Public Administration
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Edited By: Arjen Boin
Impact Factor: 1.292
ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2010: 12/39 (Public Administration)
Online ISSN: 1467-9299
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Current Issue:December 2011
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Key Articles
From the new editorial team: Arjen Boin, Chris Ansell, Martin Lodge, Salvador Parrado, Kai Wegrich, and Lan Xue, a free to access editorial ‘A Time for Public Administration’.
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What's Measured Is What Matters: Targets And Gaming In The English Public Health Care System
Gwyn Bevan, Christopher Hood
Was local governance such a good idea? A global comparative perspective
Gerry Stoker
A Public Management For All Seasons
Christopher Hood
Evaluation, Policy Learning and Evidence-Based Policy Making
Ian Sanderson
Street-level bureaucracy and public accountability
Peter Hupe and Michael Hill
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Top 5 most cited articles from 2010-2011
The Competent Boundary Spanner
Paul Williams
'Accountability': An Ever-Expanding Concept?
Richard Mulgan
Whats measured is what matters: Targets and gaming in the English public health care system
Gwyn Bevan, Christopher Hood
Evaluation, policy learning and evidence-based policy making
Ian Sanderson
Delivering joined-up government in the UK: Dimensions, issues and problems
Tom Ling
Announcing the Haldane Prize for Best Article in 2011
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 now defunct Royal Institute of Public Administration). Richard Haldane (1st Viscount Haldane, 1856-1928) was a significant Liberal (later Labour) statesperson. Haldane contributed significantly to post-First World War discussions on the 'machinery of government', military organisation, the funding of universities and the promotion of science. The principles of his reforms shape debates until the present day. His mission was to make this journal lead debates into core matters affecting public administration across the world and the Prize is to reaffirm this commitment. This year's jury consists of Paul 't Hart (Utrecht University), Edward Page (London School of Economics) and Paul Schulman (Mills College). Announcement of the winner will be made in the first issue of 2012.
Public Administration: 25 Years of Analysis and Debate
Public Administration: 25 Years of Analysis and Debate presents a history of the last quarter century of journal Public Administration by its editor R. A. W. Rhodes, and features a collection of the journal's most influential articles published between 1986 and 2011.
- Features a history of the evolution of Public Administration over the past 25 years
- Provides highly cited source material of proven quality in a single volume
- Represents an ideal supplementary reader for any public administration and public management course

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