Governance Reforms Across Time and Space: An Introduction to the Book

Governance and administrative reforms have characterized human actions in changing, improving, developing, and modifying governments and their institutions of administration and management throughout history since ancient times. Indeed, reforming governments and administrative systems has always been a regular occurrence, and it has been the regular business of modern governments. Each generation of human beings has witnessed monumental changes—some in the form of reforms, others in the form of revolutions, or turmoil of one kind or another (Farazmand, 1989a, b; Peters, 2002).