ABSTRACT
The decade of the 1990s was an era of rapid change in government with the “new public management” encouraging competition, devolution, contracting out, privatization, entrepreneurial government, and other reforms that brought fundamental changes to many structures and processes of government. These reforms and innovations reflected changing values and belief systems about what government should do and how it should operate, and had the effect of fundamentally altering governmental structures in many cases. And, though less widely recognized, these innovations and structural changes resulted in profound ethical implications as well.
