ABSTRACT
Globalization is fetching substantial change in both governmental and voluntary self-regulation of professions and occupations. The stodgy, even creaking, system of fragmented professional regulation in nations around the world is undergoing metamorphosis. Occupational regulation in the
United States has beenmoving from one largely undertaken and overseen by 50 states to one more amenable to national interests, from one operated to satisfy domestic stakeholder to one more international in scope, and from one largely governmental to one more dependent upon non-governmental interests and organizations. These changes in professional regulation mirror the development of American public administration from one characterized as the Old Public Administration into one more like the New Public Service, yet applicable globally. The changes reflect the applicability of different political, economic, and administrative theories too. Corresponding adjustments regulating professions within other nations are also proceeding rapidly because of globalization.
