Comparative public administration and comparative law as a resource for learning: an introduction M A RT I N EIFE RT : An introduction

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Comparative public administration and comparative law as a resource for learning: an introduction M A RT I N EIFE RT

ABSTRACT

Once upon a time, public administration was considered a system which was primarily characterised by inertia, thus evolving very slowly at best. In the course of the last two decades, however, public administration has been increasingly affected by the faster and faster changes in modern societies. Government has been reinvented and re-engineered, and long before its new shape could be finalised, the next wave of modernisation had already started: electronic government.