This article focuses on the future of public administration scholarship for democracy, for practice, and for academe. As public administration is both local and global, it can be assumed that some trends and issues are unique to a country while some other phenomena are truly global. Thus, the future of public administration for practice and academe in a democratic setting always merits a discussion of both the global and the local elements. The global aspect of the study concerns its nature: interdisciplinary, being defined by and serving different audiences, and being problem-oriented rather than theory-oriented. It is this problem orientation in particular that links the study to local circumstances, as the study and its object – government – ultimately serve society. Thus, the question about the future of public administration has to include attention for the particular social, economic, and political context in which