KICKERT, Walter J. M

Réformes administratives et gestion publique aux Pays-Bas - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1995

In the Netherlands, as in most Western countries, reducing public deficits has constituted the main objective of administrative reform. However, successive governments have attempts to find alternative solutions, persuaded that the pure and simple adoption of management and private competition methods would not suffice. This is why, parallel to the traditional approach, new relatioships have developes within the very heart of the administration, in order to increase their efficiency on both the level of public policy elaboration as well as its application