Dr. Kim Moloney
BSc (Wisconsin); MPA (Syracuse - Maxwell School); MA (Johns Hopkins - SAIS), PhD (American University)

I am fascinated by the actors, institutions, and processes of government life. To understand difference, social justice, and inequality, one must interact with states, governments, civil society, corporations, and our global governance system. This includes an understanding of how power, ethics, and social justice intersect with accountability, transparency, legitimacy, and representation.

My academic training has encompassed International Relations, Economics, and Public Administration along with Latin America, Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. Recent academic practice has focused largely on the administrative life of international organizations (e.g. personnel management, whistle blowing, stakeholder power) and various public sector management issues within the Caribbean along with a bit of the South Pacific. More broadly, my life experiences and as such, my academic life and its practice, have been shaped by working abroad on six continents and in nine countries: United States, England, New Zealand, Zambia, Kenya, Peru, Jamaica, South Korea, and now, Australia. 

BUS122: Business in Society (S1, S2)

POL332: Administering Global Governance (S2)

SWM515: Introduction to Public Sector Management (S1)

SWM651: Comparative Governance and Public Administration (S2)

1. The intersection of public administration, international organizations, and global governance with a particular focus on international civil servants, public personnel management, whistle blowing, global administrative law, administrative tribunals, and stakeholder power.
2. The intersection of public administration with development and comparative administration with a particular focus on island-states, public service motivation, civil society – state relationships, and public service bargains in post-colonial island-states.

My research agenda is split into two separate but interrelated parts.

Current Topic (2017-2019): Administrative Life of International Organizations: sole- and co-authored papers published on international civil servant whistleblowers, the budget (non-) transparency of international organizations, and public personnel management issues within international organizations.

Emerging Topic (2019-forward): International Organization Accountability & Legitimacy Challenges: Current research, prior publications, prior work on international civil servant stakeholders and an emergent interest in international administrative tribunals will coalesce into the following:

(a) how our public administration disciplinary knowledge might interact with international organization administrative life;

(b) using public administration’s disciplinary knowledge to understand IO accountability and legitimacy challenges along with transparency and representation challenges within global governance. An ideal configuration will focus on the multilateral development banks and IOs/ROs with headquarters in the Indo-Pacific;

(c) conceptualization of transnational administration and its interaction with global policy.

Related in-progress work (as of May 2019) includes (a) under review, co-authored chapter (my lead): links between transnational administration and four case studies; (b) under review, co-authored article (my lead): links among public administration, the law, and international organization studies; and (c) under review, sole-authored article: interactions between transnational administration and international public administration via deconcentration, devolution, delegation, and decentralization.

Current Topic (2013 with 2020 end-date): Administrative Life of Island-States: Sole- and co-authored papers (and monograph) in process on public service bargains in Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago. To-date publications includes a co-authored article on these bargains in the Caribbean. This work is funded by a British Academy grant (Mar 2013-Oct 2016) with partners in the UK (Lindsay Stirton, Sussex; Martin Lodge, LSE) and Jamaica (Anthony Harriott, UWI).

My other island-state peer-reviewed publications unrelated to British Academy grant: (a) NGO-state relations in Jamaica; (b) public service motivations of Jamaican civil servants; (c) debt administration in island-states (Caribbean and Pacific); and (d) NGO-donor relations in Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, and Solomon Islands.

Both components of my island-state research include two months spent in Jamaica’s National Archives, 50+ NGO/donor interviews in Fiji/Vanuatu/Samoa/Solomon Islands, and three years teaching Public Sector Management at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). 

Research Grant: British Academy – International Partnership and Mobility Scheme, Project Title: “Legal Transplants and Public Service Bargains: Explaining Civil Service Performance and Reform in Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago” (March 2013 to October 2016), £29,544.

Research Award: Excellence in Early Career Research, Murdoch University, Nov 2018.

Teaching Award: Best undergraduate professor (Kyung Hee University, Kyunghee International College, Suwon, South Korea): Mar-Jun 2013; Sep-Dec 2013.

Research Fellowship: Centennial Center Fellowship of the American Political Science Association (Jun/Jul 2012).

