Governments were faced with declining real revenue, but with political demands to maintain services at the same levels. In these circumstances, the only avenue was to improve productivity, hen theories suggest that bureaucratic provsion is inherently jnefficent, when economic Studies show the same thing, it is little wonder that politicians began to ask awkwar guestions. Why should public servants have permanent, lifetime employment When no one else does, why should they not be hired by contracts? lf someone employed to do a job, what is so wrong in seeing if it was carred out? The public services had lost public support to such an extent that gowemments found little resistance to changes which would have once been regarded as destroying the very notion of a public serice. once change began the various aspects of the traditional model were taken apart