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Globalization and Public Administration

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Introduction

The impact of globalization on public administration has been the subject of considerable academic interest over the last 35 years (see, e.g., Farazmand 1999, 2002; Whitfield 2001; Raco 2013). This has paralleled interest in what has come to be known as Public Choice Theory in economics and the New Public Management in public administration (see Medury 2012: chapter 1; Farazmand 1999, 2007: 1145, 1148, 1162). Both of these are closely aligned with neoliberalism, favoring markets, competition, and private property as preferred vehicles for the delivery of public services.

Those on the right have advocated in favor of them and their embrace of privatization policies, which have become a dominant theme of public administration across much if not all of the western world. Privatization in turn has enabled some, although not all, public services to go global by encouraging and enabling multinational firms to bid for contracts across the globe (Whitfield 2001: 46). Its...

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Hayward, D. (2017). Globalization and Public Administration. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1289-1

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