Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government By Peter Aucoin, Mark D. Jarvis and Lori Turnbull. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2011. Pp. 250, index (original) (raw)

Public Administration Reforms: Is it a Global Regulation

It is commonly observed that the state has been in a restructuring process for over two decades. Liberal policies have been the sole criterion to decide what the state should do, to what extent and how it should be done. Widespread public sector reforms have occurred in compliance with this process and it can be asserted that there has been a global reform wave. This article examines the public sector reform experience of some countries. It explores, firstly, the pressures and incentives that have led to reform attempts in different cases. Thereafter, it tries to define differences and con-vergences between the methods, and targets of reforms. It also discusses the outcomes of reform attempts. Consequently, it seems that a reform attempt, which embraces most principles of new public management, is welcomed at an almost global level at least as a discourse. However, the outcomes of reforms are so problematic that it raises the following question: " Why, how and in whose benefit should public administration reform be made? "