GOVERNANCE reform and public management reform has been high on the agenda in the
advanced democracies for the past decades. Both types of reform could be seen as
strategies to adapt the public sector to meet new challenges, and in both types of reform the
purported rigidity of government institutions and decision-making processes have been an
important target. Governance reform and management reform are both predicated on some
degree ofinstitutional flexibility in public sector organizations. In order to engage civil society …