INVITED ENGAGEMENTS

2017 (15 Sep): Invited Panelist, Institute of Public Administration Western Australia (IPAA) “Policy in Practice”, Adina Hotel, Perth. Topic: the myth of crisis, improper and proper crisis management, passive and active representative bureaucracy.

2017 (9 May): Invited Speaker, “Whistle Blowing and the International Civil Servant,” Politics and International Relations Seminar Series, University of Western Australia.

2017 (19 Mar): Invited Panelist, American Society of Public Administration, “Ferrel Heady Roundtable”, Atlanta GA, USA. Assigned Topic: “the administrative challenges in an anti-democracy time”

2017 (18 Mar). Invited Panelist, “Using Social Media as a Section Leader” at Section Leadership Meeting, American Society of Public Administration Conference, Atlanta GA.

2017 (22 Feb): Invited Panelist, Institute of Public Administration Western Australia (IPAA) “Espresso Series”, St. Georges, Perth. Topic: key public administration issues, debates and tensions in American public administration plus a short review of presidential power, executive orders, and signing statements.

2016 (19 Mar). Invited Panelist, “Public Administration and the World” at the Ferrel Heady Roundtable, American Society of Public Administration, Seattle WA.

2010 (Apr). Invited Panelist, “We are not a Niche: The Future of Comparative Public Administration,” Super Session Roundtable on Public Administration in 2020, American Society of Public Administration, San Jose CA.

2009 (27-28 Apr). Invited Panelist, “Bureaucratic Politics and the World Bank’s Public Sector Management Policies,” Researchers Alliance for Development Conference on the World Bank, Washington DC. One of thirteen Ph.D. students worldwide (and only American in the 2009 class) to present World Bank dissertation findings.

Co-Editor, Book Series on Global Policy & Transnational Administration, Bristol University Press (June 2019-present) via https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/transnational-administration-and-global-policy

Co-Editor, Special Issue on ‘Beyond Administrative Sovereignty: Rethinking Directionalities and Objects in Administration and Policy’, Administrative Theory and Praxis. Abstracts Due November 2020 via https://bit.ly/34frASB

Current Association Service

• Chair (Elected) (Apr 2019 to Apr 2021), Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA), American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), see: https://aspasica.wordpress.com/about-sicas-leadership/
• Elected Member, Chapter Council, International Chapter, American Society for Public Administration, term ends 2020.

Prior Association Service

• Chair, Fred Riggs Symposium, American Society for Public Administration Conference, March 2019. Thirteen panels, 100+ authors, see: https://t.co/7GTo6MtOat
• Co-Chair, Fred Riggs Symposium, ASPA Conference, March 2015, March 2016.
• Member, Fred Riggs Symposium, ASPA Conference, March 2017, March 2018.
• Appointed by ASPA President in Mar 2011 to ASPA Strategic Imperatives Group (SIG) for SIG1: “ASPA will be the voice of good governance at home and internationally” (Purpose Completed)
• Member, University of the West Indies, University of West Indies Hospital and University of Technology Ethics Committee (Jamaica), 2010-2011.
• Member, ASPA Strategic Steering Group, Jul 2010 to Mar 2011 (Purpose Completed);
• Member, ASPA International Outreach Action Team, May 2010 to Mar 2011 (Purpose Completed);
• Member, Subcommittee on Proposed ASPA International Chapter, May 2010 to Mar 2011 (Purpose Completed); and
• Member, ASPA’s Section on Women in Public Administration (SWPA) Scholarship Committee (2009, 2010).

Peer Review – Journals (Publons: https://publons.com/author/1340317/kim-moloney#profile): Public Administration Review, Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Public Administration and Development, International Review of Public Administration, International Studies Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Development Policy Review, Contemporary Politics, Public Performance & Management Review, Revista de Administração Pública, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Public Management Review

Peer Review – Presses: Cambridge University Press

• Started Mar 2018. Ellen Brookes — Securitising ‘Undesirable’ Populations in Korea and Japan. My role is 60pct. Kanishka Jayasuriya has 40pct.

