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Whether and in what ways public management reform changes administrative systems can only be raised in cases of substantial reform policies that bring about changes in standards and habits, and, as a consequence, in the administrative system itself. Three distinct hypotheses explain the transformation of administrative systems through changing public management tools, pressures, and restructuring. Four main strategy patterns are observable: maintaining, modernizing, marketing, and minimizing. With respect to the change of administration systems, it could be posited that the Weberian state has shifted to the neo-Weberian state under the influence of a maintain/modernize-based public management reform trajectory.