ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of public administration in a postglobal world. Specifically it explores how prevailing public administration theory is challenged and changed by a potentially new global economic order. The crisis of contemporary public administration theory is intertwined with the failure of neoliberalism. The collapse of market fundamentalism that defined the Reagan-Thatcher worldview has precipitated a crisis in public administration theory in the sense of implicating core questions about the role of the state in the economy and the attitude and functions that public administrators should assume. Neoliberal public administration theory as a normative vision of the role of the state in a global economy collapsed in 2008. Efforts in 2010 to redefine a new international banking system thus are part of an effort to rethink the role of government in the economy and also to reconceptualize the wisdom of a truly economically borderless world.
