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This paper outlines an agenda for overcoming methodological nationalism in contemporary public administration studies. Our agenda reflects an acknowledgement of diverse lived administrative experiences around the world. Such experiences are the results of local administrative conditions and their interaction with transnational pressures and cross-border activities that transform the administrative landscape over time. However, the hegemonic intellectualism prevalent in American public administration studies has legitimized only a few experiences worthy of attention. Our proposed agenda starts with this baseline observation and advocates taking two bold steps to challenge this hegemonic intellectualism. First, it is essential to recognize the empirical and theoretical vacuum in public administration studies concerning how “beyond the state” activities configure and reconfigure national and local administration and policy. Second, taking a step towards intellectual pluralism, it is fruitful to recognize that connecting with those pushing research on transnational administration and global policy could benefit the discipline. We conclude by describing how the articles in this special issue connect with this agenda., This paper was to appear as the introduction to the special issue Beyond Administrative Sovereignty published in Administrative Theory & Praxis, volume 45, issue 2.

Colonial-era administrative institutions and doctrines are fundamental to any analysis of Westminster's legacy in the Caribbean. Applying the lens of ‘Public Service Bargains’ (PSBs) – the formal and informal understandings of reward, competence and loyalty of public servants – we first examine constitutional and administrative doctrines regarding the public service of Crown Colonies, before analysing how these worked themselves out in Jamaica. Our analysis reveals a number of perceived deficiencies in the PSB in the pre-independence period that cast a shadow on future relations in the post-independence period.

Situating the challenge of global governance in the reconfigured law-space nexus, this Chapter aims to shed light on the uniqueness of the multinational research project-turned Global Administrative Law (GAL) approach to global governance with focus on the unease GAL has expressed with its own constitutional implications. The argument proceeds as follows. First, it is explained why GAL’s approach to global governance echoes the history of responding to the emergence of modern administrative agencies with administrative law in the United States. It is also noted that GAL reframes the world of national legal orders as a ‘global administrative space’. Second, it is shown that GAL turns to the idea of “publicness” to address the dual challenge of legality and legitimacy and the question of legal pluralism arising from the heterogeneity of global governance. Finally, it is concluded with discussion of the unsettled relationship between GAL and Global Constitutionalism.

