It should explain important gaps and indicate possible insights and solutions to be presented in the work of the contributors. It should underscore themes and processes that provide linkage across the set of contributed essays. The contributors should offer specific treatments of the theme lodged in a well-documented context. They should provide analysis that explores the roots of the problem and opens the door to either possible or actual interventions. Insights identifying strategies that either worked, or failed to work or might have worked, have special value to applied practitioners.
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A topical section is not a monograph and will never approximate the coherence and thematic development of the work of a single author. The proportion of HO space to be allocated to topical sections will not be reserved in advance. We have no preconceptions on this subject. Articles proposed for topical sections will be subjected to the same peer review as unsolicited material. We do not intend to accord them a com-petitive advantage.