The Politics and Management of Policing (Debate Articles)
Deadline 2026-09-30Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2ABDC A
Journal: Public Money & Management
June 2026: please note this issue is still open for Debate Articles Only. This issue is still open for debate articles. PMM’s debate articles (up to 1,000 words), offering distinctive, provocative and considered comments and arguments—perhaps from the world of practice. These are subject to review by the guest editors. The audience for readers of this themed issue is an interdisciplinary and broadly-defined communit…
Cultural organizations in transition—rethinking management, governance, and organizational change
Deadline 2026-10-12Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2ABDC A
Journal: Public Money & Management
Cultural organizations, ranging from museums and heritage sites to festivals, theatres and media production houses, represent a vital component of the public sphere. Regardless of their ownership, legal status, and business model, many of these organizations pursue public missions: they produce, distribute, and safeguard cultural value, make accessible collective cultural resources, support participation and express…
Gender diversity in the public sector: reforms, challenges, and emerging opportunities
Deadline 2026-11-30Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2ABDC A
Journal: Public Money & Management
The presence and representation of women in key strategic roles have emerged as critical factors in strengthening governance and enhancing public service outcomes. While gender diversity has attracted scholarly and policy attention in the private sector, its role in public administration, public service organizations, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remains comparatively underexplored—despite its central importan…
Creating value for citizens in public service ecosystems
Deadline 2026-12-01Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2ABDC A
Journal: Public Money & Management
This PMM theme issue will examine how public services can contribute to value creation for citizens within public service ecosystems (PSEs), considering implications for public administration and management theory and/or practice. To better understand how social, ecological and economic value for citizens could be fostered in the context of public services, researchers have for the past decade addressed how the syst…
Rapid Response Rolling Dialogue Submissions: Public Administration in the Second Trump Administration
Deadline 2026-12-31Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 1ABDC B
Journal: Administrative Theory & Praxis
Since its inception as Dialog in 1978—founded as a forum to question dominant paradigms and expand the boundaries of public administration thought—Administrative Theory & Praxis (ATP) has provided a platform for critical and heterodox perspectives, especially in times of political upheaval. The journal’s early issues, circulated as “stapled sheets of yellow paper,” reflected a bold commitment to engaging with questi…
Reimagining Public Administration Praxis: Queer[ing] Theoretical and Empirical Approaches
Deadline 2027-01-01Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 1ABDC B
Journal: Administrative Theory & Praxis
Introduction Queer theory emerged in the early 1990s as a critical framework that challenges heteronormative assumptions and interrogates the social construction of gender and sexual identities (de Lauretis, 1991; Sedgwick, 1990; Butler, 1990). Rather than defending particular identities, queer theory works to expose and destabilize binary categories, revealing how power structures produce and maintain normative und…
Coping with tensions, challenges and limitations of boundary spanning work in collaborative governance and public service delivery in turbulent times
Deadline 2027-01-15Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 4ABDC A
Journal: Public Management Review
Public governance practice today is increasingly confronted with complex, turbulent, and societal challenges that cross organizational, scalar, sectoral, and community boundaries. Wicked problems such as sustainability transitions, social inequality, rapid digitalization and democratic backsliding demand collaboration between public, private, and societal actors (O’Flynn et al., 2014; Torfing et al., 2012; Klijn et…
Beyond the Westminster model: a myth that needs constant refreshing?
Deadline 2027-01-31Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2ABDC A
Journal: Public Money & Management
Ministers and civil servants operate within formally shared constitutional arrangements but increasingly divergent professional cultures. Ministers are drawn from, and remain accountable to, a political environment defined by electoral cycles, media scrutiny, and their parties. Civil servants, by contrast, are shaped by institutional norms of political impartiality and long-term organizational continuity. Where thos…
Public Money & Management (PMM) Theme: Populism and Public Management
Deadline 2027-01-31Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2ABDC A
Journal: Public Money & Management
For this theme issue we are looking for disciplinary eclecticism. We seek contributions that bring together insights from several disciplines, including law, social sciences, public management and the study of politics. Traditionally public management has not engaged in ‘constitutional’ conversations. However, the rise of what has been identified within the political landscape as ‘populism’ calls for a cross-discipl…
The Governance of Football: Policy, Politics and Possibilities
Deadline 2027-04-01Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2ABDC B
Journal: Policy Studies
Football (‘soccer’) is the world’s largest sport. World cups mark major international mega events, which can trigger economic development, and have wider cultural and political consequences. The size of the global industry has exceeded €38 billion in Europe alone. Around the world, over 200 national associations, 130,000 professional players, and 4,000 professional teams. At the everyday level, there are an estimate…
Place-Based Strategy Design for Value Creation
Deadline 2027-04-30Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 4ABDC A
Journal: Public Management Review
Introduction and Rationale Governments today face increasingly complex challenges in public service delivery, including social inequality, climate change, public health crises, and rapid digital transformation. Traditional models of public management often fall short in addressing wicked problems due to their standardized and inflexible nature. A linear and static approach remains widespread in strategic planning ac…
From emergency response to inclusive resilient governance in an era of crises
Deadline 2027-05-01Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2ABDC A
Journal: Public Money & Management
Background and rationale Increasingly, disasters, emergencies and crises have become defining challenges for contemporary public management scholarship. Global security threats, floods, wildfires, terrorist attacks and pandemics require a swift response from the authorities and emergency services. This involves continuous translation, boundary spanning and brokerage across professional, organizational, and jurisdict…
The politics of regulatory simplification in the European Union: actors, processes and outcomes
Deadline 2027-06-01Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 3ABDC A
Journal: Journal of European Public Policy
Over the past decades, the European Union (EU) has experienced substantial regulatory expansion. A growing literature has analysed its drivers, institutional foundations, and consequences (e.g. Radaelli 2007; Hurka et al. 2022; Loxbo & Pircher 2025; Brandsma et al. 2025; Steinebach et al. 2025). Yet, a striking feature of EU governance remains underexplored: regulatory expansion has consistently coexisted with repea…
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