01754nam a2200193Ia 4500008004100000100002800041245011600069260000900185300001500194504000800209520104500217650002701262650002601289700004001315773005201355906002701407999001901434952010701453181130s2018    xx            000 0 und d  aLigouri, Mariannunziata  aStudying administrative reforms through textual analysis:�bthe case of Italian central government accounting  c2018  ap.308-333.  dJun  aThis 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.  aAdministrative reforms  aNew public management  aSteccolini, Iieana and Rota, Silvia  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences  aAdministrative reforms  c506780d506780  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-12-07h84(2), Jun, 2018: p.308-333.pAR118575r2018-12-07w2018-12-07yAR