During the last two decades Public Administration, both as a field of study as well as a focus of serious academic research, experienced what some scholars refer to as "a re-founding movement," or a fundamental rethinking and redirection of its basic purposes, approaches, methods, and ideas. The causes of these re-founding trends remain unclear: Were they due to the end of the Cold War? Emergence of a global economy? The rise of America as the last global superpower? Shifting demographics?
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