000			01635nam a2200181Ia 4500
008			181130s2018 xx 000 0 und d
100			_aLigouri, Mariannunziata
245			_aStudying administrative reforms through textual analysis:� _bthe case of Italian central government accounting
260			_c2018
300			_ap.308-333.
504			_dJun
520			_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.
650			_aAdministrative reforms
650			_aNew public management
700			_aSteccolini, Iieana and Rota, Silvia
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
906			_aAdministrative reforms
999			_c506780 _d506780