01168pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002100040245005300061260000900114300001300123362000800136520073500144650003500879650002600914700001800940773005200958180718b1998   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aChristensen, Tom  aAdministrative reform policy: the case of Norway  c1998  ap.457-75  aSep  aThis article outlines a number of perspectives on the development of Norway's administrative policy. The content of the renewal and modernization programmes in Norwegian public administration in the 1980s will be analysed and related to traditional, administrative values, as well as to the trend towards the New Public Management (NPM) and other more specific changes in central public administration in the last decade. The article present some results from a survey conducted in 1996, focusing on the relevance and effects of some of the more recent reforms in central public administration. The article concludes by discussing the Norwegian way of reforming public administration and the implications for administrative policy  aAdministrative reform - Norway  aAdministrative reform  aLoegreid, Per  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences