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Professor Duncan McTavish: In memoriam

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AuthorKaren Johnston,Robert Pyper
DOI10.1177/0144739419825992
Published date01 March 2019
Date01 March 2019
Subject MatterObituary
TPA825992 121..123
Obituary
Teaching Public Administration
Professor Duncan
2019, Vol. 37(1) 121–123
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McTavish: In memoriam
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Karen Johnston
Editor of Public Policy and Administration (2007–2014)
Department of Organisational Studies, University of
Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Robert Pyper
Editor of Public Policy and Administration (2000-2007)
School of Media, Culture and Society, The University of the West of Scotland, Glasgow, UK
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of our friend and colleague Professor
Duncan McTavish. Duncan was a former editor of Public Policy and Administration and
served on several journal editorial boards, including Teaching Public Administration.
An outstanding researcher and scholar, with extensive publications in the fields of
public administration, public policy and politics, Duncan’s work is an invaluable
resource for students and practitioners and has advanced our understanding of policy
processes. His research extended across a wide range of themes and issues, including the
impact of neo-liberal public sector reforms, multi-level governance, good governance,
accountability of the public sector, inequalities in public admin- istration, and British
politics and policy. His first book, Business and Management in the UK 1900–2003, a
fusion of economic and political history, and business and public administration, drew
upon his doctoral research to provide an important analysis of the dynamic between
managerial issues in the UK business and public sectors. Duncan’s final book, Themes
and Flux in British Politics, is a tour de force of British politics with commentary on
salient issues confronting contemporary society such as nationalism and differentiated
political loyalties. His holistic per- spective of the political and public policy landscape
provides a richer understand- ing of the complexities and challenges of...

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