Practice question · True or false
The three waves of reform replaced one another, so a modern administration operates on the most recent model only.
Hints
- Consider what a European administration actually contains today.
- Legal procedure, performance indicators, networks and digital reintegration coexist.
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False
Why
False: they accumulated. A European administration today runs Weberian legal procedure, new public management performance indicators, governance networks and digital reintegration simultaneously, often in different parts of the same organisation. That accumulation is why reform feels contradictory from inside and why no single model describes any real administration.
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