ABSTRACT
Contents 1 Introduction .......................................................................................3 2 Capturing Globalization .....................................................................5 3 Globalization and Administrative Reform ..........................................8 4 Europeanization: Toward Common Administrative Practices? .........12 5 Conclusions ......................................................................................20 References ..................................................................................................21
together on an intercontinental scale. Furthermore, the notion of globalization as a process makes it possible to discover and unpack the strategies of different actors, both public and private, and to discuss issues of sustainability. To imbue the concept of globalization with ideological standpoints or to reject it outright because it is too encompassing to make any sense would therefore seem premature. According to one analyst, the word globalization does not even appear in any dictionaries before 1961, which indicates that it is related to contemporary thinking and to those unprecedented technological and economic advances intertwined with the later stages of industrialization and the emergence of postindustrial economies in many parts of the world.1
