Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 15th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Panel on Getting Public Administration Reform to Work Author(s) Frits Van Den Berg Patom utrecht Netherlands Title Sustainable state reform File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract In the first part of the paper a state will be characterised as a four variable configuration. This will be followed by a discussion on state reform as a configuration-switch or quantum- change ( in the sense of Henry Mintzberg and his school ) and state reform as an image-switch in the sense of Morgan. This theoretical model will be used to develop criteria for sustainable changes in central and eastern Europe