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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hood, Christopher |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
AESOP with variations: civil service competency as a case of German tortoise and British hare? |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2005 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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p.805-22. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Among the most widely used stereotypes in the contemporary literature on public management reform is to portrary German administrative policy as that of a slow-moving `tortoise' in contrast to the fast-moving reform `hare'. Taking civil service competency as a point of analysis, this article questions the validity of these widely held assumptions. It does so in three steps. Following a brief comparative narrative of competency initiatives in the German and British higher civil services, the article explores to what extent the observed `Aesop with variation' pattern can be explained. It suggests that the variations can only to a limited extent be explained by `civil service competency exceptionalism' and that therefore seems to be something wrong with the way that Germany and the UK are conventionally categorized in the international public management reform literature. - Reproduced. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Civil service |
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Lodge, Martain |
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Public Administration |
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