<i>Journal of Public Affairs Education</i> at 25: Topics, trends, and authors

Raadschelders, Jos C. N.; Whetsell, Travis A.; Dimand, Ana‐Maria; Kieninger, Katie

doi:10.1080/15236803.2018.1546506

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“…a.). By the late 1960s, Mosher (1968, as cited in Raadschelders et al, 2018) predicted that public oriented programs would grow rapidly as a function of it being a second advanced degree for people working in the public sector. And Grode and Holzer (1975, as cited in Raadschelders et al, 2018) stated that by the mid-1970s degree programs such as Master of Public Affairs was received both by graduates and their supervisors as meeting the needs of the career civil service.…”

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“…Economics and quantitative method-oriented curriculum advocated by Ford for management education in the 1960s also reached these public focused disciplines and led to the initiative within the US to create or re-formulate eight public policy schools with a focus on analysis. These institutions were Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, Duke, Harvard, Michigan, Texas, Stanford, and RAND (Ellwood, 2008; Raadscheldersa et al, 2018). It was during Kennedy and Johnson administration era when people in the leading positions of public sector, business, and academia believed any challenge could be solved if quantitative and analytic approaches were used.…”

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A renewed purpose for public serving professionals focused graduate programs in global higher education ecosystem

Tsumagari

2022

Teaching Public Administration

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This explanatory study explored what graduate programs should embrace in educating public serving professionals to become able to respond to paramount challenges unknown at the time of studies. For conceptual frameworks, the study employed (a) principal-agent theory on how predominant philanthropic organizations pushed the creation of globalized higher education industry post-World War II (WWII) and (b) world-systems theory to delineate the spatial penetration of the hegemonic intellectual core. The study found that the post-WWII’s geopolitically driven overseas engagements by US higher education institutions (HEI) orchestrated by well-resourced philanthropic giants such as Ford Foundation made a ground for what we see today: a globalized HEI industry governed by the core with the hegemonic power, termed for the study as a global higher education ecosystem. The study noted that irrespective of if the concerned HEI occupies the position in the core or not, rootedness in the place and its people is the key for public focused programs precisely because of their nature of public-ness. The study then drew three programmatic constructs as referential for late comer HEI to assume meaningful roles for the society they serve through their public serving professionals focused graduate programs: (1) contextualization of globally standardized academic contents into classroom discussions by connecting with cases/situations surrounding given society; (2) positioning the program as a post-entry milestone for public sector professionals to become better prepared state-building force by focusing on the linkage of theories and practices; and (3) HEI specific, unique intellectual identify exploration that is anchored to the place and to its own constituency. The study concluded that today’s graduate programs designed for public serving professionals could frame its objective, as a renewed purpose, to educate academically informed state-builders with the capacity to craft and perform own actions as new realities arise in front of them.

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A renewed purpose for public serving professionals focused graduate programs in global higher education ecosystem

Tsumagari

2022

Teaching Public Administration

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“…JPAE has been slow to embrace the internationalization of the field. Although I have not systematically analyzed the contents of JPAE, a review of the contents of JPAE from its first 23 volumes (Raadschelders, Whetsell, Dimand, & Kieninger, 2018) concludes that JPAE's international content is modest. One reason for the modest international content may be the makeup of JPAE's teams of editors and associate editors, which has drawn almost exclusively from U.S. universities, both during my editorship and subsequent editorial teams to the present day.…”

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The Journal of Public Affairs Education at 25: An agenda for the future

Perry

2019

Journal of Public Affairs Education

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This essay is a potpourri of reflections about elevating both the status of public affairs as a field and the Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE), the field's journal of record. The reflections argue that public affairs programs need to elevate their status in our universities, and program leaders and faculty must take more responsibility for closing the gap between theory and practice. JPAE could facilitate these initiatives, support globalization of the field, and lead a more robust discussion of public affairs doctoral education.

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“…Reviews of public administration research occur sporadically. Typically, they come in the form of meta-analyses or literature reviews aiming to identify trends within specific topical areas (e.g., McGuire 2006; O’Toole 2015; Kapucu, Hu and Khosa 2017) or involve scholars taking an introspective look at research trends in order to understand the direction of the field (e.g., Raadschelders and Lee 2011; Adams et al 2014; Raadschelders et al 2018). Typically, these reviews are used as a basis to identify shortcomings of the literature in general and set out an appropriate research agenda moving forward.…”

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Is Florida Really that Interesting? State Geographic Bias in Public Administration Research

Fowler

Fox

2022

State and Local Government Review

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The authors examine whether there are geographic biases in public administration research. They use a dataset of 557 research articles from top public administration journals in which specific state names appear in the title or abstract. Findings suggest that not only is a mass of public administration research concentrated in four states (Florida, California, New York, and Texas), but specific thematic topics and policy areas are associated with each of those states. In general, this suggests that authors need to consider if continuing these trends creates a blind spot for research bias in the field, where the collective understanding of a specific topic is disproportionately influenced by data from a single state. The broad implications are that how states serve as a research setting should be actively considered by authors.

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Journal of Public Affairs Education at 25: Topics, trends, and authors

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

A renewed purpose for public serving professionals focused graduate programs in global higher education ecosystem

A renewed purpose for public serving professionals focused graduate programs in global higher education ecosystem

The Journal of Public Affairs Education at 25: An agenda for the future

Is Florida Really that Interesting? State Geographic Bias in Public Administration Research

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