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Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Editorial -- 30 years of IJPSM publications: an analysis -- The provenance of public management and its future: is public management here to stay? -- Public management: 30 years on -- Public administration research since 1980: slipping away from the real world? -- Thirty years of public management scholarship: plenty of "how," not enough "why" -- Is there still a need for teaching and research in public administration and management? A personal view from the UK -- Getting to Norway – 30 years of public management research -- Three decades, four phases -- Management, management everywhere: whatever happened to governance? -- Exploring 30 years of UK public services management reform – the case of health care

Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Marketization revisited -- A case of employment services in Italy -- Marketized employment services -- Contracting out parks and roads maintenance in England -- Marketization trajectories in the Danish road and park sectors -- Capability versus efficiency: contracting out park and road services in Norway -- Is public procurement efficiency conditioned by market types? A critical test in park and roadsectors in Sweden -- Collaborative benchmarking in the Danish district-heating sector

Despite high expectations about the results of agencification and a legal obligation to evaluate executive agencies, ministers and MPs seem not very interested in evaluating agencies' results. Hood's theory on blame avoidance is used to explain the lack of evaluation in the case of the Dutch ZBOs. Only one in seven ZBOs is evaluated as frequently as mandated. Findings show that ZBO evaluations are more an administrative than a political process. Reports do not offer hard evidence and are seldom used in parliamentary debates. There are no clear patterns as to which ZBOs are evaluated more, or less, often.