This text goes ‘upstream’ of administrative reform itself in order to track the development of research questions in this subject area by social scientists since the end of the 1970s. Given the importance of such questions for research design and interpretation of its results, it is necessary to grasp the intellectual contexts within which administrative reform has been studied in Britain and France. The differences observed are explained essentially by tracing the institutionalisation of ideas which has taken place within academia itself over the past three decades
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