Research in the field of public administration has changed and advanced significantly in
recent years. These advancements concern both how we engage in research—such as the …

Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary
ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function. This book …

Recognising the growing interconnectivity of academic publishing with larger socio‐political
shifts, this article charts the increasing momentum behind the push for greater epistemic …

This essay explores whether religion has a place in addressing public challenges,
particularly in the context of Non-Western Public Administration paradigms such as …

The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring
new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of …

Debates over evidence‐informed policymaking are predominantly structured from a western
paradigm of ontology and epistemology. Other ways of being and knowing are neither …

In this chapter we propose an evolutionary analytical approach to policy capacity with a
specific focus on policy domains where uncertainty and need for policy innovations, or …

If there are different paradigms of public administration (PA), then there is not one global
best PA, but what we refer to as “global” PA is actually Western PA. The other side of the …

The dominant narrative has traditionally framed the Global North as the source of effective
political and economic development, with knowledge and expertise flowing unidirectionally …

In this paper, I use the Quechan indigenous concept of sumak kawsay and its effects on the
politics and policy of the South American nation of Ecuador to aid public administration in its …