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Just out and Open Access in Regulation & Governance - "“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting" by Andrea Migone, David Chen, Bryan Evans, Alex Howlett, & Michael Howlett

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Now out in Issue - "Governance of dependency relationships in mandated networks" Dayashankar Maurya, M Ramesh & Michael Howlett in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 47(1): 5-27

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Now out in issue - Andrea Migone and Michael Howlett. “A Theory of Policy Advisory System Quality: Hirschman 2.0 or What Makes for Good Policy Advice?” Policy & Politics 53, no. 1 (January 1, 2025): 44–64.

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The winners of the Lasswell Prize for best article in Policy Sciences in 2024 are Andrea Pettrachin & Leila Hadj Abdou for "Beyond Evidence-Based Policymaking? Exploring Knowledge Formation and Source Effects in US Migration Policymaking".

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Now out in Issue and OA - "The Problems of Public Procurement in Canada: Rule Layering, Strategic Purchasing, and Risk Aversion as a Toxic Stew" -Michael Howlett & Andrea Migone in Canadian Public Administration/Administration Publique du Canada 67(4): 517-532 Dec. 2024

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Now out in issue and open access - "The purpose of policy portfolios: design, intention, and logic" by Andrea Migone & Michael Howlett Dec 2024 Journal of Public Policy , 44(4): 809-825 https://buff.ly/4aeEyQI.

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Now out in issue and Open Access: "The Pigeons Coming Home to Roost: The Continuing Perils of Contracting Out in Canada" by Andrea Migone & Michael Howlett https://buff.ly/4j8mjQM Canadian Public Administration 67 (4): 533-547 Dec 2024

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Just out! Special Issue on Consultants in Public Money & Management. 14 Articles on a wide variety of topics related to Policy & Management Consulting in differents sectors and issue areas. eds. Matti Ylönen, Ringa Raudla, Hanna Kuusela

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Christopher Hood has died today. Public administration has lost one of its absolute best. RIP

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Out in Canadian Public Administration special issue on public sector reform in Canada - "Moving Ottawa's Department and Agency Reporting Forward: Encouraging Accountability and Sustaining Reform" by Evert A. Lindquist

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Out as part of Canadian Public Administration special issue on public sector reform in Canada - A “Overdue and Overdrawn: Internal Services, Administrative Debt, and the Government of Canada's Real Property File" by Jacky Tweedie, Randall Legault, Philippe Thompson https://buff.ly/4gyCkxX

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Out as part of Canadian Public Administration special issue on public sector reform in Canada - A “Renewed Conversation” about Ethical Management in Canada's Public Service: Where Should We Be Headed? by Amélie Armstrong, Ian Stedman

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Out as part of a special issue of Canadian Public Administration on Public Sector Reform in Canada - "State Capacity and Administrative Burdens on Citizens: Time for Export Controls and Transparency" by Jennifer Robson

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Out as part of special issue of Canadian Public Administration on Public Sector Reform in Canada - "Improving Interactions: Public Sector Reform and Parliamentary Committees" by John L. Nater and Kathy L. Brock

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Out as part of special issue of Canadian Public Administration on Public Sector Reform in Canada - "Institutionalizing Spending and Strategic Reviews: Supporting Effective Public Management" by Robert P. Shepherd and Evert A. Lindquist

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HKUST is the very first university in Hong Kong to provide protected ChatGPT services to faculty and students, and probably among the first in the world. How do we assess this groundbreaking experiment in higher education? See our survey study of students. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Just out as part of special issue of Canadian Public Policy on Public Sector Reform in Canada-"The Problems of Public Procurement in Canada: Rule Layering, Strategic Purchasing, and Risk Aversion as a Toxic Stew " by Michael Howlett & Andrea Migone @howlettm @Andrea_Migone https://buff.ly/4fCGyTC

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Just out as part of special issue of Canadian Public Policy on Public Sector Reform in Canada - "The Pigeons Coming Home to Roost: The Continuing Perils of Contracting Out in Canada" by Andrea Migone & Michael Howlett

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Contribution to the December special issue of Canadian Public Administration on public sector reform: "From “Listening” to Collaborative Policymaking: Encouraging Government Engagement with Civil Society" by Mary Francoli

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Contribution to the December special issue of Canadian Public Administration on public sector reform: "RInstitutionalizing Spending and Strategic Reviews: Supporting Effective Public Management by Robert P. Shepherd and Evert A. Lindquist

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Editor's Introduction to December special issue of Canadian Public Administration on public sector reform: "Re-setting the Public Service of Canada" by Evert Lindquist

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The most famous artwork in Utah, Robert Smithson's Land Art masterpiece Spiral Jetty, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. A Utah State University graduate student got the process started.

