ASKIM, Jostein <br/><br/>
How to carry out joined-up government reforms :  lessons from the 2001-2006 norwegian welfare reform 

 - Philadelphia :  Routledge,  October 2009 
<br/><br/> The article reports a case study of a recent and major reform in the Norwegian welfare sector, involving the employment service, the national insurance administration measures, namely partnerships and mergers. The study examines how instrumental problem solving in the reform process was conditioned by external forces, negotiations and administrative traditions. The analysis shows a transformative approach, in which the scope for rational problem solving is both constrained and anable by interests and cultural constraints.