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Introduction - Theoretical Approach and Research Questions -- Still Fragmented Government or Reassertion of the Centre? -- Reform Design and Performance in Australia and New Zealand -- Types of State Organizations: Arguments, Doctrines and Challenges Beyond New Public Management -- Convergence and Standardization in Telecommunications Regulation: Trajectories of Change and Reform in the Asian Pacific Regulatory State -- Organizing Immigration - a Comparison of New Zealand and Norway -- Central Banking Reform Across the World: Only by Night Are All Cats Grey -- Quests for Transparency: Sign of a New Institutional Era in the Health Care Field -- Public-Private Partnerships: A Comparative Perspective on Victoria and Denmark -- The Difficult Art of) Outsourcing Welfare Services: Experiences from Sweden and New Zealand -- New Public Management and the Ghost of Max Weber: Exorcized or Still Haunting?