Editors' Preface
| Date | 01 October 2015 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1742 |
| Published date | 01 October 2015 |
EDITORIAL
Editors’Preface
This special issue ofPublic Administration and Developmentgrew out of two prior activities. First wasa panel at the
Annual Conference of the International ResearchSociety for Public Management (IRSPM), held at theUniversity of
Birmingham, UK, in lateMarch 2015. The panel, organized by Derick Brinkerhoff and Richard Batley(University of
Birmingham), assembled fourteen papers presented in four sessions across two days that collectively offered
frameworks, country cases, and commentary on the panel topic, “Beyond Good Governance and NPM: Alternative
Frameworks for Public Management in Developing Countries.”The second activity was a one-day workshop held
in London immediately following the IRSPMconference on “Doing Development Differently: Can It Be Managed?”
This workshop, jointly organized and sponsored by the Overseas Development Institute, RTI International, and
Universityof Birmingham, assembled a selectionof the IRSPM panelists and a largely practitioneraudience to discuss
and debate the practical issues related to alternative public sector reform frameworks and country case examples.
This issue contains a subset of the papers presented at the conference panel and debatedat the workshop, plus one
additional contribution. All the papers were blind reviewed by external referees. We thank the contributors for their
efforts in drafting their articles, addressing reviewer comments, and preparing their final submissions. We also thank
the external referees for the helpful and timely feedback they provided. We acknowledge financial support from the
George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs and the Fellows Program of RTI International.
Finally, we offerour thanks to Jose Puppim de Oliveira, the editor-in-chief of PublicAdministration and Development,
for his support for this special issue, and to Annette Butler for her efficient management of the PAD review and
editorial process.
Derick W. Brinkerhoff
Distinguished Fellow in International Public Management
RTI International
Washington, DC, USA
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
public administration and development
Public Admin. Dev. 35, 221 (2015)
Published online in Wiley Online Library
(wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/pad.1742
Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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