Connecting public service with civic duty and advancing both as disciplines of facilitative governance are opportunities and challenges today. Making these linkages is a theme of this analysis, and theories and practices of facilitative nation states are the principal focus. Executive aggrandizement and combined complexities of a growing paradox of partisan fragmentation and seamless connections of politics, business, and government compose a second theme. Garrison state dimensions of counterterrorism are related. The final focus is on political and career service and standards of social and economic self-governance. Facilitative state disciplines of constitutional democracy are stressed in conclusion.
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