This research seeks to investigate the relationship between globalization and the quality of government. By using the Quality of Government Institute data, the paper analyzes the relationships between globalization and the government quality. The paper uses both KOF scores and the scores by the Heritage Foundation to measure globalization. The results show that economic and political globalization is a significant predictor of the quality of government. When all the variables on economic freedom are taken into consideration, fiscal, business and trade freedoms are critical factors influencing the quality of governance.Keywords Globalization . Quality of government How to improve the quality of government is a perennial issue for the academics, policy makers and public administrators. Public administration theorists have wrestled with the questions of efficiency and effectiveness of organizations from a very early period going back to the days of Woodrow Wilson. However, with globalization, the role of public administration has changed because of the interplay of the formal and informal actors in the delivery of public services, the traditional function of the government. Many researchers have used the term governance to describe the functions of public administration. The quality of government has become an important theme of the researchers of public administration. For more than three decades, academics focused on globalization. One of the crucial questions is whether globalization leads to an improvement in the quality of government. Globalization is not a new phenomenon. It existed a long time ago when the East India Company established the business investment in India, and trade flowed from Asia to China and Europe. However, it is accelerated by the changed technology in information and communication. The modern Public Organiz Rev