Public Governance and Leadership: Outline of the Subject

The following collection of contributions deals with strategic aspects of both design and implementation of large scale modernisations of the management of state and administration. To set the stage for all the further discussions, this introduction aims to outline in terms of a research programme how strategic aspects of that kind have be/ or can be made the subject of analysis from a rather pragmatic perspective. In line with the currently most pressing challenges, this introduction is used to demonstrate how notably ongoing ‘governance changes’ are to be/ or should be made drivers or starting points to give the whole process of modernising the management of state and administration the nowdesired more strategic shape.