Oxford University Press Handbook (Co-Editor)

2019. Stone, Diane; Moloney, Kim (Eds). Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198758648. See: https://bit.ly/2LDQwdB 

Book Series Co-Editor

June 2019 – present. Moloney, Kim; Bauer, Michael W.; Chou, Meng-Hsuan (co-editors): Transnational Administration and Global Policy, Bristol University Press, see: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/transnational-administration-and-global-policy

Refereed Journals

2020. Moloney, Kim; Rosenbloom, David H. “Creating Space for Public Administration in International Organization Studies,” American Review of Public Administration, 50(3): 227-243. DOI: 10.1177/0275074019888498.

2020. Moloney, Kim. “Post-Busan Partnership in the Pacific? An Analysis of Donor-NGO Relations,” The Pacific Review, 33(2): 287-304. DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2019.1569713

2020. Moloney, Kim; Moloney, Susan. “Australian Quarantine Policy: From Centralization to Coordination with mid-Pandemic COVID-19 Shifts,” Public Administration Review, 80(4): 671-682. DOI: 10.1111/puar.13224

2019. Moloney, Kim; Bowman, James S.; West, Jonathan P. “Challenges Confronting Whistleblowing and the International Civil Servant,” Review of Public Personnel Administration, 39(4): 611-634. DOI: 10.1177/0734371X18767247

2019. Moloney, Kim; Stone, Diane. “Beyond the State: Global Policy and Transnational Administration,” International Review of Public Policy, 1(1): 104-118. DOI: 10.4000.344 via https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/344

2019. Moloney, Kim. “Debt Administration in Small Island-States,” Australian Journal of Public Administration, 78(3): 325-340. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8500.12347

2018. Moloney, Kim; Stoycheva, Rayna. “Partial Two-Way Mirror: International Organization Budget Transparency,” Global Policy, 9(1): 26-40. DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12523

2016. Moloney, Kim; Chu, Hyo-Youn. “Public Service Motivation, Ethics, and Corruption: The Jamaican Case,” American Review of Public Administration, 46(4): 436-458. DOI: 10.1177/0275074014557022

2016. Moloney, Kim; Krislov, Samuel. “Legal-Administrative Responses and Democratic Deconsolidation,” Public Organization Review, 16(1): 17-37.DOI: 10.1007/s11115-014-0291-x

2015. Stirton, Lindsay; Lodge, Martin; Moloney, Kim. “Whitehall in the Caribbean? The Legacy of Colonial Administration for Post-Colonial Democratic Development,” Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Special Issue: Revisiting Westminster in the Caribbean, 53(1): 8-28. DOI: 10.1080/14662043.2014.993144

2013. Moloney, Kim. “Governing without Collaboration: State and Civil Society relations in Jamaica,” International Public Management Review, 14(1): 1-26.

2013. Moloney, Kim. “Comment on Antti Talvitie’s Paper, 2012: Observed Differences in Corruption between Asia and Africa: The Industrial Organization of Corruption and Its Cure,” International Public Management Review, 14(1): 68-74..

2012. Gulrajani, Nilima; Moloney, Kim. “Globalizing Public Administration: Today’s Research and Tomorrow’s Agenda,” Public Administration Review, 72(1): 78-86. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02489.x

2010. Moloney, Kim; Gulrajani, Nilima. “Globalized World, Globalized Research, Version 20.20,” Public Administration Review, 70 (Special Issue): s298-s299. Co-Author: Nilima Gulrajani. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02291.x

2009. Moloney, Kim. “Public Administration and Governance: A Sector-Level Analysis of World Bank Aid,” International Review of Administrative Sciences, 75(4): 609-627. DOI: 10.1177/0020852309349432

Book Chapters

2020. Moloney, Kim; Stone, Diane. “Transnational Administration of Regional and Global Policies,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, See: https://bit.ly/3lA4cpc (DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1734).

