Public Policy and Administration (PPA)

Public Policy and Administration (PPA) is a peer reviewed journal jointly owned by the UK Association for Public Administration (UKAPA) and SAGE publications.  PPA aims to publish original peer-reviewed material within the broad field of public policy and administration.

Editorial team
 Dr Francesca Calò, (The Open University, UK):  francesca.calo@open.ac.uk
 Dr Alice Moseley, (University of Exeter, UK): A.Moseley@exeter.ac.uk
 Professor Edoardo Ongaro, (The Open University, UK):  edoardo.ongaro@open.ac.uk
 Dr Benedetta Trivellato, (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy): benedetta.trivellato@unimib.it 

Latest articles

• Swedish municipalities’ local governance strategies in co-creating health promoting conditions for senior adults
  April 14, 2025 by Anna Williamsson388792RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Goteborg, Sweden,
• Eastern and western philosophies: Rethinking the foundations of public administration
  April 2, 2025 by Edoardo Ongaro5488Department of Public Leadership and Social Enterprise, Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK,
• From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends
  April 1, 2025 by Tessa WrightSchool of Business and Management, 4617Queen Mary University of London, London, UK,
• Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities
  March 21, 2025 by Shane Ryan53025City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
• Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation
  February 27, 2025 by Kate BroadhurstLoughborough Business School, 5156Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK,
• The ideational bases of public value co-creation and the philosophy of personalism: Why a relational conception of person matters for solving public problems
  February 5, 2025 by Edoardo Ongaro5488Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK,
• Bridging the theory-practice divide in public administration: A virtuous pragmatic approach of Wang Yangming and William James
  January 23, 2025 by Yifeng Ni, Ning LiuDepartment of Public and International Affairs, 53025City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• The perceived identity of policy participants: The agenda-building process of universal basic income in South Korea
  January 22, 2025 by Sunggeun KimGraduate School of Governance, 35017Sungkyunkwan University, Jongno-gu, Republic of Korea,
• Scales of governance, polycentricity and the case of active travel infrastructure in West London
  December 17, 2024 by Dan Greenwood, Jan Gerhards, Rachel Aldred, Minerva FadelUniversity of Westminster, London, UK
• Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction
  December 5, 2024 by Sarah Adele WarnerSchool of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, AustraliaSchool of Justice, Queensland Univerity of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Qld, Australia
• Linking representations and policy adoption: The effect of bureaucratic and political representations on policy outcomes
  November 15, 2024 by Sanghee ParkPaul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 10668Indiana University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA,
• Street-level bureaucrats’ attitudes towards clients in discretionary decision-making: Evidence from the Norwegian labour and welfare administration
  November 14, 2024 by Andreea Ioana AlecuConsumption Research Norway, 427615Oslo Metropolitan University Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, Oslo, Norway,