Special issues

Special issue information

Public Money & Management (PMM) themes

PMM publishes its popular themes up to four times a year. Themes (which may very occasionally take up a whole issue) are collections of papers and articles around a topical issue that are of interest across the public sector and where there are lessons to be learned easily from research. Themes have guest editors who are internationally well-known specialists in that field.

Themes to date from 2009:

Vol. 40, No. 8, November 2020
Developing civil servants
Guest editor: Lord Michael Bichard

Vol. 40, No. 7, October 2020
Governmental accounting and public financial management reforms in Latin America
Guest editors: Mauricio Gómez Villegas and Andreas Bergmann

Vol. 40, No. 6, September 2020
Equality in an uncertain public sector
Guest editor: Sarah Cooper

Vol. 40, No. 5, July 2020
Fraud and financial crime in the public sector
Guest editors: Alan Doig and Michael Levi

Vol. 40, No. 4, May 2020
Strategic planning that works - evidence from the European public sector
Guest editors: Bert George, Anne Drumaux, Paul Joyce and Francesco Longo

Vol. 40, No. 3, March 2020
Futures in social investment? Learning from the emerging policy and practice of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs)
Guest editors: Rob Wilson, Alec Fraser, Jonathan Kimmitt, Stefanie Tan, Neil McHugh, Toby Lowe, Mildred Warner, Susan Baines and Elanor Carter

Vol. 39, No. 6, September 2019
Innovations in public sector financial and management accounting—for better or worse?
Guest editors: Eugenio Caperchione, Sandra Cohen, Francesca Manes Rossi and Isabel Brusca

Vol. 39, No. 5, July 2019
Information sharing—easy to say, but harder to do well
Guest editors: Rob Wilson, James Cornford, Sue Richardson, Sue Baines, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Stephen Curtis and Nicola Underdown

Vol. 39, No. 4, May 2019
Co-production of public services and outcomes
Guest editors: Tony Bovaird, Sophie Flemig, Elke Loeffler and Stephen P. Osborne

Vol. 38, No. 6, September 2018

Managing and financing China's inter-governmental relations

Guest editors: James L. Chan and Xiaohu Wang

Vol. 38, No. 5, July 2018
Managing and accounting for sustainable development across generations
Guest editors: Suzana Grubnic, Ian Thomson and Georgios Georgakopolous

Vol. 38, No. 1, January 2018
The development of ‘Lean’ (and associated techniques) in public,
third and voluntary services
Guest editors: Nicola Bateman, Zoe Radnor and Russ Glennon

Vol. 37, No. 6, September 2017
Performance measurement of hybrid organizations—emerging issues and future research perspectives
Guest editors: Giuseppe Grossi, Christoph Reichard, Anna Thomasson and Jarmo Vakkuri

Vol. 37, No. 5, July 2017
Public sector reforms and workplace ill-treatment

Guest editors: Duncan Lewis, Tim Bentley and Stephen T. T. Teo

Vol. 37, No. 3, April 2017
The charity sector in a changing world
Guest editor: Noel Hyndman

Vol. 37, No. 2, February 2017
Redrawing the boundaries of the third sector and civil society in troubled times
Guest editors: John Fenwick and Jane Gibbon

Vol. 36, No. 7, November 2016
Researching politicians’ use of accounting information—obstacles and opportunities
Guest editors: Jan van Helden, Daniela Argento, Eugenio Caperchione and Josette Caruana

Vol. 36, No. 3, April 2016
Public sector accounting internationally
Guest editors: Sheila Ellwood, Ian Ball and Ian Carruthers

Vol. 36, No. 1, January 2016
A collaborative public service—what are the management and organizational challenges of more joined-up government?
Guest editors: Rob Wilson, Paul Jackson and Martin Ferguson

Vol. 35, No. 5, September 2015
Public service motivation in an international context—taking it one step further
Guest editors: Wouter Vandenabeele and Chris Skelcher

Vol. 35, No. 2, March 2015
Public procurement policy and practice—international lessons and debates
Guest editor: J. Gordon Murray

Vol. 35, No. 1, January 2015
Complex government
Guest editor: Duncan McTavish

Vol. 34, No. 6, November 2014
Managing public sector healthcare professionals
Guest editor: Yvonne Brunetto

Vol. 34, No. 5, September 2014
Directly-elected mayors—international perspectives on practice
Guest editors: John Fenwick and Andrew Massey

Vol. 34, No. 2, March 2014
Financial sustainability and cutback management: global issues for public organizations
Guest editors: Giuseppe Grossi and Denita Cepiku

Vol. 33, No. 5, September 2013
The future of Britain’s privatized railway system
Guest editor: Robert Jupe

Vol. 33, No. 4, July 2013
Public services benchmarking and external performance assessment: an international perspective
Guest editors: Clive Grace and Alan Fenna

Vol. 33, No. 3, May 2013
Information for local governance: learning lessons, current challenges and future opportunities
Guest editors: Rob Wilson, Susan Baines, Irene Hardill and Martin Ferguson

Vol. 33, No. 2, March 2013
Internationalization and private engagement in higher education
Guest editors: Jane Broadbent and Robin Middlehurst,

Vol. 32, No. 2, March 2012
Public administration in an era of austerity
Guest editors: Joyce Liddle and Pete Murphy

Vol. 32, No. 1, January 2012
Trust and accountability in public financial management

Vol. 31, No. 5, September 2011
Public leadership
Guest editor: Jean Hartley

Vol. 31, No. 3, May 2011
Charities: accounting, accountability and governance
Guest editors: Noel Hyndman and Ray Jones

Vol. 30, No. 4, July 2010
The politics of co-produced research
Guest editors: Kevin Orr and Mike Bennett

Vol. 30, No. 2, March 2010
UK devolution and public services
Guest editor: Catherine Farrell

Vol. 29, No. 6, November 2009
Religion, third sector, policy and public management
Francis Davis

Vol. 29, No. 4, July 2009
Whole of government accounting—international trends
Guest editors: Giuseppe Grossi and Susan Newberry

Vol. 29, No. 2, March 2009
Consumerism in public services
Guest editor: Catherine Needham