Public Administration Reforms: Is it a Global Regulation?

It is commonly observed that the state has been in a restructuring process for over two decades. Liberal policies have been the sole criterion to decide what, to what extent and how the state should do. Widespread public sector reforms have occurred in compliance with this process and it can be asserted that there has been a global reform wave. This article examines public sector reform experience of some countries. It explores, firstly, pressures and incentives that have led to reform attempts in different cases. Thereafter, it tries to define differences and convergences between the methods, and targets of reforms. It also discusses the outcomes of reform attempts. Consequently, it seems that a reform attempt, which embraces most principals of new public management, is welcomed at an almost global level at least as a discourse. However, the outcomes of reforms are so problematic that it raises the following question: "Why, how and to whose benefit should public administration reform be done?"