Impact of Globalization on Public Administration

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the positive and negative impact of globalization on public administration system and Moreover, an example is also used to describe the impact of globalization on public administration.

Table of Contents

Introduction4

Discussion4

Positive and Negative Impact of Globalization on Public Administration4

Example7

Conclusion7

References9

Impact of Globalization on Public Administration

Introduction

With the revolution of information technology, globalization is considerably changing human behavior, governance of states and administration of businesses much greatly than the industrial revolution transformed the agricultural society. The trade and markets, in actual fact, are borderless, mobile instruments and internet has made communication much easier and so the world is getting much closer. As globalization is noticeably dividing the globe into powerful and weak countries with respect to information technology, economy and trade, the champion and the loser without doubt happen in the worldwide marketplace. However, majority of people in the world still get their indications not from the global financial markets but from the national capital, and hence private access to the twenty four hour connected world still remains limited to only a minority of the global population (Farazmand, 1999). In the meantime, public administration systems emerge to facilitate some countries to have much more benefits than others, still if a number of social scientists consider that international economic, political systems and trade have played more important role in facilitating some countries to get much more benefits than others.

Discussion

Positive and Negative Impact of Globalization on Public Administration

Globalization also refers to unparalleled massive and rapid movement of capital. This integration and interdependence is accelerated and facilitated by latest technology, especially information technology.

Developed countries, including the North American and Western European countries have unquestionably benefited far more from globalization than others due to the nature of globalization and very strong systems of public administration. On the other side, several developing countries have benefited less from globalization since they have substantial disadvantages in the worldwide marketplace together with weak public administration systems. The concern is the nature of globalization and the worldwide market systems which are ahead of the limitations of public administration countering to those factors ahead of public administration systems. Those factors are openly linked to the reason public administration systems in developing countries have benefited far less from globalization than developed countries (Mathews, 1991).

Globalization has been principally accelerated by capitalism rather than public administration, politics and democracy. When moved from national capitalism to global capitalism, the markets and capital logic tends to rule the democratic values. However, capitalism seeks a powerful state with a steady environment for its affluence. Global markets would not work efficiently without a proper national or international interference for market breakdowns which considerably keep domestic and global markets from functioning efficiently. For instance, in the international market place unfair trade, unfair competition, price control, and handling of financial flows have extremely affected cross national boundaries. Few Asian countries like Taiwan and South Korea were financially distressed in the late 1990s because of the unregulated or free currency flows from the main ...