The Diminishing Publicness of Public Service under the Current Mode of Governance

摘要: In this article, it is argued that while there has been an apparent eclipse in discourse regarding the publicness or public quality of service, recent transition toward a market-driven mode governance created serious challenge to such publicness. More specifically, contemporary businesslike changes objectives, structures, functions, norms, and users service tend diminish its terms current trends eroding public-private distinction, shrinking socioeconomic role, narrowing composition recipients, worsening condition accountability, declining level trust. Based on existing studies, empirical findings, country experiences, article delineates basic criteria determining uses these demonstrate how reforms have led erosion publicness, makes recommendations for reviving service.