Challenges in Public Administration Research
This collection discusses the challenges faced in public administration research, emphasizing the need for quality, relevance, and influence. It sheds light on the realities, foundations, and goals of research in this field, urging for greater rigor and attention to generate usable knowledge for professionals.
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Challenges in Public Administration Research James L. Perry, Indiana University, Bloomington OECD Government Schools Network 2017 Organized by National School of Public Administration (ENAP) and Get lio Vargas Foundation (FGV) June 20, 2017
CONGRATULATIONS! 50thanniversary of RAP RAP s bilingual status Revista de Administra o P blica Brazilian Journal of Public Administration
PREVIEW Brief comment about my evidence related to the research challenges Research challenges Meeting the challenges
FOUNDATIONS FOR MY EVIDENCE Research career dating to 1970s Experiences as an university administrator on three campuses Six years as Public Administration Review Editor in Chief
FACTS ABOUT PAR Nearing 77 years of publication (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.111 1/(ISSN)1540-6210) Owned by American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), published by Wiley/Blackwell 19 Editors in Chief since 1940 Almost 6000 institutional subscribers globally About 1 million downloads annually since 2015 Two-year impact factor of 3.47
RESEARCH CHALLENGES Public administration should be seeking three results simultaneously: 1. Quality 2. Relevance 3. Influence
SOME REALITIES BEHIND THE CHALLENGES Disposed to chase the latest fads Short-term behaviors precipitated by reward systems, university rankings, pressures to publish in SSCI journals Uncertain human and financial resources for high-quality research Diversity of subjects, languages and cultures
QUALITY Rigor Attention Persuasiveness Perry, J.L. (2012). How Can We Improve Our Science to Generate More Usable Knowledge for Public Professionals? PAR
RELEVANCE Generating usable knowledge for people who are trying to improve what administrative institutions do in the public sphere Perry, J. L. (2013). Reflections about Relevance. PAR
INFLUENCE Translating scholarship from publication to impact Perry, J. L. (2015). Revisiting the Core of Our Good Government Ethos. PAR Perry, J. L. (2016) Public Administration Needs to Become a Player in the Ratings and Rankings Business. PAR
MEETING THE CHALLENGES Defining research broadly as discovery, integration, application Finding ways to address known knowledge gaps Editors must commissioning critical content Mitigating the scourge of specialization Structure/motivation for our scholarship Less exclusively problem-driven research in PA More attention to questions of practical importance in disciplinary journals (Watts 2017)
MEETING THE CHALLENGES: CROSSOVERS TO DISCIPLINES Systematic reviews PA scholarship must become much less insular Perry, J. L. (2016). Is Public Administration Vanishing? PAR
ELEVATING EXPECTATIONS FOR NORMS OF QUALITY Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) extends quality norms from the journal to the research community Data sharing Replication Perry, J. L. (2017). Practicing What We Preach! Public Administration Review Promotes Transparency and Openness. PAR
BUILDING AND STRENGTHENING PRACTITIONER RESEARCHER TIES Research programs that generate shared interest Creation of forums that advance mutual interests between practitioners and scholars Developing integrative social media strategies Perry, J. L. (2015). Forging Practitioner Scholar Partnerships. PAR Perry, J. L. (2017). Amplifying the Voices of Practitioners in PAR. PAR
