CHANGING WORLD and CHANGING STATE: RETHINKING THE ROLES OF THE STATE

Abstract

In the modern era of governance, state is experiencing diverse transformation technologically, economically, politically, socially, culturally, demographically and so on. The paper classifies these transformative reforms into economic, political, socio-cultural, and technological changes and therefore redefining state in accordance with these change trends. The concern raised in this paper is: how did these transformations effect the role and the functions of the state? The desktop study utilises the use of literature and documents, hence follows a qualitative and analytical approach to answer this concern, that is a subject matter of this introductory paper.

Keywords

• state, transformation, government, government reform, change trends, economic change trends, political change trends, socio-cultural change trends, technological change trends