PUBLIC GOVERNANCE IN SMALL CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN STATES*

INTRODUCTION

In this article a historical overview will be presented of public governance in some small continental European countries. The aim is to broaden up the present debate about public management developments in Western administrations, by placing it in an international comparative perspective, as well as a historical institutional one.

*This article is an abbreviated version of a paper published in the volume by O.van Heffen, W. Kickert and J. Thomassen (eds):Governance in Modern Society, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000.

Acknowledgments

Notes

*This article is an abbreviated version of a paper published in the volume by O.van Heffen, W. Kickert and J. Thomassen (eds):Governance in Modern Society, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000.