Globalization and Public Administration Farazmand (1999)

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Globalization and Public AdministrationFarazmand
(1999)

• Globalization is a result of
• Surplus accumulation capital
• The state
• Domestic constraints
• Information technology
• International institutions
• Ideology

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Globalization and Public AdministrationFarazmand
(1999)

• Globalization has altered public administration
  from traditional welfare administrative state to
  a corporate welfare state
• Capitalism and the state need each other
• Capitalism needs a strong state and stable
  environment to prosper (order and social control)
• Modern state has through public expenditures
  played a pivotal role in the accelerated
  development of capitalism and globalization

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Globalization and Public AdministrationFarazmand
(1999)

• Globalization as
• Internationalization increase in cross-border
  relations among organizations
• Border openness removing state regulatory
  barriers and protectionist measures
• A process continuing process of capital
  accumulation
• Ideology Western capitalist democracy
• A phenomenon cause and effect of world
  capitalisms efforts to reach global markets
• Transcending phenomenon and a process constant
  process of expansion and accumulation by global
  capitalism and caused by the process of global
  capital accumulation

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Globalization and Public AdministrationFarazmand
(1999)

• Consequences of globalization on the state and
  public administration
• Continuity and persistence of the state with some
  changes
• Reinforcement of supraterritorial governance
  organizations
• Increased interdependence among states to handle
  territorial and supraterritorial issues
• Increased use of information-age advantages
  global hegemony
• Increased partnerships and promotions by
  government of the private sector
• Shift from welfare state to corporate state
• Negative consequences
• Threat to state sovereignty
• Threat to democracy and community
• Corruption and elite empowerment

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Globalization and Public AdministrationFarazmand
(1999)

• Implications for public administration
• Need to be proactive in managing societal
  resources away from the dominant control of
  globalizing corporate elites
• Resist transition from civil administration to
  noncivil with social control and facilitation of
  capital accumulation
• Must do more with less
• Professionalization of public administration
• Resist the market-based concepts of treating
  citizens as consumers
• Avoid cultural imperialism
• Encourage public spiritedness and participation
• Integrate globalization in the study of public
  administration
• World comparative study of governance and public
  administration
• Raise consciousness about global issues
• Raise consciousness about global issues
• Guardians of global community interests and
  ethics
• Globalization broadens public administration
  research

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Onto the Darkling PlainHuddleston (2000)

• To cope with globalization, public administration
  must
• Learn from other systems and embrace the
  international component of public administration
• Change management practices from those rooted in
  hierarchy representativeness to flat,
  networked, responsible global styles
• Recognize interdependence and that nothing will
  be fully local again
• Encourage public managers to focus on
  international economic competitiveness and remove
  barriers that inhibit business growth
• Embrace diversity avoid ethnocentricity
• Build bridges to partners abroad

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Onto the Darkling PlainHuddleston (2000)

• Are the challenges of globalization manageable?
• Viscous circle globalization undermines the
  structures of governance that are needed to cope
  with the challenges of globalization.
• Sovereignty is outdated notion

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Onto the Darkling PlainHuddleston (2000)

• Dynamics of globalization generates three crises
• Accountability
• Governance (competence
• Legitimacy

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Onto the Darkling PlainHuddleston (2000)

• Possible scenarios are
• Global regime management nonterritorial
• Neomedieval administration no stable authority
  structures

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Onto the Darkling PlainHuddleston (2000)

• Public administration is incomprehensible absent
  the framework of the state.