01604pab a2200193 454500 180718b2013 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Karre, Philip Marcel Joined-up government in the Netherlands: Experience with program ministries 2013 p.63-73. Jan Over the last 15 years there have been many experiments with joined-up (also known as whole of) government practices, aimed at horizontal coordination to overcome the fragmentation of vertical governmental structures due to departmentalism and New Public Management. These practices were initiated to address wicked problems and to better interact with society at large. Now that there are signs that the rhetoric of joined-up government is winding down and many joined-up government developments are being dismantled, it is time to evaluate this approach. This is especially appropriate as some suggest that the overall impact of these developments may be relatively small, despite (overly) optimistic claims made in the past. In this article we take experiences with joined-up government in the Netherlands as the departing point for a critical discussion of this approach. By comparing the Dutch experiences with those in other countries, we will draw a picture of the challenges and dilemmas of horizontal coordination in the vertical world of government. - Reproduced. Administrative reform Twist, Mark Van Steen, Martiyn Van der International Journal of Public Administration N 99432 99431 99431 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 36, Issue no: 1 AR99892 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR