After the rapid expansion of the welfare state in the 1950s and 1960s, the public sector has been under considerable pressure in the past few decades. Declining public confi dence in government institutions and growing demands on public fi nances have prompted governments to initiate measures to trim the public sector and make it more effi cient and effective. Reform strategies adopted can be catalogued as: Maintain, Modernise, Marketise and Minimise (Pollit and Bouckaert 2004).

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Van de Walle, S., Sterck, M., van Dooren, W., Bouckaert, G., & Pommer, E. (2004). Public administration. In Public sector performance: An international comparison of education, health care, law and order and public administration in 29 Western countries. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/41542