The diffusion of Government’s traditional roles with the dawn of new public management (NPM) paradigms does not mean that the government will be irrelevant in today’s world. Instead, the government remains distinctive and indispensable entity for the exercise of public management. What has been witnessed in the emergence of Globalization is not the end of the government but rather a transformation of the government and evolution of its roles and responsibilities. It is only an affirmation that everything follows a certain life cycle. With the dawn of globalization, a life cycle of governance paradigm ended, especially in the western democracies yet another cycle began, the NPM paradigm.
Today’s challenges are much different than in the past, hence our solutions continue to evolve, just as how governance transformed in response to the changing challenges of the times. As for NPM, much has been promised, however, not everything has been achieved. It can be expected therefore that NPM will continue to evolve, probably in another name or with other set of principles in pursuit of solutions to the gaps left unfilled.
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