01770pab a2200205 454500 180718b2004 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Yesilkagit, Kutsal Reform styles of political and administrative elites in majoritarian and consensus democracies: public management reform 2004 p.951-74. One of the most important claims advanced by comparative public management studies is that these reforms have been more successfully implemented in majoritarian than in consensus democracies. The claim is built on the premise that the institutional structure of a majoritarian democracy enables a parliamentary majority to implement policies unilaterally and in a desired way whereas the institutional structure of a consensus democracy forces parliamentary majorities to negotiate compromises. This claim, we argue, lacks sufficient empirical backing, is biased by studies focusing on the initiation of reforms, and needs serious rethinking in the light of recent empirical studies that downplay the salience of institutions as an explanatory factor for variations in policy reform. With The Netherlands and New Zealand as cases, this article first shows that far-reaching reforms can be implemented in consensus systems too; secondly, it develops a model that centres on the interplay between institutions and politicians' reform styles and applies this to these countries. - Reproduced. Public administration - Netherlands Public administration - New Zealand Administrative reform - Netherlands Administrative reform - New Zealand Administrative reform Vries, Jouke De Public Administration 64155 64155 64155 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 82, Issue no: 4 AR64607 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR