''Public Administration'' is a quarterly
peer-review
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ed
academic journal
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which covers research, theory, and practice in
public administration
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,
public policy
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, public organization theory, and
public management
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. It was established in 1923
and was ranked in the top of its field by a 1983 survey. In 2021, the journal was ranked as second in the field of public administration.
One of its founders was the
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and later
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statesman
Richard Haldane (1st
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of Haldane), and the journal awards an annual prize in his honour to the most distinguished practitioner essay published in ''Public Administration'' in that year. The journal is published by
Wiley (publisher)
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and is edited by Bruce D. McDonald, III (
North Carolina State University
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).
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
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of 4.013, ranking it 31st out of 187 journals in the category "Political Science" and 11th out of 49 journals in the category "Public Administration".
History
''Public Administration'' was established by the
Royal Institute of Public Administration
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in 1922. When the first issue of the journal was published in 1923, it was published under the banner of the ''Journal of Public Administration.'' The aim of the journal was to publish news and research from the field of public administration in order to improve the "efficiency of public services, and the efficiency of public servants."
Initially, the journal was edited by state of the Institute, though the journal elected
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Early life and education
Chester was born in 1907 ...
from
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as its first academic editor-in-chief in 1943. After the Institute's closure in 1992, the journal's editor approached Blackwell Publishers about taking over ownership and distribution of the journal to prevent its closure. Currently, the journal is the official journal of the public administration section of the
American Political Science Association
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.
Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been editors-in-chief:
Abstracting and Indexing
''Public Administration'' is
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See also
*
List of political science journals
This is a list of political science journals presenting representative academic journals in the field of political science.
A
*''Acta Politica''
*''African Affairs''
*''American Journal of Political Science''
*''American Political Science Revi ...
*
List of public administration journals
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9299
Public administration journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Publications established in 1923
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals