Best journal paper of 2008 Journal of Public Money and Management

Winner, through the unanimous choice of the panel of judges, of the 2009 UK Public Administration Consortium prize for the paper in the journal Public Money and Management which offers the greatest contribution to taking forward the concepts or practice of public administration. The judges felt that this article stood out both for its clarity and its rigour in explaining and analysing a complex subject and doing so in a way that would be both interesting to academics and directly relevant to practitioners.
In 2013, this was their 6th most downloaded paper (Managing Editor, Journal of Public Money and Management, 04/03/2014)