In memoriam of Christopher Pollitt*
| DOI | 10.1177/0952076718802048 |
| Author | Andrew Massey,Geert Bouckaert |
| Published date | 01 October 2018 |
| Date | 01 October 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Obituary |
Public Policy and Administration
2018, Vol. 33(4) 466–468
In memoriam of
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Geert Bouckaert
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Andrew Massey
University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
It is with sadness that we learned of the death of our friend and colleague,
Professor Christopher Pollitt. Christopher was a former Editor in Chief of the
International Review of Administrative Sciences, an exceptional global scholar
who researched and published with distinction in the field of public administration.
He was an outstanding scholar of his generation and there are few learned papers
or books in his fields that do not contain references to his inspired and analytically
precise work. He contributed to the discipline in the areas of global comparisons,
analyses of public sector reforms, the evaluation of public service policies, pro-
grammes and projects. He published extensively in these areas with a voluminous
number of books, journal articles, book chapters and edited publications. For
example, his book on Public Management Reform (2000) has been translated
into several languages.
Christopher held a number of academic positions in prestigious institutions
before retiring as Professor at the Public Management Institute, KU Leuven and
Scientific Director at the Netherlands Institute of Government. During a career
that spanned nearly four decades, he was the recipient of awards such as the Hans
Sigrist International Prize and research grant awards from the European
Commission framework programmes and the UK Economic Social Science
Research Council.
Christopher began his professional career as a civil servant, one of the bright
young people selected to enter the UK ‘Fast Stream’, a gilded cohort that was
inculcated into the culture and practice of Northcote Trevelyan in those pre-
Fulton, pre-New Public Management days. He was...
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