Global policy making is unfurling in distinctive ways above traditional nation-state policy processes. New practices of transnational administration are emerging inside international organizations but also alongside the trans-governmental networks of regulators and inside global public—private partnerships. Mainstream policy and public administration studies have tended to analyse the capacity of public sector hierarchies to globalize national policies. By contrast, this Handbook investigates new public spaces of transnational policy making, the design and delivery of global public goods and services, and the interdependent roles of transnational administrators who move between business bodies, government agencies, international organizations, and professional associations. This Handbook is novel in taking the concepts and theories of public administration and policy studies to get inside the black box of global governance. Transnational administration is a multi-actor and multi-scalar endeavour having manifestations at the local, urban, sub-regional, subnational, regional, national, supranational, supra-regional, transnational, international, and global scales. These scales of ‘local’ and ‘global’ are not neatly bounded and nested spaces but are articulated together in complex patterns of policy activity. These transnational patterns represent an opportunity and a challenge for the study of both public administration and policy studies. The contributors to this Handbook advance their analysis beyond the methodological nationalism of mainstream approaches to re-invigorate policy studies and public administration by considering policy processes that are transnational and the many new global spaces of administrative practice -- Part One From national paradigms to the internationalization of policy and administration -- The rise of global policy and transnational administration, Diane Stone and Kim Moloney -- Global public policy and the constitution of political authority, Grace Skogstad -- Globalization and internationalization: impact upon the state and the civil service, Jos C.N. Raadschelders and Tony Verheijen -- The potential and limits of administrative sovereignty, Karl T. Muth -- State fragility, international development policy, and global responses, Derick W. Brinkerhoff -- International policy transfer: between the global and sovereign and between the global and local, Mark Evans -- International policy entrepreneurship, Michael Mintrom and Joannah Luetjens -- City networks and paradiplomacy as global public policy, Heidi Jane M. Smith -- International NGOs, transnational civil society, and global public policy: opportunities and obstacles in the twenty-first Century, Kelly Ann Krawczyk -- The international civil service, Edward Newman and Ellen Jenny Ravndal -- Domestic capacity to deliver innovative solutions for grand social challenges, Susana Borrás -- Sovereignty renewed : transgovernmental policy networks and the global–local dilemma, Timothy Legrand -- Part Two Global policy frames, processes, and institutions -- Scales and network societies : the expansion of global public policy, William D. Coleman -- The transnationalization of public spheres and global policy, Ingrid Volkmer -- Conceptualizing global public policy: a global public good perspective, Inge Kaul -- Regionalization and transregional policies, Luk Van Langenhove and Ivaylo Gatev -- European Union studies as a tributary of global policy and transnational administration, Stella Ladi -- International political economy : a global ‘policy turn’?, Richard Higgott and J.J. Woo -- Law–space nexus, global governance, and global administrative law, Ming-Sung Kuo -- Filling the gap : global masters of public administration and public policy programmes, Bok Jeong and Pan Suk Kim -- Global policy and transnational administration: intellectual currents in world making, Diane Stone -- Knowledge networks, scientific communities, and evidence-informed policy, Ole Jacob Sending -- The importance of informal intergovernmental organizations: a typology of transnational administration without independent secretariats, Felicity Vabulas -- Transnational administration from the beginning : the importance of charisma in shaping international organizational norms, Jill L. Tao -- Designing global public policies in the twenty-first century, Meng-Hsuan Chou and Pauline Ravinet -- The agenda-setting capacity of global networks, Laura Chaqués-Bonafont -- Part Three Actors, instruments, and implementation in transnational administration -- Transnational policy communities and regulatory networks as global administration, Alexander Gaus -- Standard setting and international peer review: the oecd as a transnational policy actor, Leslie A. Pal -- Evolving funding patterns of global programmes and their impacts on governance and operations, Daniele Alesani -- Development partnerships’ governance structures, accountability, and participation, Arianne Wessal and Clay G. Wescott -- Governance and administration in global health organizations: considering the legacies of the ‘golden era’ of global health policy?, Carmen Huckel Schneider -- Organized business and global public policy: administration, participation, and regulation, Karsten Ronit -- The role of large management consultancy firms in global public policy, Glenn Morgan, Andrew Sturdy, and Michal Frenkel -- Compliance in transnational regulation: a global supply chain approach, Fabrizio Cafaggi -- Providing foundations: philanthropy, global policy, and administration, Tobias Jung and Jenny Harrow -- Global summitry as sites of transnational technocratic management and policy contestation, Andrew F. Cooper -- Heads of international organizations : politicians, diplomats, managers, Patrick Weller and Xu Yi-chong -- International civil servant management : a personnel-influenced research agenda, Kim Moloney -- The United Nations, peacekeepers, and accountability, Muna Ndulo -- International organizations, civil servants, and whistleblowing, James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, and Kim Moloney

The formation of global public policy takes place in diverse fields populated by a range of different actors. One important, but neglected group of actors is large management consultancy firms. This chapter examines why and how such firms have been able to exercise influence over global public policy. Emphasis is placed on their reputational power, their organizational structures which enable them to use and develop expertise and the importance of their social networks amongst other elite actors. The chapter illustrates these themes through a case study of the REDD Initiative sponsored by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It concludes by outlining a research agenda which focuses on the power of consultancies in this arena, but also recognizes the limits to this power.

The rise of global initiatives in many policy sectors is an emerging phenomenon that deserves the attention of scholars interested in international relations, regional integration, and policy sciences, as well as practitioners seeking comparative examples beyond their national and regional borders. This chapter demonstrates the value-added of the design orientation in studying this phenomenon and the implications for the contemporary delivery of public services and goods. It begins by describing three waves of policy design studies and their insights for unpacking the relationship between instrument design and intended outcomes. The overview reveals a notable feature of the extant policy design approach: its empirical preoccupation with domestic-level developments, which inform but confine theory development. This chapter introduces the analytical steps required to operationalize policy design insights in examining global public policy and transnational administration. In so doing, it calls for a new metaphor for policy design that would incorporate the beyond-the-state dimension. Accepted version

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