Selected list of publications. A full list if available here

Books under contract

O’Flynn, J. (under contract) Markets for misery: Profiting from vulnerability and misfortune. Polity, Cambridge.

Books Nabatchi, T., O’Flynn, J.,’t Hart, P. and Lucas, P. (eds.) (In press - 2024) Positive public administration: New directions for theory and practice (forthcoming August 2024).

Dickinson, H., Yates, S., O’Flynn, J. and Smith, C. (eds.) (2024) Research handbook on public management and COVID-19. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Dickinson, H. and O’Flynn, J. (2016) Evaluating outcomes in health and social care. Policy Press, Bristol.

O’Flynn, J., Blackman, D., And Halligan, J. (eds.) (2014) Crossing boundaries in public management and policy: The international experience. Routledge, London.

Alford, J. and O’Flynn, J. (2012) Rethinking public service delivery: Managing with external providers. Palgrave, Basingstoke. Best book award Academy of Management.

O’Flynn, J. and Wanna, J. (eds.) (2008) Collaborative governance: A new era of public policy in Australia? ANU Press, Canberra.

Journal Articles

Mcdonald Iii, B., Hatcher, W., Bacot, H., Evans, M.E., McCandless, S.A., McDougle, L.M., Young, S.L., Elliott, I.C., Emas, R., Lu, E.Y., E. Abbott, M.E., Bearfield, D.A., Berry-James, R.M., Blessett, B., Borry, E.L., Diamond, J., Franklin, A.L., Gaynor, T.S., Gong, T., Goodman, D., Guy, M.E., Hall, J.L., Hatch, M., Jin, M.H., Jordan, M.M., Daniel, J.L., Love, J.M., Craig S., Maher, C.S., Menifield, C., O’Flynn, J., O’leary, R., Liu, P., Pliscoff, C., Puron-Cid, G., Rinfret, S.R., Sowa, J.E., Stazyk, E.C., Stewart, K., Torneo, A.R., Wiley, K.K., And Zhang, Y. (2024). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Public Administration: An Agenda for Future Research. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 30(1), 11-27. 

McDonald, B., Hall, J., O’Flynn, J., and Van Thiel, S. (2022). The future of public administration research: An editor’s perspective. Public Administration. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12829

Douglas, S., Schillemans, T., ‘t Hart, P., Ansell, C., Bøgh Anderson, L., Flinders, M., Head, B., Moynihan, D., Nabatchi, T., O’Flynn, J., Peters, B.G., Raadschelders, J., Sancino, A., Sørensen, E. and Torfing, J. (2021) Rising to Ostrom’s challenge: An invitation to walk on the bright side of public governance and public service. Policy Design and Practice. 4(4), 441-451.

O’Flynn, J. (2021) Where to for public value? Taking stock and moving on. International Journal of Public Administration, 44(10), 867-877.

O’Flynn, J. (2021) Confronting the big challenges of our time: Making a difference during and after COVID-19. Public Management Review, 23(7), 961-980.

O’Flynn J. (2019) Rethinking relationships: clarity, contingency, and capabilities. Policy Design and Practice, 2(2), 115-136.

Blackman, D., Buick, F., O’Flynn, J., O’Donnell, M. and West, D. (2019) Managing expectations to create High Performance Government. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 39(2), 185-208. Awarded best article of the year.

Drew, J., O’Flynn, J. and Grant, B. (2018) Performing what? Exploring and expanding the notion of synecdoche in performance management practice. Public Administration Quarterly, 42(3), 395-424.

Ugyel, L. and O’Flynn, J. (2017) Measuring policy success: Evaluating public sector reform in Bhutan. International Journal of Public Administration, 40(2), 115-125.

Blackman, D., Buick, F. and O’Flynn, J. (2016) From engaging to enabling: Could an asset- based approach transform Indigenous affairs? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 34(8), 1632-1651.

Buick, F., Blackman, D., O’Flynn, J., O’Donnell, M. and West, D. (2016) Effective practitioner- scholar relationships: Lessons from a coproduction partnership. Public Administration Review, 76(1), 35-47. Awarded Louis Brownlow award for best article 2016.

Book Chapters

O’Flynn, J. (2022). A global perspective on public administration? The dynamics shaping the field and what it means for teaching and learning. In K. Bottom, P. Dunning, I. Elliot & J. Diamond (eds). Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Public Administration and Management. Edward Elgar.

O’Flynn, J. (2022). Public service markets, in K. Schedler (ed.) Encyclopedia of Public Management, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

O’Flynn, J. (2021) High performance government, in B.G. Peters and I. Thynne (eds). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Oxford University Press. Oxford.

Dickinson, H. and O’Flynn, J. (2021) The changing nature of work: Time to return to performance fundamentals? in D. Blackman (ed) Handbook on Performance Management in the Public Sector, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Poole, A., O’Flynn, J. and Lucas, P. (2021) Public sector reform and the public servant, in H. Dickinson, H. Sullivan and H. Henderson (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant, Palgrave, Basingstoke.

O’Flynn, J. (2019) Hybrids: smart, dumb, solution or problem? in J. Koppenjan, P. M. Karré and K. Termeer (eds.) Smart Hybridity: Potential and Challenges of New Governance Arrangements, Eleven International Publishing, The Hague.

Halliday, D. and O’Flynn, J. (2018) Economic rents, rent-seeking behaviour, and the case of privatized incarceration, in D. Boonin (ed) The Palgrave Handbook on Philosophy and Public Policy, Palgrave, Basingstoke.

Reports and Briefs DeSeve, E. and O’Flynn, J. (2022) Charting the Course to Tomorrow’s Trusted Digital Services. IBM Center for the Business of Government, Washington DC.

O’Flynn, J. (2020) _Collaborating after crisis: How public administration scholars and practitioners can work togethe_r. Governing During Crises Policy Brief No.8, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

O’Flynn, J. and Sturgess, G. (2019) 2030 and beyond: Getting the work of government done, research report prepared for the Independent Review of the Australian Public Service, Canberra, Australia.

O’Flynn, J, (2018) Lessons from the Australian experience of public sector reform, prepared for Centro de Estudios Públicos (Center of Public Studies), Chile.