Public Sector Reform in the Netherlands – Views and Experiences from Senior Executives: COCOPS National Report for The Netherlands

__Abstract__ Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future (COCOPS), as one of the largest comparative public management research projects in Europe, intends to provide a comprehensive picture of the challenges facing the public sector in European countries and to systematically explore the impact of New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms in Europe. The project brings together public administration scholars from eleven universities in ten countries2 and is funded as part of the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme between January 2011 and June 2014.3 The research is compa... Mehr ...