What is a Neo-Weberian State? Reflections on a Concept and its Implications

Abstract

According to Pollitt and Bouckaert, “there are continuing broad differences between different groups of countries” (2004, 102). These groups are the “maintainers”, the “modernizers”, and the “marketizers”. But, as I understand them, there are really only two groups of great interest in the context of reform: the core, Anglo-American NPM marketizers and the continental European modernizers. The reform model of this latter group is what Pollitt and Bouckaert classify as the Neo-Weberian State.