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In previous decades, many European countries have rearranged their government apparatus into many specialized, (semi-)autonomous agencies under the banner of ‘New Public Management’. This specialization, but also the subsequent fragmentation, leads to a substantial challenge to coherently implement and coordinate horizontal or government-wide policy objectives (Verhoest et al., 2007). Also in the Flemish government these kinds of reforms took place and nowadays policy coherence, interagency coordination and collaboration and cross-cutting policy issues are high on the agenda.
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Molenveld, A., Verhoest, K. (2014). A Cross-Cutting Program for Coherence: Flanders in Action. In: Lægreid, P., Sarapuu, K., Rykkja, L.H., Randma-Liiv, T. (eds) Organizing for Coordination in the Public Sector. Public Sector Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137359636_10
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