Hi Nilima, and fellow list members - thanks for this great initiative. A question which others may share - its ok to submit an abstract/paper for the conference, but not for the special issue of PAD, right - some may have work in progress committed or intended for other places ?
Bill
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Subject: Call for Papers: What Future for Development Management?
The following call for papers may interest many of you.
With best wishes,
Nilima
WHAT FUTURE FOR DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT?
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT (PAD) 60th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
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DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ASSOCATION (DSA) ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Call for Papers
What has development management achieved and what are its prospects? Development-related programmes and activities under the rubrics of capacity development, institution building and public management reform remain both significant and contested. Recent discussions have called for greater study of development management's potential contribution to global problems like poverty and inequality, climate change, ill-health and terrorism. This provides evidence of continuing interest in the scope, possibilities and limitations of development management.
A number of trends and challenges make PAD's 60th Anniversary year a good time for appraising development management's future. These include:
* interest in the political contexts for development management, reflected in donor initiatives such as the World Banks' Institutional and Governance Reviews and DFID's 'Drivers of Change' studies
* the institutional frameworks within which development management takes place
* the relationship between the study of public sectors in the developing world and American public administration and management
* major development policy statements, notably the Millennium Development Goals and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, whose implications for development management have not yet been fully explored
* the critical view of development management as anti-political, elitist and hostile to emancipatory and indigenous forms of development
* the prominence of new civil society actors and the private sector, including in the provision of public services
* the rise of the governance model
* the international financial crisis of late 2008, particularly for the role of government as facilitator, regulator and provider of development;
Given these trends, the time would seem ripe to reflect on and examine the future of development management. Do we need new models that match new conditions, possibly ones that are more in harmony with the evolving development agenda and underlying political and institutional frameworks? Has the time come to discard exhausted approaches that stand in the way of progress? Or is the problem even more fundamental?
We welcome both theoretical and empirical responses to these and other questions from scholars and practitioners alike. Contributions can be in one of three ways:
1. By submitting a conference paper proposal (not to exceed 1000 words) by May 1, 2009. Accepted conference papers will be considered for a special issue of Public Administration and Development (PAD) so long as full papers are received by July 31, 2009.
2. By submitting a full paper directly for consideration for the PAD Special Issue by July 31, 2009.
Proposals and papers should be sent to both joint editors and should conform to PAD's 'instructions for authors' located at:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/2821/home/ForAuthors.html <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/2821/home/ForAuthors.html> .
We aim to build on recent statements regarding development management and, to this effect, contributors may find it useful to refer to some of the following publications.
Batley, R. 2006. "Guest editor's preface. Symposium on non-state provision of basic services." Public Administration and Development 26 (3):193-196.
Brinkerhoff, D. W. 2008. "The State and International Development Management: Shifting Tides, Changing Boundaries, and Future Directions." Public Administration Review 68 (6):985-1001.
Brinkerhoff, D. W., and J. M. Brinkerhoff. 2002. "Government-Nonprofit Relations in Comparative Perspective (Special Issue)", Public Administration and Development 22 (1): 3-18.
Brinkerhoff, D. W., and J. M. Coston. 1999. "International Development Management in a Globalized World." Public Administration Review 59 (4):346-361.
Collins, P. (2000) "The Last Fifty Years and the Next Fifty Years." P. Collins (Ed), Applying Public Administration in Development: Guideposts to the Future, John Wiley: New York.
Cooke, B., and S. Dar, eds. 2008. The New Development Management: Critiquing the Dual Modernization. London: Zed Books.
Hubbard, M. 2005. "Guest editor's preface: aid management: beyond the new orthodoxy." Public Administration and Development 25 (5):365-371.
Thomas, Alan. 1996. "What is Development Management?" Journal of International Development 8 (1):95-110.
Thomas, Alan. 2007. "Policy Arena: Development Management--Values and Partnerships." Journal of International Development 19(3): 383-388.
McCourt, W. 2008. "Public Management in Developing Countries." Public Management Review 10 (4):467-479.
Please contact either of the joint editors (who are also the co-convenors of the DSA's Development Management sub-group, which welcomes new members) with any queries. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Nilima Gulrajani
DESTIN, London School of Economics
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Willy McCourt
IDPM, University of Manchester
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