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The article offers information on the modern delta-type senior civil service. This mentioned senior civil service is just one of the necessary changes in governance brought about by the present new conditions. Its redesigning is a necessity to be able to render knowledge and perspectives to the central government for higher-order tasks. Moreover, the author offers information recommendations for the development of a new senior civil service type which is appropriate for the government's higher-order tasks.

The article presents comments of professor Thomas R. Dye, in the second issue of the "Policy Studies Journal," raise a number of important problems. In general, the author finds himself in agreement with the problems and propositions as formulated by Professor Dye. But better clarification of the author's position may serve to pose in sharper form some issues faced by policy studies, by political science and by political scientists when orienting themselves to policy problems.

Having been invited by the Club of Rome to prepare a report on "Governance for the 21st Century," colleagues are invited to help by providing ideas, suggestions, papers, etc. Despite much progress in values and institutions, many core components of governance have not significantly improved during known history. These include, for instance, rulers, bureaucracies, the essence of decision process, main features of citizen behavior and more. Such relative stability of elements of governance in the face of global transformations produces growing incapacities to govern. The costs of such incapacities are increasing by order of magnitudes, because of the multiplying power of policy instruments supplied by science and technology.