Farewell with Thanks and Welcome Aboard

• Author: Jos C. N. Raadschelders,Richard J. Stillman
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02301.x
• Published date: 01 January 2011
• Date: 01 January 2011

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He recently  nished an impressive PAR Foundations

of Public Administration contribution on that vital

topic and has been an active PAR reviewer and con-

tributing author.

James K. Hartmann, city manager of Alexandria,

Virginia, has served in several senior city management

posts throughout the United States and coauthored

an innovative lead article in the November/D ecember

2010 issue of PAR on organizational culture as an

e  ective, practical management tool capable of

e nhancing local government productivity.

Martha Joynt Kumar of Towson State University

authored one of the most signi cant and in uential

lead PAR essays that appeared in the July/August 2008

issue, summing up “best practices” of past presiden-

tial transitions. Her essay was used by the incoming

Obama administration to chart one of the smoothest

presidential transitions in U.S. history.

Christine Martell of the University of Colorado

Denver received the distinguished Jesse Burkhead

Award for the best essay published in Public Budget-

ing and Finance during 2008. She specializes in

public  nance as well as comparative studies and

recently published important PAR ar ticles on con-

temporary tax limitation and municipal bond issues.

Patricia Shields of Texas State University San Marcos

is the editor in chief of Armed Forces and Society and

wrote a pathbreaking lead essay for the March/April

2008 issue of PAR dealing with pragmatism as a prime

intellectual source for contemporary American public

administration and its implications for our  eld today.

She contributed to the PAR Foundations of Public

Administration series on administrative scope and

methods that o er a critical new look at this topic.

Eran Vigoda-Gadot is the head of the School of

Political Sciences as well as head and founder of

the Center for Public Management and Policy at

the University of Haifa, Israel. He has authored or

We extend special thanks to those who are

leaving the PAR editorial board after three

years of excellent service:  om Reilly of

San Diego State University, Susan C. Baugh of the

King County (Washington) Auditor’s O ce, Mark A.

Pisano of the University of Southern California, Mark

R. Rutgers of Amsterdam University, Elizabeth Hill of

the California Legislative Analyst’s O ce, John Bohte

of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, John Hal-

ligan of the University of Canberra, and Edward A.

Flynn of the City of Spring eld, Massachusetts.

We welcome aboard nine new editorial board appoint-

ees for 2011–14, who represent many of the rising

intellectual and professional stars within our  eld:

Maria P. Aristigueta of the University of Delaware

is a professor of public administration and director

of the School of Urban A airs and Public Policy. She

is the author of Managing for Results in State Govern-

ment (1999) and, more recently, Civil Society in Cuba

and Organizational Behavior in the Public and Non-

Pro t Sectors. She also was a consultant to the Seoul

Metropolitan Government in South Korea and taught

public administration at the University of Bucharest

and Catholic University, Leuven.

Ali Farazmand of Florida Atlantic University is the

author or editor of 19 books covering a wide range

of current administrative topics, including compara-

tive public administration, governance, organization

theory, globalization, privatization, and administrative

reform. He is the founder and editor of Public Organi-

zation Review: A Global Perspective and authored the

lead essay in PAR’s November/December 2009 issue,

“Building Administrative Capacity for the Age of

Rapid Globalization.”

James L. Garnett of Rutgers University–Camden has,

throughout his academic career, penned innumer-

able works that advanced our theoretical and applied

knowledge of administrative communications, includ-

ing Communicating for Results in Government (1992).

Farewell with  anks and Welcome Aboard