The Locus and Focus of Public Administration Research in Tanzania: An Assessment of the Journal of Public Sector Management, 2011-2016

Abstract

This paper presents the locus and focus of public administration research in Tanzania towards practice-oriented research at the expense of theory development. Apart from providing reasons for this slant, it is recommended in this paper that editors and authors of JPSM should include topics and themes that focus on theory and research so as to restore the erstwhile glory of public administration intellectual predominance and its foundations.