ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter we explored the concept of public governance and did this in part by emphasizing its antecedent philosophies of government, meaning those offered in justification of centralized state planning in some varieties of socialist and communist thinking and in justification of neo-liberalism in the free market doctrines of the West. These past ways of thinking about designs of the role of government corresponded to a state-dominated approach to national development and a minimalist state approach.
