ABSTRACT
The global waves of administrative reform of the last 25 years or so have produced intense political and administrative debates, monumental volumes of scholarly research and publication, and fundamental changes in directions and outcomes that have captured much of the discourse on governance and public administration, on the role and size of government in economy and society, and on how public management should be organized. New paradigmatic changes have developed and as a result of these changes, new trends have surfaced with new ideological claims, and new organizational patterns have been prescribed with theoretical and practical applications worldwide.
