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the civil service that is preventing a problem-solving approach, and there are
organizational changes and other shifts in public life that distance us from the
Twenties. But the Weberian system has actually (been) adapted to them very
successfully, as Continental PA always has. Both to characterize these and to
denote a post-post-NPM, synergetic system of PA, perhaps a specifically European
one that is not a NPM "laggard" but the opposite, Pollitt and Bouckaert, in what is
now the standard book on Public Management Reform, have coined in the second
edition (September 2004) the term "Neo-Weberian State" or NWS. I think it is wise to
accept that label for the sake of clarity and uniformity, even if I do not agree
completely with all details (for my earlier thought on the matter, see Drechsler 2003,
2005a, upon which much of the current article is based), and even though the Weber
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