Contents:
1. Comparing institutional development in Britain and Germany: (persistent) divergence or (progressing) convergence? - Hellmut Wollmann. - 2. State and society in Britain: some contrasts with German experience - Nevil Johnson. - 3. The administrative state in Germany - Klaus Konig. - 4. Regionalism in the United Kingdom: the role of social federalism - L. J. Sharpe. - 5. The institutional framework: federalism and decentralisation in Germany - Gerhard Lehmbruch. - 6. The development and preset state of local government in England and Germany - a comparison - Hellmut Wollmann. - 7. The public service in Britain: from administrative to managerial culture - Frederick F. Ridley. - 8. Actor constellation, opportunity structure and concept feasibility in German and British Public sector reforms - Hans-Ulrich Derlien. - 9. Local government services in the United Kingdom and Germany - Eckhard Schroter and Manfred Rober. - 10. Culture's consequences? In search of cultural explanations of british and german public sector reform - Eckhard Schroter. - 11. Regressive modernisation? The changing patterns of social services delivery in the United Kingdom - John Clarke and Paul Hogget. - 12. Social administration in Germany: basic structures and reform history - Dieter Grunow. - 13. Privatisation of social services in the United Kingdom - Brian Munday. - 14. Social service delivery by private and voluntary organisations in Germany - Rolf G. Heinze and Christoph Strunck. - 15. Trends in the marketisation of british social services - Michael Hill. - 16. The rise and fall of a social service regime: marketisation of german social services in historical perspective - Frank Bonker and Hellmut Wollmann. - 17. Explaining success in administrative reform - B. Guy Peters.
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