Editorial
| Author | Andrew Massey |
| Published date | 01 March 2022 |
| Date | 01 March 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00208523211070744 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editorial
Andrew Massey
King’s College London, UK
Looking back over 10 years to the March 2012 edition of the International Review of
Administrative Sciences (issue 78(1)), we can see that it was a special issue. Edited by
Albert J. Meijer, the issue explored Government Transparency. It included articles by
Albert Meijer, David Heald, Stephan Grimmelikhusen, Gijs Brandsma, Eric Welch,
Dacian Dragos, Alasdair Roberts and Itai Beeri. The special issue explored concerns
of government transparency in terms of open government, the WikiLeaks controversy
and various US and European examples. All the authors were from European, North
American and Israeli institutions. Like the majority of the articles published in that and
previous years, the focus was predominantly North American and EU centric (mostly
northern and western European), with occasional forays into Australian and New
Zealand arenas. Outside of this group of countries it was fairly rare to find a published
paper or author.
The journal’s special issues retain a particular emphasis on what are often wicked
issues in global public administration. But now they also reflect the extent to which
IRAS has become a sincerely global journal. For example, special issues published in
2021 included:
1. Testing the crisis: opportunity management and governance of the COVID-19 pan-
demic compared
2. Building capacity for development: role of public administration in Asia and Latin
America
3. Reverse privatization and re-municip alization of local public services –incidence,
causes and prospects
4. International bureaucracy and the United Nations system
with each issue focusing to a greater or lesser extent on a global comparison as to how the
concerns of delivery in public administration vary over time and place internationally and
Corresponding author:
Andrew Massey, International School for Government, King’s College London, Virginia Woolf Building,
22 Kingsway, Holborn, London WC2B 6LE, UK.
Email: andrew.1.massey@kcl.ac.uk
International Review of Administrative
Sciences
2022, Vol. 88(1) 3–5
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