Public management, governability, governance and a new conception of the State for postmodern times

Abstract

The present essay is original of its author. It is the product of an investigative process of documentary type, developed from authors selected based on their recognized authority in the related subjects, but also recent scientific publications, whose approaches are compatible with the author’s and their criteria consistent with the problematic under study, but also based on previous knowledge, introspection, discernment, analysis and personal reflections. The aim of this essay is to introduce a new concept of the State and public management, more in line with post-modern times. Current models have their basis in theoretical, philosophical and dominant conceptions in the relatively stable seventeenth, seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Such models are no longer suitable for the current complex century, characterized by dizzying changes, high levels of uncertainty and constant crises. Therefore, the issue addressed is important, necessary, fundamental and relevant for management in general, but in particular for public management.