When Norway was going to reform their introduction effort, according to their own statements, civil administrators and experts in the Introduction Act Commission were looking to their neighbouring countries to learn from their policy experiences; in particular, experiences from the reform in Denmark in 1999.
But their most visible reform, the introduction of a 10% value-added tax, has not been a wholly happy experience.
Fiscal reform, the introduction of market mechanisms and decentralisation are three key elements of health sector reform.
Last year's big welfare reforms – the introduction of the bedroom tax, changes to council tax benefit and the localisation of the social fund – are causing severe hardship and putting single people at risk of becoming homeless.
Did you know that PA Consulting has helped with NHS reforms, the introduction of fare collection across London's transport network, and saving councils money in providing their essential services?
There have been other reforms: the introduction of restricted-flight softballs to prevent injury; liberal rules about "courtesy runners," as pinch runners are known in senior softball parlance, to aid the movement-impaired; and the "scoring plate," which sits a few feet up the third-base line from the real home plate to avoid Ray Fosse-style collisions.
"Of all the reforms, the introduction of direct payments to tenants is expected to have the biggest impact – more than 80% of housing associations say it will affect their organisations a great deal or a fair amount," an NHF report warns.
But the veteran Labour MP Paul Flynn demanded Sir Jeremy apologise for the "overtly political nature of the article" which also quoted Mrs Thatcher's "radical tax reforms, the introduction of Right to Buy, a major overhaul of industrial relations law and the world's first privatisation programme".
The third bill had to wait for another Liberal ministry (the Conservatives had attempted to "kill Home Rule by kindness," to undermine its program by effecting moderate reforms); its introduction in 1912 inflamed the militant opposition of both unionists (led by Edward Carson) and republicans in Ireland.
His last great legal reform was the introduction of the Code Napoléon into his lands.
