ABSTRACT
Administrative reform is now informed by a number of ideas about how government should and could work, as well as about the failings of what had been the conventional model of government and administration. Each of the several models of change discussed above has a certain amount of validity, and has clear implications. The problem with implementing those ideas is that many implementers have been less clear about, and dedicated to, the concepts and their implications than have the academic and political advocates of change. That is, many implementers of reform have assumed that they could simply choose among a set of structural and procedural changes that appear to have worked elsewhere and then make them work in whatever combination they chose.
