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Guest editorial: Rethinking the state of the administrative state: Is the state back in?

“…However, scholars have indicated that if the traditional administrative state was the full projection of the Weberian bureaucracy, the early 2000s saw the rebirth of the administrative state with a new form of bureaucracy. This new administrative state stands in opposition to and is a reaction to NPM, based on neoliberal principles, and draws on the achievements of traditional public administration (TPA) also known as the Weberian bureaucracy (Białynicki-Birula et al , 2017). It is a combination of the elements of TPA and the NPM, therefore the often used label post-NPM (Christensen and Lægreid, 2010).…”