01635nam a2200181Ia 4500 181130s2018 xx 000 0 und d Ligouri, Mariannunziata Studying administrative reforms through textual analysis:� the case of Italian central government accounting 2018 p.308-333. Jun This article contributes to the literature on public sector reforms by proposing textual analysis as a useful research strategy to explore how reform archetypes and related ideas are deployed in the parliamentary debate and regulations advancing reforms. Public Administration (PA), New Public Management (NPM) and Public Governance (GOV) can be depicted as three different archetypes providing characteristic administrative ideas and concepts and related tools and practices, which lead reforms. We use textual analysis to look into more than 20 years of Italian central government accounting reforms and investigate how the three administrative archetypes have evolved, intertwined and replaced each other. Textual analysis proves a useful tool through which to investigate reform processes and allows us to show that in neo-Weberian countries, such as Italy, NPM and GOV, far from being revolutionary paradigms, may represent fashionable trends that have not left significant traces in the practice and rhetoric of reforms. - Reproduced. Administrative reforms New public management Steccolini, Iieana and Rota, Silvia International Review of Administrative Sciences Administrative reforms 506780 506780 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-12-07 84(2), Jun, 2018: p.308-333. AR118575 2018-12-07 2018-12-07 AR