International Review of Administrative Sciences
Public Policy & Public Administration
International Review of Administrative Sciences (IRAS ) is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to academic and professional public administration. Founded in 1927 it is the oldest scholarly public administration journal specifically focused on comparative and international topics. IRAS seeks to shape the future agenda of public administration around the world by encouraging reflection on international comparisons, new techniques and approaches, the dialogue between academics and practitioners, and debates about the future of the field itself.
IRAS is the official journal of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA). IRAS is published in three different language editions - English, French and Chinese.
"As the global village is evolving understanding the diversity of national perspectives on a growing variety of issues is an essential necessity, not a luxury. The careful selection of topics and articles in the International Review of Administrative Sciences provides a wealth of information for developing such understanding and meeting the needs of practitioners and academics." Arie Halachmi, Institute of Government at Tennessee State University, USA and Zhongshan University, China
"I have been doing research and editing in comparative public administration for the last twenty five years. I have always found the International Review of Administrative Sciences indispensable reading. It provides us with articles containing glimpses of new theoretical thinking, but also with accounts of best practices introduced by governments around the world." Ignacio Pichardo, Former President of IIAS, El Colegio Mexiquense
"International Review of Administrative Sciences offers thought-provoking contributions from both scholars and practitioners on a wide variety of topics related to international and comparative administration. Few journals can match IRAS in presenting timely analysis, dialogue, and debate on administrative issues from the industrialized countries of the global North, both in Europe and the Americas, and from the developing and transitioning nations of the global South." Derick W. Brinkerhoff, RTI Senior Fellow in International Public Management Research Triangle Institute
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
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Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iras
International Review of Administrative Sciences is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to academic and professional public administration. Founded in 1927 it is the oldest scholarly public administration journal specifically focused on comparative and international topics. IRAS seeks to shape the future agenda of public administration around the world by encouraging reflection on international comparisons, new techniques and approaches, the dialogue between academics and practitioners, and debates about the future of the field itself.
IRAS is the official journal of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA). IRAS is published in four different language editions – English, French, Spanish and Chinese.
The IIAS exists to advance the study and practice of public administration and public management. It operates at a global level and is funded by states world-wide; but is independent of any of them and, through its links with the United Nations, seeks to develop a voice and vision that is neutral, as objective as possible and grounded in the exigency of the fact. Although it has existed for over seventy years (since 1930), the Institute's focus is on the present and the future. How governance is done and how it could be done better; how the law of administration applies and how it might be applied more correctly; and how the management of public affairs is conducted and how it might be done best - all of these reflect its activities. Accountability is a core value for the institute. Those who exercise authority must account for its use to those on whose behalf they use it. Public Administration is the key activity that connects between the power-holders and the citizen. We believe it should be effective, efficient and economical in its execution of the duties and rights of the state. We support modern governance and proper public administration and believe these should be carried out in a way that actively acknowledges diversity, that is respectful of identity and serious belief and that reflects balance.
| Sabine Kuhlmann | Potsdam University, Germany |
| Ylva Noren Bretzer | University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Gene Brewer | University of Georgia, USA |
| Ricardo Correa Gomes | FGV São Paulo School of Business Administration, Brazil |
| Shamsul Haque | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Masao Kikuchi | Meiji University, Japan |
| Sara Melo | Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Martial Pasquier | Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Tobias Polzer | WU Wien, Austria |
| Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar | Universidad de Granada, Spain |
| Frederico Ganz | Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany |
| Naomi Adiv | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Martial Fanga Agbor | University of Religions and Denominations, Iran |
| Ricardo Bello-Gomez | Rutgers University–Newark, Colombia |
| Céline du Boys | Aix-Marseille Université, France |
| Noam Brenner | Minerva Stiftung, Germany |
| David Carassus | University of Pau, France |
| Christopher A. Cooper | University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Tie Cui | University of Edinburgh Business School, UK |
| Marco De la Cruz | Public Governance Institute – KU Leuven, Belgium |
| Mehmet Akif Demircioglu | Carleton University, Canada |
| Christoph Demmke | University of Vaasa, Finland |
| Patrick Diamond | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Matthias Döring | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Mauricio Ivan Dussauge-Laguna | FLASCO, Mexico |
| Patrice A. Dutil | Ryerson University, Canada |
| Giovanni Esposito | Centre for the Study of Public Policies & Admin (CEPAP), ULB, Belgium |
| Isabelle Fortier | ENAP, Canada |
| Diego Galego | Rutgers University, USA |
| Sharon Gilad | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Alexandre Gomide | Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brazil |
| J. Ignacio Criado Grande | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
| Marcel Guenoun | Université Aix Marseille, France |
| Gyorgy Hajnal | Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary |
