CREATING NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORMS - LESSONS FRONT ISRAEL

The New Public Management (NPM) has been well studied in nations with previously reformed modern administrative systems. Considerably less i s known about the feasibility of adopting NPM reforms in countries suc h as Israel, in which national bureaucracies never gained a high degre e of institutional identity, administrative, expertise, or autonomous power What strategies and designs are appropriate for instituting such reforms and what barriers may they face Israel's well-designed effort to create self-sustaining administrative reform during 1994 through 1 996 reveals both workable approaches and some of their limits. Conside ring the Israeli case along with other single-country studies can enri ch our explanatory and prescriptive theories of administrative reform.