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Rod Rhodes spent 25 years as the Editor of Public Administration before he retired from that role at the end of 2010. These essays in his honour are intended to celebrate the achievement of those 25 years and reflect on his contribution to the worlds of public administration and political science. Rod has now consolidated the standing of the journal as one of the most significant locations for work on public administration. At the same time, over his career, he has prodded and probed, challenged and innovated, in a wide range of areas. The essays in this special edition have been designed around his intellectual interests over the 40 years of his career, from local government, and networks, to ethnography and narratives. Each author was asked, as appropriate, to identify Rhodes' impact and to assess the present state of the literature. Three articles consider the state of the discipline in the UK, the USA and in the world of comparative politics. Rod is then given the opportunity to reflect on his career and where his interests might lead. As ever he wants the last word! This introduction provides the context for his career and charts in broad terms his intellectual trajectory and contribution.

Predictable and unpredictable challenges continually confront the policy settings and policy frameworks of governments. They provide a constantly changing dynamic within which policy-making operates. Governments at all levels are asking their public services to identify innovative and workable reforms to anticipate and address these challenges. Public service leaders around the world are struggling not only to better anticipate emerging demands but also to address reform backlogs. However, time and time again, major policy reforms can prove tough to implement – especially in turbulent environments – and even tougher to anchor over time. This leads to considerable uncertainty and inefficiency as governments and policy communities try to keep pace with change. Policies that unravel or are dismantled are costly and represent wasted opportunities. They lead to cynicism about the effectiveness of governments and public service advice more generally, making it more difficult to deal with other emerging challenges. This volume of proactive essays on delivering policy reform offers an intriguing blend of strategic policy advice and management insight. It brings together a diverse range of highquality contributors from overseas as well as from Australia and New Zealand – including national political leaders, public service executives, heads of independent agencies, and leading international scholars.

Preliminary -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Part I. The reform challenge -- 1. Delivering policy reform: making it happen, making it stick -- 2. 'Don't waste the crisis': the agenda for public-policy reforms in a turbulent world -- 3. Making reforms sustainable: lessons from the American policy reform experience -- Part II. National reform initiatives -- 4. How to design and deliver reform that makes a real difference: what recent history has taught us as a nation -- 5. The 'new responsibility model' for New Zealand public-sector CEOs -- 6. A portent of things to come: lessons from a reforming minister -- 7. The agenda for achieving a world-class public sector: making reforms that matter in the face of challenges -- 8. Collaborative reform: lessons from the COAG Reform Council, 2008-2010 -- 9. Entrenching 'Rogernomics' in New Zealand: political and academic perspectives -- 10. Institutional renewal and reform: the challenge of the Commonwealth of Nations -- Part III. Tackling and anchoring reforminitiatives -- 11. Tackling cartels: lessons for making and entrenching reform -- 12. The overhaul of Australian immigration practices, 2005-2010 -- 13. Getting integrity reforms adopted internationally -- 14. Sustaining water reform in Australia -- 15. Up in smoke: combating tobacco through legislative reform -- 16. Improving road safety: perspectives from Victoria's Transport Accident Commission -- 17. Epilogue: rules for reformers.