Closing Volume 53, and an Editor’s Farewell

• Date: 01 November 2021
• DOI: 10.1177/00953997211052593
• Author: Brian J. Cook
• Published date: 01 November 2021
• Subject Matter: Editorial

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Administration & Society

2021, Vol. 53(10) 1483 –1484

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Editorial

Closing Volume 53,

and an Editor’s Farewell

The November 2021 issue completes Volume 53 in rousing fashion. Like its

predecessors, the issue offers a nicely diverse set of research articles cover-

ing a fascinating case of temporary organizations in smart cities develop-

ment, the link between organizational roles and perceptions of success in

policy implementation, and whether a government program might increase

volunteers and donations to nonprofit organizations. The research article

section is more limited than usual, however, as we offer an expanded

Perspectives section to take advantage of the elegant, probing, and thought-

provoking commentaries from major thinkers in our field that Mark

Prebble’s essay on public valuable knowability has sparked. We are grateful

for the extensive time and effort that Mark Moore, Jean Hartley and John

Benington, B. Guy Peters, and Timo Meynhardt invested in crafting their

commentaries, and for Mark Prebble’s willingness to respond to the com-

mentaries with more provocations. The spirit of disputatio sine fine is alive

and well in the pages of A&S.

The closing of Volume 53 also marks the end of my tenure as editor in

chief of Administration & Society. It is truly hard to believe that 7 years

have passed since Gary Wamsley and I completed the editorial handoff in

January 2015. Over the course of those 7 years the journal has remained in

solid shape, well positioned in the middle of the pack of highly-ranked

journals in public administration and related fields. If the journal has per-

haps gotten a little better, perhaps exerting a bit more impact, it is only

because of the terrific work of the current editorial team, Associate Editor

Adam Eckerd and Managing Editor Huishan Yang, the support of Associate

Editors Rick Green and John Burns, and the equally fine work of the two

immediate past managing editors, Anne Zobell and Jake Paysour. I must

also thank current SAGE Publications Associate Editor Julia Slater and

Journal Productions Content Manager Pankaj Sahu and their respective

predecessors with whom I collaborated. Finally, and no less importantly, I

thank the faculty past and present in the Center for Public Administration

and Policy at Virginia Tech for their support over the course of my tenure

as editor. Although going forward the journal will not continue to be affili-

ated with CPAP, it is CPAP’s distinctive vision of public administration

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