No. 78-2, March 2018

Index

• American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics
• Can Performance Management Best Practices Help Reduce Crime?
• Celebrating 78 Years
• Change, Complexity, and Leadership Challenges
• Christopher Pollitt, Advanced Introduction to Public Management and Administration, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 192 pp. $23.80 (paper), ISBN: 9781784712334.
• Collaborative Innovation, New Technologies, and Work Redesign
• Davide Torsello, ed., Corruption in Public Administration: An Ethnographic Approach (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2016). 258 pp. $110.79 (hardcover), ISBN: 9811785362583.
• Do Political Similarities Facilitate Interlocal Collaboration?
• Evidence‐Based Prevention of Organized Crime: Assessing a New Collaborative Approach
• Information for Contributors
• Issue Information
• J. A. Chandler, Public Policy and Private Interest: Ideas, Self‐Interest and Ethics in Public Policy (London: Routledge, 2017). 246 pp. $53.95 (paper), ISBN: 9780415558327.
• Looking Back over My 45 Years of Involvement with Government Reform Efforts
• Network Structure and Governance Performance: What Makes a Difference?
• Network Structure, Strength of Relationships, and Communities’ Success in Project Implementation
• Never Change a Winning Policy? Public Sector Performance and Politicians' Preferences for Reforms
• Professional Cities: Accredited Agencies, Government Structure, and Rational Choice
• Research, Evidence, and Decision Making: Charting PAR's Role in Evidence‐Based Management
• Social Context, Institutional Capacity, and Police Services: A Local Public Economies Perspective
• State Agencies’ Use of Administrative Data for Improved Practice: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities
• Strategies for Improving Measurement Models for Secondary Data in Public Administration Research: Illustrations from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey
• The Design and Practice of Integrating Evidence: Connecting Performance Management with Program Evaluation
• Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). 252 pp. $24.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780190469412.