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Out as part of special issue of Canadian Public Administration on Public Sector Reform in Canada - Dec 2024 & Open Access: "Rudderless in the Storm? The Crisis of Adaptability in Canadian Governance by Alasdair Robert

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Part of a special issue of Canadian Public Administration on Public Sector Reform in Canada - December 2024 & Open Access - "Strengthening Morale and Motivation in the Public Service in Turbulent Times" by Karine Levasseur, Andrea Rounce, Wiesława Dominika Wranik https://buff.ly/4gMysco

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Part of a special issue of Canadian Public Administration on Public Sector Reform in Canada - December 2024 & Open Access - "Information Governance: Paving the Way to Digital Institutions and Organizations" by Daniel J. Caron https://buff.ly/3P9nAcO

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Part of a special issue of Canadian Public Administration on Public Sector Reform in Canada - December 2024 & Open Access - "The Transformative Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Public Sector Reform" by Justin Longo

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Part of the December special issue of Canadian Public Administration on adminitsrative reform in Canada: "From Machinery to Executive Density: Time for Structural Reforms?" by Michael Wernick onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Now out in issue & Open Access - "Words not deeds: the weak culture of evidence in the Canadian policy style " by Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett, Alexander Howlett Policy and Society, 43(4) 2024, Pages 479–493

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New issue of Indian Politics & Policy -- open access www.ippjournal.org/volume-4-num...

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Much thanks to @pubpolicychina.bsky.social for a thoughtful read of our volume! 🏛️🗺️ 🌐

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Just out in Canadian Public Administration First paper in large December special issue on PA Reform in Canada: "Access to Information and Privacy: Practical Approaches for Public Service Reform" by Pierre R. Desrochers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Out and Open Access - Cambridge Elements in Public Policy "Symbolic Policy" by Laurie Boussaguet and Florence Faucher

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Leiden University is looking to hire an Assistant Professor of Public Policy, with a focus on digital governance www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

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Starting a new (free) substack today with Bob Bauer, called "Executive Functions." We're covering executive power issues in detail. Welcome here: executivefunctions.substack.com/p/welcome-to... Please subscribe here: executivefunctions.substack.com/subscribe First substantive piece tomorrow.

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-9C with a -18C wind chill--a perfect day to go fat biking.

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Recent Article in Journal of Public Policy - "The purpose of policy portfolios: design, intention, and logic" by Andrea Migone and Michael Howlett

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Public health research for political science: #lobbying, business-government relations:

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Recent Book - Designing Public Policies 3rd Edition (Routledge) by Michael Howlett (2024) www.amazon.ca/Designing-Pu... m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91k...

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Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Recent Research Article in PAR: Evaluating use of evidence in U.S. state governments: A conjoint analysis by Chengxin Xu, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Shuping Wang, Weston Merrick, Patrick Carter: buff.ly/48Uj0Id

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Special Issue on Lobbying Regulation and Reform (Part 1) in Interest Groups and Advocacy. Papers by Schiffers & Plümer, Kavanagh, Bauer, Ammann, Holyoke, Nastase, Straus, and Crepaz. Part 2 of the Special Issue will be published in early 2025 link.springer.com/journal/4130...

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Cambridge Element in Public Policy volume now out & Open Access "Public Contracting for Social Outcomes" by Clare Fitzgerald & Ruairi Macdonald - bit.ly/3ZF0eAt

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Out Soon! The Routledge International Handbook of Public Administration and Digital Governance - Edited By Sarah Giest, Ian Roberge

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New Cambridge Element of Public Policy - "Policy Entrepreneurs, Crises, and Policy Change" by Evangelia Petridou, Jörgen Sparf, Nikolaos Zahariadis and Thomas Birkland. Open Access at cup.org/4iLSxkX

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Deadline to register for Workshop on Policy Process Research in Luleå is December 18. Sign up!

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New timeline, same problems, same solution

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Big Data & Society @BigDataSoc Dec 11 We are looking for Assistant Editors (AE) for BD&S. More details at buff.ly/3ZNwRNx and you can submit your interest at buff.ly/4fbtOmT Deadline is January 10, 2025. For questions contact the Editor-in-Chief , Dr. Matthew Zook ([email protected]).

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A recent article by Maurya, Ramesh, & Howlett deals with dependency relationships and resulting opportunism within mandated service delivery networks in #India buff.ly/4iuRtlh

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And the new era begins. My Substack is alive again, and here's my first post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...

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It is wild how contemporary these 1890s academic freedom cases seem.

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