Introduction / by Rosolino A. Candela, Rosemarie Fike, and Roberta Herzberg -- Rise of a centropoly : good intentions, distorted incentives, and the cloaked costs of top-down reform in US public education / by Martha Bradley-Dorsey -- Group identity and unintended consequences of school...

Innovations in Public Governance provides a contextual view of innovations in public governance. Public governance is about coordination and the use of various forms of institutional arrangements in policy-making processes to pursue the common good. In practice the improvements and radical...

This article proposes that two major trends – the failure of political institutions and the globalization of minority rights – present major challenges for public administration. These changes mean that public administrators must now perform roles that were previously the realm of elected...