Editorial Transitions

• Date: 01 September 2013
• Published date: 01 September 2013
• Author: James L. Perry
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12118

Editorial

Editorial Transitions 667

Public Administration Review,

Vol. 73, Iss. 5, pp. 667–668. © 2013 by

The American Society for Public Administration.

DOI: 10.1111/puar.12118.

awards for Best Dissertation, Excellence in Teaching,

and Distinguished Research. She is a fellow of the

National Academy of Public Administration.

 e third new member of PAR’s editorial team is

Daniel L. Feldman, associate professor at John Jay

College of Criminal Justice, City University of New

York. Dan assumes a new editorial role, Perspective

and Commentary editor.  is new editorship is the

result of the success of our article commentaries and

Perspective essays by public administration opin-

ion leaders, two features that we initiated with the

January/February 2012 issue. I am grateful to Dan

for stepping forward to take on this new role. Dan

served as a member of the New York State legislature

from 1981 through 1998, writing more than 140

state laws, including New York’s Megan’s Law and

Organized Crime Control Act. His most recent book,

published with coauthor Gerald Benjamin, is Tales

from the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New York

State.

For the benef‌i t of our readers and contributors,

Information for Contributors follows this editorial.

Information for Contributors describes PAR’s dif‌f erent

features and whom to contact if you have ideas or

questions related to them.

I am thankful for the signif‌i cant contributions that

Anne Khademian and Brad Wright have made to

PAR the last two years. I look for ward to the nota-

ble contributions that PAR will receive from Harry

Lambright, Rosemary O’Leary, and Dan Feldman.

An Acknowledgment of Contributions that

Do Not Appear on the PAR Masthead

During the last two years, we have experienced a large

increase in international submissions, which now

account for more than 40 percent of the manuscripts

we receive for review.  e reasons for the increase

are manifold.  e primary reason for the increase is

that public administration is a robust global enter-

prise, and PAR is the f‌i rst choice of many prospec-

tive contributors for their scholarship because we are

widely read and distributed around the world. We

also owe a good deal of credit for the growth of our

international submissions to international colleagues

With this issue, we bid farewell to two

members of the PAR editorial team. Anne

Khademian has edited the Administrative

Prof‌i le (AP) feature since July 2011. She is relinquish-

ing her editorial role so that she can give more time

to her substantial and growing demands as director

of the School of Public and International Af‌f airs at

Virginia Tech, which now ser ves students in both

Blacksburg and Alexandria, Virginia. Anne has

devoted signif‌i cant time to recruiting and developing

manuscripts and sharpening the AP brand. She leaves

us a solid foundation for the future.

Bradley Wright, founding editor for Public

Administration and the Disciplines (PA&D), is leav-

ing his PAR role to become managing editor of the

Journal of Public Administration Research and  eory

(JPART). I am pleased that Brad has been selected for

this signif‌i cant responsibility. Having worked with

him in many capacities over the years, I know he is

a superb choice for JPART managing editor. I regret

that I will no longer have his talents devoted to PAR,

but I appreciate that he has gotten the PA&D feature

of‌f to an excellent start.

Succeeding Anne as Administrative Prof‌i le editor is

W. Henry (Harry) Lambright, professor of public

administration and international af‌f airs as well as

political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship

and Public Af‌f airs at Syracuse University. Frequently

quoted in the media, Harry has performed research

for NASA, the National Science Foundation, the

Departments of Defense, Energy, and State, and

IBM. He is the author or editor of seven books and

has written more than 300 articles, chapters, papers,

and reports. He is a fellow of both the American

Association for the Advancement of Science and the

National Academy of Public Administration.

Rosemary O’Leary, Edwin O. Stene Distinguished

Professor of Public Administration in the School of

Public Af‌f airs and Administration at the University

of Kansas, is the new Public Administration and the

Disciplines editor. Rosemary has won 10 national

research awards and nine teaching awards. She is

the only person to win three National Association

of Schools of Public Af‌f airs and Administration

Editorial Transitions

James L. Perry

Indiana University Bloomington