2019. Stone, Diane; Moloney, Kim. “The Rise of Global Policy and Transnational Administration,” in Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Diane Stone and Kim Moloney (Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 3-20. ISBN: 9780198758648. See: https://bit.ly/2LDQwdB (DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198758648.013.27)

2019. Moloney, Kim. “International Civil Servant Management: A Personnel-Influenced Research Agenda,” in Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Diane Stone and Kim Moloney (Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 671-690. ISBN: 9780198758648. See: https://bit.ly/2LDQwdB (DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198758648.013.24)

2019. Bowman, James S.; West, Jonathan P.; Moloney, Kim. “International Organizations, Civil Servants, and Whistleblowing,” in Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Diane Stone and Kim Moloney (Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 710-728. ISBN: 9780198758648. See: https://bit.ly/2LDQwdB (DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198758648.013.24)

2019. Haigh, Yvonne; Moloney, Kim.”Social (In)equity in Australia?” in Social Equity in the Asia-Pacific Region: Conceptualizations and Realities, Morgen Johansen (Ed.), Palgrave Macmillian, pp. 61-79, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15919-1_5

2019. Moloney, Kim. “Foreword: Many Steps Forward” in Palgrave Handbook of Global Perspectives on Emotional Labor in the Public Service, Mary E. Guy, Sharon H. Mastracci, Seung-Bum Yang (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan: vii-x.

2018. Moloney, Kim. “Hurdles to an Asian Century of Public Administration” in Public Policy in the ‘Asian Century’: Concepts, Cases and Futures, Sara Bice, Avery Poole, Helen Sullivan (Eds.), Palgrave MacMillan: 267-292. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60252-7_11

2008. Moloney, Kim. “Representative Bureaucracy and Decentralization: A Preliminary Cross-National Study,” in Governance and Institutional Re-Engineering, Ann Marie Bissessar (Ed.), Cambridge Scholars: 105-149.

Book Reviews

2014. Moloney, Kim. Review of Thomas Carothers and Diane De Gramont, Development Aid Confronts Politics, Governance, 27 (No. 2), 361-364. DOI: 10.1111/gove.12078

2010. Moloney, Kim. Review of Louis A. Picard and Terry F. Buss, A Fragile Balance: Re-examining the History of Foreign Aid, Security, and Diplomacy, Governance, 23 (No. 3), 540-544. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2010.01493_5.x

2010. Moloney, Kim. Review of Michael W. Bauer and Christoph Knill (Eds.) Management Reforms in International Organizations, Public Organization Review, 10 (No. 1), 89-92. DOI: 0.1007/s11115-009-0080-0

2007. Moloney, Kim. Review of Krishna Tummala, Comparative Bureaucratic Systems (2007), Public Administration Review, 67 (No. 6), 1083–1086. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00800.x

2004. Olsen, Kim (as Olsen). Review of Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson (Eds.), Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America¸ Journal of Latin American Geography, 3 (Dec 2004). DOI: 10.1353/lag.2005.0013

2003. Olsen, Kim (as Olsen). Review of Bob Woodward, Bush at War (History’s First Draft), SAIS Review, 23 (No. 2, summer 2003), 227-231. DOI: 10.1353/sais.2003.0050

2002. Olsen, Kim (as Olsen). Review of Ambassador Princeton Lyman, Partner to History: The U.S. Role in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy, SAIS Review, 22 (No. 1, Winter 2003), 329-332. DOI: 10.1353/sais.2003.0026

Issue Briefs

2020. Moloney, Susan; Moloney, Kim (7 Jul). “Border closures, identity and political tensions: how Australia’s past pandemics shape our COVID-19 response” The Conversation, see: https://theconversation.com/border-closures-identity-and-political-tensions-how-australias-past-pandemics-shape-our-covid-19-response-140941

2018. Moloney, Kim; Stoycheva, Rayna (5 Feb). “Following the Money: How Transparent are the World’s International Organisations?” Issue Brief, Australian Outlook, Australian Institute of International Affairs, see: https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/io-transparency/

2018. Moloney, Kim; West, Jonathan P.; Bowman, James S. (15 Jun). “Letting the Sun Shine In: Whistleblowers in International Organisations,” Issue Brief, Australian Outlook, Australian Institute of International Affairs, see: https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/letting-the-sun-shine-in-whistleblowers-in-international-organisations/

Murdoch University Press Release

2020. “How the COVID-19 pandemic shifted Australia’s quarantine policy”, see: https://www.murdoch.edu.au/news/articles/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-shifted-australia-s-quarantine-policy

2018. “Researchers urge international organisations to lift veil of secrecy”, see: http://media.murdoch.edu.au/researchers-urge-international-organisations-to-lift-veil-of-secrecy