What is it about?

The megatrends of climate change, demographic change and fiscal austerity are already having major effects of European public administration (PA) and will have even greater impacts in future. Yet mainstream public management reforms currently make little connection with these megatrends, and academic PA has also been very slow in engaging with them.

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Why is it important?

The identified megatrends will be major shapers of our economies and societies - and therefore our public sectors. This article begins to identify what will be required for PA to offer a more adequate response to these pressures.

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This page is a summary of: Be prepared? An outside-in perspective on the future public sector in Europe, Public Policy and Administration, June 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0952076715590696.
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