HUDDLESTON, Mark W <br/><br/>
Onto the darkling plain :  globalization and the American public service in the twenty-first century 

 -  2000 
<br/><br/> Although most people in the public administration community-practitioners and scholars alike-recognize that the American public service must prepare for the challenges of a "globalized" future, the general consensus seems to be that these challenges will be manageable, pershaps even intersting and fun. Drawing ont he insights of some contemporary theories of international relations, this article suggests that the impact of globalization on the public service may be considerably less congenial than that. At aminimum, globalization will, through its continuing "hollowing out" of the state, induce crisis of accountability, competence, and legitimacy in public administration. Two alternative scenarios that flow from these crisis, both of them quite bleak, are discussed in some detail: global regime manaagement and neomedieval administration. The article concludes that these adverse impacts of globalization may well be inevitable in the next century. Efforts to salvage even a reduced role for public administration will require considerable ingenuity