Editorial · 01Jonathan Reeves, Grace Adebayo
Published 2026
Evidence about what may work is indispensable to public policy, but evidence does not implement itself. Public programmes are translated into practice through organizations, budgets, administrative routines, intergovernmental relationships, frontline…
Keywords: policy implementation; public management; evidence-informed policy; administrative capacity; street-level bureaucracy; implementation evaluation
Editorial · 02Jonathan Reeves, Grace Adebayo
Published 2026
Public institutions are increasingly required to maintain essential services through health emergencies, economic shocks, environmental hazards, infrastructure failures, migration pressures, technological disruption, and fiscal stress. Resilience, ho…
Keywords: institutional resilience; crisis governance; public administration; accountability; adaptive governance; organizational learning; state capacity
Editorial · 03Michael Tan, Amara Ncube
Published 2026
Digital platforms, cloud services, automation, analytics, electronic records, and artificial intelligence are becoming embedded in public administration. Yet acquisition of new technology does not by itself constitute digital transformation. This edi…
Keywords: digital government; artificial intelligence; public administration; organizational transformation; algorithmic accountability; public services; digital capability
Editorial · 04Michael Tan, Amara Ncube
Published 2026
Policy evaluation is central to accountable public management, but an average treatment effect is rarely sufficient for governing complex programmes. Decision makers need to know how an intervention produced outcomes, for whom, under which institutio…
Keywords: policy evaluation; causal inference; adaptive governance; programme evaluation; administrative data; mixed methods; evidence-informed policy
