ABSTRACT
Reform is difficult to accomplish. Political science and public administration literature is rife with examples of the barriers that hamper reform. If one would want to reform a policy sector, one could stumble over a number of obstacles, including budgetary obligations (which limit options because there is no money), goals set by outsiders (if parliament passes a law with new goals for the organization, the organization has to use its resources to obtain these goals), the paradigm of the policy sector (which includes values that dictate how to achieve goals, how to deal with certain problems and how not to) and reluctant civil servants (who could decide not to implement reform ideas).
