Introduction: Public administration has a long history. There are mainly three stages in the progress of public administration evolution, namely the early administration, the traditional model of administration and the new public management. In the past two decades there has been an unprecedented wave of reforms as the traditional model of public administration has come under attack. These reforms originated in developed industrial economies, whose political leaders were under pressure to keep down levels of …showed first 75 words of 2238 total…

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