| Are Vegard Haug | Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway |
| Eva Marin Hlynsdottir | University of Iceland, Iceland |
| Diana-Camelia Iancu | National Univ of Political Studies & Public Admin, Romania |
| Tobin Im | Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Yijia Jing | Fudan University, China |
| Åge Johnsen | Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway |
| Desislava Kalcheva | Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria |
| Erkki Karo | Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia |
| Tanja Klenk | Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Germany |
| Ivan Kopric | Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia |
| Praveen Kumar | Central University of South Bihar, India |
| Yoshiko Kuni | Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan |
| Martin Laffin | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Wai-Fung Lam | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| Elke Loeffler | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Gabriela Lotta | Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil |
| Vincent Mabillard | Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium |
| Elize Massard | Sao Paulo School of Business Administration, Brazil |
| Andrew Massey | Kings College London |
| Albert Meijer | Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Ines Mergel | University of Konstanz, Germany |
| M. Jae Moon | Yonsei University, South Korea |
| Bogdana Neamtu | Babe?-Bolyai University, Romania |
| Juraj Nemec | Department of Public Economics, Masaryk University, Czechia |
| Oliver Neumann | Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Sue Newberry | University of Sydney,Australia |
| SoonAe Park | Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Pietro Pavone | Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples, Italy |
| François Pichault | University of Liège, Belgium |
| Isabella Proeller | University of Potsdam, Germany |
| Rafael Martinez Puon | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico |
| Pierre-Charles Pupion | Université de Poitiers, France |
| Daniel Rauhut | Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| Adrian Ritz | University of Berne, Switzerland |
| Seriye Sezen | Ankara University, Turkey |
| Hiroko Shimada | Kyoto University, Japan |
| Carine Smolders | Department of Public Governance and Management, Ghent University, Belgium |
| Ed Stazyk | University at Albany, USA |
| Xuhong Su | University of South Carolina, USA |
| Markku Suksi | Åbo Akademi University, Finland |
| Tao Sun | Nankai University, China |
| Evrim Tan | KU Leuven, Belgium |
| O. Tserenchimed | National Academy of Governance of Mongolia, Mongolia |
| Emil Turc | IMPGT Aix-Marseille University, France |
| Jiro Uno | Hokkaido University, Japan |
| Sandra Van Thiel | Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Frédéric Varone | University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| Sylvia Veit | Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Germany |
| Diana Vicher | Public Management Dept, Guanajuato University, Mexico |
| Jean-Patrick Villeneuve | Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| Ellen Wayenberg | Ghent University, Belgium |
| Dominika Wojtowicz | Kozminski University, Poland |
| Wilson Wong | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: International Review of Administrative Sciences
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/IRAS to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of International Review of Administrative Sciences will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Funding
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplementary material
4.4 Reference style
4.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Before submitting your manuscript to International Review of Administrative Sciences, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
IRAS publishes original research. Full papers are restricted to a maximum of 7,000 words, including all elements (title page, abstract, notes, references, tables, biographical statement, etc.). The article will be assessed under the following headings: contribution to knowledge; thoroughness of research and/or evidence of special knowledge based on personal experience; organization of material; style; findings and conclusions.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
IRAS is an international peer-reviewed journal in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and the author’s name from the reviewer. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, and an editorial decision is generally reached within ten weeks of submission.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
2.3.1 Writing assistance
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance”).
It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
International Review of Administrative Sciences requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
International Review of Administrative Sciences encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.1.1 Plagiarism
International Review of Administrative Sciences and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway
3.3 Open access and author archiving
International Review of Administrative Sciences offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information please visit the SAGE Choice website. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files
International Review of Administrative Sciences adheres to the SAGE Harvard reference style. View the SAGE Harvard guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Harvard EndNote output file.
4.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
International Review of Administrative Sciences is hosted on SAGE Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/IRAS to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities ensuring that their work is recognised.
We encourage all authors to add their ORCIDs to their SAGE Track accounts and include their ORCIDs as part of the submission process. If you don’t already have one you can create one here.
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
6. On acceptance and publication
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice. In addition, SAGE is partnered with Kudos, a free service that allows authors to explain, enrich, share, and measure the impact of their article. Find out how to maximise your article’s impact with Kudos.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the International Review of Administrative Sciences editorial office as follows:
Catherine Humblet
Journal Manager
catherine.humblet@gmail.com