International Review of Administrative Sciences
Public Policy & Public Administration
International Review of Administrative Sciences (IRAS ) is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to academic and professional public administration. Founded in 1927 it is the oldest scholarly public administration journal specifically focused on comparative and international topics. IRAS seeks to shape the future agenda of public administration around the world by encouraging reflection on international comparisons, new techniques and approaches, the dialogue between academics and practitioners, and debates about the future of the field itself.
IRAS is the official journal of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA). IRAS is published in three different language editions - English, French and Chinese.
"As the global village is evolving understanding the diversity of national perspectives on a growing variety of issues is an essential necessity, not a luxury. The careful selection of topics and articles in the International Review of Administrative Sciences provides a wealth of information for developing such understanding and meeting the needs of practitioners and academics." Arie Halachmi, Institute of Government at Tennessee State University, USA and Zhongshan University, China
"I have been doing research and editing in comparative public administration for the last twenty five years. I have always found the International Review of Administrative Sciences indispensable reading. It provides us with articles containing glimpses of new theoretical thinking, but also with accounts of best practices introduced by governments around the world." Ignacio Pichardo, Former President of IIAS, El Colegio Mexiquense
"International Review of Administrative Sciences offers thought-provoking contributions from both scholars and practitioners on a wide variety of topics related to international and comparative administration. Few journals can match IRAS in presenting timely analysis, dialogue, and debate on administrative issues from the industrialized countries of the global North, both in Europe and the Americas, and from the developing and transitioning nations of the global South." Derick W. Brinkerhoff, RTI Senior Fellow in International Public Management Research Triangle Institute
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International Review of Administrative Sciences is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to academic and professional public administration. Founded in 1927 it is the oldest scholarly public administration journal specifically focused on comparative and international topics. IRAS seeks to shape the future agenda of public administration around the world by encouraging reflection on international comparisons, new techniques and approaches, the dialogue between academics and practitioners, and debates about the future of the field itself.
IRAS is the official journal of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA). IRAS is published in four different language editions – English, French, Spanish and Chinese.
The IIAS exists to advance the study and practice of public administration and public management. It operates at a global level and is funded by states world-wide; but is independent of any of them and, through its links with the United Nations, seeks to develop a voice and vision that is neutral, as objective as possible and grounded in the exigency of the fact. Although it has existed for over seventy years (since 1930), the Institute's focus is on the present and the future. How governance is done and how it could be done better; how the law of administration applies and how it might be applied more correctly; and how the management of public affairs is conducted and how it might be done best - all of these reflect its activities. Accountability is a core value for the institute. Those who exercise authority must account for its use to those on whose behalf they use it. Public Administration is the key activity that connects between the power-holders and the citizen. We believe it should be effective, efficient and economical in its execution of the duties and rights of the state. We support modern governance and proper public administration and believe these should be carried out in a way that actively acknowledges diversity, that is respectful of identity and serious belief and that reflects balance.
| Sabine Kuhlmann | Potsdam University, Germany |
| Gene Brewer | University of Georgia, USA |
| Ricardo Correa Gomes | FGV São Paulo School of Business Administration, Brazil |
| Shamsul Haque | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Sara Melo | Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Martial Pasquier | Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Tobias Polzer | WU Wien, Austria |
| Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar | Universidad de Granada, Spain |
| Frederico Ganz | Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany |
| Naomi Adiv | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Martial Fanga Agbor | University of Religions and Denominations, Iran |
| Ricardo Bello-Gomez | Rutgers University–Newark, Colombia |
| Céline du Boys | Aix-Marseille Université, France |
| Noam Brenner | Minerva Stiftung, Germany |
| Ylva Noren Bretzer | University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
| David Carassus | University of Pau, France |
| Christopher A. Cooper | University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Tie Cui | University of Edinburgh Business School, UK |
| Marco De la Cruz | Public Governance Institute – KU Leuven, Belgium |
| Mehmet Akif Demircioglu | Carleton University, Canada |
| Christoph Demmke | University of Vaasa, Finland |
| Patrick Diamond | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Matthias Döring | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Mauricio Ivan Dussauge-Laguna | FLASCO, Mexico |
| Patrice A. Dutil | Ryerson University, Canada |
| Giovanni Esposito | Centre for the Study of Public Policies & Admin (CEPAP), ULB, Belgium |
| Isabelle Fortier | ENAP, Canada |
| Diego Galego | Rutgers University, USA |
| Sharon Gilad | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Alexandre Gomide | Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brazil |
| J. Ignacio Criado Grande | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
| Marcel Guenoun | Université Aix Marseille, France |
| Gyorgy Hajnal | Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary |
| Are Vegard Haug | Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway |
| Eva Marin Hlynsdottir | University of Iceland, Iceland |
| Diana-Camelia Iancu | National Univ of Political Studies & Public Admin, Romania |
| Tobin Im | Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Yijia Jing | Fudan University, China |
| Åge Johnsen | Public Policy, Dept of Public Management, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway |
| Desislava Kalcheva | Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria |
| Erkki Karo | Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia |
| Masao Kikuchi | Meiji University, Japan |
| Tanja Klenk | Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Germany |
| Ivan Kopric | Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia |
| Praveen Kumar | Central University of South Bihar, India |
| Yoshiko Kuni | Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan |
| Martin Laffin | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Wai-Fung Lam | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| Elke Loeffler | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Gabriela Lotta | Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil |
| Vincent Mabillard | Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium |
| Elize Massard | Sao Paulo School of Business Administration, Brazil |
| Andrew Massey | Kings College London |
| Albert Meijer | Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Ines Mergel | University of Konstanz, Germany |
| M. Jae Moon | Yonsei University, South Korea |
| Bogdana Neamtu | Babe?-Bolyai University, Romania |
| Juraj Nemec | Department of Public Economics, Masaryk University, Czechia |
| Oliver Neumann | Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Sue Newberry | University of Sydney,Australia |
| SoonAe Park | Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Pietro Pavone | Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples, Italy |
| François Pichault | University of Liège, Belgium |
| Isabella Proeller | University of Potsdam, Germany |
| Rafael Martinez Puon | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico |
| Pierre-Charles Pupion | Université de Poitiers, France |
| Daniel Rauhut | Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| Adrian Ritz | University of Berne, Switzerland |
| Seriye Sezen | Ankara University, Turkey |
| Hiroko Shimada | Kyoto University, Japan |
| Carine Smolders | Department of Public Governance and Management, Ghent University, Belgium |
| Ed Stazyk | University at Albany, USA |
| Xuhong Su | University of South Carolina, USA |
| Markku Suksi | Åbo Akademi University, Finland |
| Tao Sun | Nankai University, China |
| Evrim Tan | KU Leuven, Belgium |
| O. Tserenchimed | National Academy of Governance of Mongolia, Mongolia |
| Emil Turc | IMPGT Aix-Marseille University, France |
| Jiro Uno | Hokkaido University, Japan |
| Sandra Van Thiel | Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Frédéric Varone | University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| Sylvia Veit | Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Germany |
| Diana Vicher | Public Management Dept, Guanajuato University, Mexico |
| Jean-Patrick Villeneuve | Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| Ellen Wayenberg | Ghent University, Belgium |
| Dominika Wojtowicz | Kozminski University, Poland |
| Wilson Wong | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
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