParradoThis paper aims to show that the Spanish central administration, as a representative of the Napoleonic tradition, has undergone considerable managerial changes in non‐autonomous…
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0951-3558Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Professor Rocco Palumbo