This article highlights four key reform challenges regarding the quality of public
administration and governance (PAG), aimed at increasing 'SDG-readiness' at all levels of …

Immense uncertainty and the need for drastic interventions cause politicians to rely heavily
on scientific advice for underpinning or legitimating their COVID-19 decision-making. This …

Understandings of different policy learning types have matured over recent decades.
However, relatively little is known about their nonlinear and interactive nature, particularly …

Public sector reforms have been a feature of past decades. Many of these reforms reacted
against hierarchy and bureaucracy to shift to markets and networks. Next to New Public …

This article analyzes the “politics of experts”—or the struggle between scientific advisers to
gain visibility and influence—in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped administrative relations and put
emphasis on the digital transformation of public administration that is urgently needed to …

IMPACT The digital transformation of public administration is expected to fundamentally
reshape the institutional setting of local service delivery, administration, and governance in …

Public administration has witnessed an avalanche of crises spanning financial, economic,
health, environmental and governmental domains in the past two decades. Consequently …

Digital government has been an evolving topic in research and practice, and during the
COVID-19 crisis, different tools emerged as crucial elements in tackling the crisis …

The COVID 19 pandemic continues to cause a lot of uncertainty around the world. At the
onset of the pandemic, governments responded with policies and programs to curb its …