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

Year 2017, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 80 - 94, 01.06.2017

Shikha Vyas-doorgapersad Coşkun Can Aktan

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