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100			_aHood, Christopher
245			_aAesop with variations: civil service competency as a case of German tortoise and British hare?
260			_c2005
300			_ap.805-22.
520			_aAmong the mostly widely used stereotypes in the contemporary literature on public management reform is to portray German administrative policy as that of a slow-moving `tortoise' in contrast to the fast-moving reform `hare'. Taking civil service competency as a point of analysis, this article questions the validity of these widely held assumptions. it does so in three steps. Following a brief comparative narrative of competency initiatives in the German and British higher civil services, the article explores to what extent the observed ~Aesop with variation" pattern can be explained. It suggests that the variations can only to a limited extent be explained by `civil service competency exceptionalism' and that therefore seems to be something wrong with the way that Germany and the UK are conventionally categorized in the international public management reform literature. - Reproduced.
650			_aCivil service
700			_aLodge Martin
773			_aPublic Administration
909			_a70301
999			_c70301 _d70301