ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the trajectory of public administration from a local to a global awareness. It discusses how the shift from a local to a global perspective has affected US politics and public administration. The chapter explains the relationship between globalization and governance. It explores the challenges in applying comparative public administration research to global development issues. It offers recommendations on how to prepare globally competent public administrators and organizations. It highlights the US ambivalence between globalism and parochialism, tension between public policy-making and market-driven solutions, and conflict between national sovereignty and networked governance. The chapter also describes the evolutionary convergence of domestic diversity and global multiculturalism and explores what it means and what it feels like to be a global public administrator. It discusses how to build global competencies in individuals and organizations. By increasing demands for effective and responsive governance, the shift from a local to a global perspective has helped transform US politics and public administration.
