This document discusses debates around new management practices and the changing role of the state in regulation. It summarizes that early debates focused on non-traditional forms of labor control emerging in the 1980s-1990s. While management was taking a more interventionist role in controlling workers, the state's role became more facilitative in creating conditions for this new regime. However, more recent trends show a return to direct forms of control through intensified performance measurement and management. At the same time, the state has become more disconnected and volatile as it pushes responsibility for rule-making and performance onto decentralized organizations while struggling with limited resources and contradictions in its own policies.