Public Administration and Development

PAD wishes its readers a Happy Year of the Horse! #yearofthehorse
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May this year bring strength, momentum, and bold ideas to move forward. 🌟

⌛️PAD is committed to a timely and rigorous review process. Our median time from submission to first decision is 3 days, supporting efficient and constructive scholarly engagement.
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Do submit your manuscripts to us!
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📢It's the International Day of Clean Energy | #UnitedNations to raise awareness and mobilize action for a just and inclusive transition to clean #energy for the benefit of people and the planet. un.org/en/observanc...
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Here are selected works from PAD focusing on energy!

♨️ New article!
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How can governments strengthen capacity to adopt #AI in long-term care?
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Si Ying Tan, Lili Li, & @arazth.bsky.social draw on interviews to find that #SG demonstrates analytical and operational capacity but not individual-level political capacity.
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What is the impact of performance information on citizen satisfaction?
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Xuede Gao & Fei Sun find that while relative performance information influences satisfaction, its effects are fragile in #China.
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🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pad.70023

❓ Can political parties in developing countries act as foreign policy agents?
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Yen Wao introduces the idea of foreign policy capacity of parties. Cases from BRICS show how party dominance matters #China #India #Brazil.
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Anil Gurjar & Anupam Ghosh examine the resource use and outputs across #India to identify performance gaps and high achievers to find that larger states outperform the smaller states.
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🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pad.70018

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What are the factors that increase localization?
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Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre examines four country-based pooled funds to identify types of brokerage models and their effects on localization.
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Why do capacity building projects fall short despite efforts?
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Kablan P. Kacou, Lavagnon A. Ika & Lauchlan T. Munro examine this through content analysis of 73 articles to bridge the rigour-relevance gap.
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🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pad.70020

♨️New article!
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Haibo Tan, Lihua Yang, Ziteng Fan & Yingying Gao trace public service innovation to propose an integrative model for practitioners in strategically allocating resources across innovation stages.
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🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pad.70017

🔊 On Reviewer Appreciation Day 2025, we announced the Best Reviewer Award, along with notable mentions. We are deeply grateful to Frank Ohemeng (Concordia University) for his timely and thoughtful reviews, and we commend him for his outstanding service to PAD.

Thank you! #reviewerappreciationday

📢 On International Reviewer Appreciation Day, PAD thanks our dedicated reviewers!
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🏆 Best Reviewer 2024: Frank L.K. Ohemeng (Concordia University, Canada)
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👏 Special Mentions:
Hanyu Xiao (Hong Kong)

Sisira Kumara (Sri Lanka)

Amy Harris (Univ. of Michigan, USA)

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How do policies work under instability & low compliance
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Jaime Sainz Santamaría examines the Latin America’s Payment for Ecosystem Services to find that data & analysis identify solutions and politics sustains them.
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The #EGPA2025 Conference will be held from 26th to 29th August 2025 at Glasgow, Scotland. The theme is 'EGPA at 50: Prospects for Public Administration across Europe'.
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Do reach out to our co Editor-in-chief @ianelliott.bsky.social to know more about PAD!

Vivian Julian Palmer and Pillay Pregala propose a model for ethical conduct and accountability for public sector in #SouthAfrica for enhanced public service delivery.

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♨️ New article!
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What are the factors explaining declining #corruption in public sector?
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Luis Garrido-Vergara and Ignacio Cienfuegos examine the case of #Chile to find that #economicgrowth is fundamental in building impartiality in administration
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A must read @donmoyn.bsky.social

Political science for global public health

♨️ Latest from @journalpad.bsky.social !

This brief report by Donald Moynihan and Rachael Zuppke describes the death of America's foreign aid agency #USAID, contributing to scholarship to broader debates on political figures and the politics of #development

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♨️ Latest from PAD!

This brief report by @donmoyn.bsky.social and Rachael Zuppke describes the death of America's foreign aid agency #USAID, contributing to scholarship to broader debates on political figures and the politics of #development

A must read!

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♨️ New Article! #PublicProcurement
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Debdatta Saha, Tathagat Singh, Gautam Maheshwari, Kanchan Arora, Kartik, & Kashvi Kapoor examine the government e-Marketplace in #India to find iterative and non-linear change on the platform.
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♨️New commentary!
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In this new publication, Dana-Marie Ramjit explores how PA is being reshaped by technology, social movements, and global citizenship.
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Do leadership and adaptive capacities affect local government performance?
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Emmanuel K. Danso & Robert A. Opoku examine this through survey in #Ghana and use #StructuralEquationModeling to find that they do, via innovation!
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📍 Our Co-Editor-in-Chief @ianelliott.bsky.social recently delivered the keynote on 'Public Administration in a Turbulent World' and represented PAD at the 'Meet the Editors roundtable' in the 2nd International Conference on China Policy Studies (ICCPS) 2025 at Beijing Normal University

📢Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers!

PAD has seen a strong rise :
📊 CiteScore up to 4.0 (from 3.3)
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📈 Ranked 74/242 in Public Administration (up from 86/232)
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🏅 We are now in the 69th percentile — up from 63rd last year!
#PublicAdministration #Development

🌟We are proud to have a diverse editorial board with members from over 15 countries!
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Here are Mary Mangai , our Associate Editor and Naomi Aoki, our editorial board member! Thrilled that PAD continues to foster global connections in PA and #development! 🌍📘

📚 Check out this collection of articles on #education from PAD!
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💡 We spotlight middle- and low-income countries, aiming to advance research on administration and development in sectors like education. #EducationPolicy #GlobalDev

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What is the meaning of regulatory capacity?
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Bruno Queiroz Cunha and @martinlodge.bsky.social examine how to organise regulatory capacity in the context of #Brazil, a country with record regulatory reforms in the past.
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🚨 Attention reviewers! 🚨
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PAD has released its AI Policy for peer review:
🔹 Responsibility lies with the human reviewer—not GenAI tools.
🔹 GenAI can assist with writing clarity, but use must be transparently disclosed.
#GenAIPolicy #PeerReview
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