Public Administration
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Edited By: Martin Lodge
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Online ISSN: 1467-9299
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Important Updates
Major award for 'Conflicts of Interest in International Organizations'
Valentina Mele, Simon Anderfuhren-Biget and Frederic Varone have been awarded the International Geneva Award by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). The jury praised the article’s ‘new insight ..in a world looking for more and more transparency of civil servants at the international level’. To celebrate this award, the article is temporarily unlocked and available here.
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The Management Of Change In Public Organizations: A Literature Review
Ben S. Kuipers, Malcolm Higgs, Walter Kickert, Lars Tummers, Jolien Grandia and Joris Van Der Voet (2014)
Evaluation, Policy Learning And Evidence-Based Policy Making
Ian Sanderson (2002)
What’s Measured Is What Matters: Targets And Gaming In The English Public Health Care System
Gwyn Bevan and Christopher Hood (2006)
Top 5 most cited articles in 2015
The Management of Change in Public Organizations: A Literature Review
Kuipers, Ben S.; Higgs, Malcolm; Kickert, Walter; Tummers, Lars; Grandia, Jolien; Van der Voet, Joris (2014)
Explaining Radical Policy Change: The Case of Climate Change and Energy Policy Under the British Labour Government 2006-10
Carter, Neil; Jacobs, Michael (2014)
Does Performance Information About Public Services Affect Citizens' Perceptions, Satisfaction, and Voice Behaviour? Field Experiments with Absolute and Relative Performance Information
James, Oliver; Moseley, Alice (2014)
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Independent agencies under stress: Central Banks in aftermath of the Great Recession
We invite papers to contribute to a symposium on the dilemmas that independent agencies confront in managing their new and potentially conflicting mandates in a climate of heightened political contestation. Further details are available here.
We invite papers to contribute to a special issue on the role accounting and performance measurement systems in the public sector. Further details are available here.
Haldane Prize
Each year a distinguished jury will award the Haldane prize to the author(s) of the best article published in Public Administration. The Haldane prize commemorates one of the founders of Public Administration (and first President of the Royal Institute of Public Administration), Richard Haldane.
"The Haldane Prize committee, consisting of , Evan Berman, Oliver James and Susanne Schmidt awards the 2016 Prize to Anthony M. Bertelli, J. Andrew Sinclair and Haram Lee for their article Media Attention and the Demise of Agency Independence: Evidence from a Mass Administrative Reorganization in Britain. In the committee’s view this article makes an innovative and significant contribution to understanding the termination of public organisations in democracies. Rather than agency death as a binary outcome (continued/terminated) the authors focus on the immediate and relevant political aftermath of the termination decision. This approach contributes a rich conceptualisation of termination with a clear measure of reputation in terms of media salience. The research uses a difference-in-differences statistical framework which is unusual in public administration and find that terminating agencies is an effective political control strategy, pointing to the difficulties that organisations of this kind have in establishing protective reputations."
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