Their winning paper, titled “Exploring e-maturity in Italian local governments: empirical results from a three-step latent class analysis” (Vol 89 (1): 76-94), was selected through a rigorous assessment process involving our Editor-in-Chief, the five Deputy Editors, and a final vote by the members of the Global Editorial Committee. The paper stood out for its innovative data and fresh perspectives on international public administrations.
IRAS Best Paper | Christopher Pollitt Prize 2023 -
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Public Management Review Special Issue Proposal
5 November 2026
Public administration and management research has long drawn most of its ideas from Western, industrialised democracies. Yet Asia and the Global South have become major sites of administrative change, with large-scale reforms, fast-moving technology and some of the most inventive experiments in governance. Research from these regions has grown accordingly, but it is still often used to illustrate or apply theories made elsewhere, rather than to produce new ones.
This special issue of Public Management Review aims to change that. It invites authors to treat practice in Asia and the Global South as a starting point for theory: to test, question or extend established approaches, and to propose new concepts and explanations. It does not look for a single theory of these regions, which are far too diverse for that, but for context-sensitive contributions that also say something useful for policy and practice.
