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and its attendant marketplace ethos, the context of public administration is no
longer exclusively the government agency or even nation, but rather an interna-
tional, intersectoral process that is at serious risk of being undemocratic in nature.
is has signicant implications for both theory and practice that have only begun
to be explored—issues that “spill over onto the most basic questions of American
governance” (Kettl 1993, 211). Indeed, the implications rupture the very founda-
tions of the eld. “It is no longer simply the science and art of public aairs and
administration that we are preoccupied with, as it is a deeper search for mission
and purpose, and a new role in the rapidly evolving world” (Mazma ...