Improving policy design and development is a continuing challenge of public policy analysis as a sub-field of public administration. The articles that comprise this issue explore varied policy areas, but are somehow linked in terms of policy design and development.

Accountability and efficiency as mainstay concepts in contempor ary discourses in the field of study of Public Administration are ideas or principles forwarded in the New Public Management paradigm. In this issue of the Philippine Journal of Public Administration, scholars examine these concepts and the various mechanisms employed by state agencies as they per form their functions and find ways to improve public service delivery and optimize the use of resources.

The development of public administration as a field of study and practice in recent decades is inextricably linked with the changing role of the state and the increasing importance of the private sector. The diversity of discourses tackled in the articles included in this issue reflects the evolution of public administration as a discipline that has expanded to include domains such as governance, citizenship, democracy, leadership, and the influences of globalization on local policies.

As a pioneer in public administration education in Southeast Asia, the Institute of Public Administration did not only benefit  the restructuring of the post-World War II Philippine government, but also the development of bureaucracies of its neighboring countries. Testament to the breadth of the NCPAG's impact and influence is the inclusion in this issue of three articles written by foreign scholars in the field of Public Administration. 

We are also introducing in this issue a new section called "Reflections from Scholars and Practitioners." The special section will be featuring studies, researches, and think pieces by PA scholars and practitioners, as well as exchanges between them, with the aim of invigorating discursive discussions and analyses in the field. 

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This issue of the Philippine Journal of Public Administration (PJPA) features reviews of fundamental concepts and models of public administration and studies on innovative practices. At the broader sphere, a paradigmatic analysis in reckoning the history of Philippine Public Administration (PPA), primarily drawing on the bureaucratic model of Max Weber, is put forth challenging a conventional lens in viewing the evolution of the PPA. Likewise, the PJPA issue presents an inevitable review of public administration’s cognate concepts and theories of organization and management, such as institutionalism. Email us at pjpa.editor@gmail.com or call us at +632 926 1443 for more information on how you can access the full articles.