ABSTRACT
What is the status of public service and administration in the current age of globalization? Why is public service and administration under attack and in poverty, and what is the fate of public administration as a field of study and practice? These are fundamental and burning questions of our time at the turn of the 21st century. Can public administration be revitalized to perform its noble missions of public service, human development, and world civilization? Elsewhere (Farazmand, forthcoming-a), I have detailed an affirmative answer to this question. However, to understand why a revitalization of the field is needed we must first understand the current global crises that have crippled the field in theory and practice. This is the task of this chapter.
