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A one-stop service centre cut processing times by forty per cent. The paper recommends the model. It does not mention that the agency had a single unified case system, a director who stayed six years, statutory authority to waive three of the checks, and a budget line that did not depend on annual bids — and without those, the model is a diagram.

We edit what public administration researchers and practitioners write — case studies of reform and implementation, governance and institutional analyses, performance measurement and evaluation, public management studies, comparative administration work, policy implementation research, reports for governments and agencies, and theses, articles and funding applications. Our editors work on institutional context and whether a finding can travel.

Public administration research is about what works in a particular administrative setting, and the failure is a reform reported as a model without the conditions that made it work. Practices do not transfer; practices plus conditions sometimes do. We work through these so the institutional setting is described with the features that bore on the outcome — legal authority, funding stability, staffing and turnover, information systems, and the relationship between the agency and its political principals; so the conditions are separated into those the reform required and those that merely happened to be present, since a reader deciding whether to adopt this needs the first list; so implementation is described as a sequence with what went wrong, because the difficulties are the transferable knowledge and the smooth account is the one nobody can use; so the counterfactual administrative arrangement is described as it actually operated; so performance measures are reported with what they incentivised and any gaming observed, given that measured improvement and real improvement diverge in familiar ways; so the durability of the change is addressed beyond the evaluation window; and so the paper states which features would have to hold elsewhere for the result to reproduce. Studies written this way get used by administrators rather than only cited.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including unpublished evaluations, internal documents and reports before publication. We are editors rather than public administration scholars or officials, and we offer no view on reforms, performance or policy. What we can do is make the conditions behind the result explicit.