1 THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE Willy Mc Court IDPM, University of Manchester, UK+ and Nilima Gulrajani LSE, University of London, UK+ SUMMARY This article introducing the Special Issue begins with a review of development administration and management’s post-independence history, outlining the new challenges posed by the rise of the governance model and critical development management (DM). The seven articles which follow are then summarized. We extrapolate from them to suggest new directions for DM: a better understanding of the relationship between politics and management; using a more nuanced view of policy to inform DM specialists’ ethical choices between policies; understanding policy capture by hostile interests; taking the ‘view from below’, studying local sensemaking and the way it affects programme outcomes, and the interaction of power and knowledge. Suggested new directions include a focus on the practice of development agencies and on developing appropriate research methodologies. Key Words - development management, governance, public administration, managerialism Over the last six decades, Public Administration and Developmen and its predecessors has been active in shaping scholarship and policy knowledge in management and international development (Collins, 2000). As a way of marking the journal’s sixtieth anniversary, the Development Management Study Group 1 + authors to add designations, contacts etc.. of the Development Studies Association (DSA) called for papers on the future of international development 1 See www.devmanagement.info