Once one starts to explore the realities behind the discourse of
post-bureaucratic/transformed public governance change one often finds little
fundamental difference with much mainstream public administration, just some
re-arranging of the organizational furniture, despite frequent and manifold initiatives
That is not to say that the impact of these changes on the ground are not important.
The effects can often be dramatic and costly as the search for efficiency generates
greater transactions costs in order to maintain some form of equity in the distribution
of public services.