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Facilitation of connectedness has been a fundamental role of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the Public Administration Review (PAR) throughout their six decades of professional service. Together, they have sought to link practitioners and academicians across subfields and varied levels of activities. As a foremost refereed journal, PAR has sought to encourage the linking of practice and theory through timely publication of methodologically disciplined research, informed analyses and commentaries, and constructive literature reviews and correspondence. These responsibilities have been persistently challenging. ASPA and PAR have served a dynamic field that has made some wrong turns and had others forced on it, resulting in failed autonomy, followed by increasing partisan politicization of governments and reduced reliance on professionally expert administration. For ASPA, it has created leadership and membership problems. For PAR, it has sometimes exacerbated difficulties in connecting practitioners and academicians, but it has also created more shared concerns as important subjects of inquiry. Challenges now are to serve both enduring and new spheres of the field that are afforded by international and domestic developments. Both ASPA and PAR are striving to do that. Globalization of public administration opens a world of opportunities today. Localization, as a fundamental of constitutional democracy, is a priority internationally, presenting an engaging paradox of global attention to both place and planet. That is linked in this commentary to the classic democracy-bureaucracy quandary that has constructively challenged public administration. While arrays of other important subjects, old and new, need to command attention in PAR, these are linked in this analysis to today's theory and practice of interdependent facilitative states to assess how the journal serves its responsibilities.
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DEVELOPMENT AND COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTUREPublic Administration Quarterly
Vol. 20, No. 3 (FALL, 1996)
, pp. 343-364 (22 pages)
Published By: SPAEF
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Abstract
Public administration is as old as human civilization and development administration has been an integral component of historical administrative traditions. In fact, development administration has always been a thriving subfield of public administration. While comparative public administration as a field of study is a more recent enterprise, its origin may also be traced to the ancient time. Both development and comparative components have constituted the twin fields of public administration theoretically and practically. Their development as fields of study has proliferated since World War II and reached a peak during the 1960s with the Comparative Administration Group (CAG) under Fred Riggs' leadership and the Ford Foundation's sponsorship. Despite major achievements, comparative and development administration experienced a major decline in both academic and funding supports in the 1970s. However, a resurgence of interest in both subfields of public administration has emerged since the 1980s and the number of major scholarly works in these areas is impressively increasing. This trend will continue with significant contributions to the knowledge in public administration as the new millennium approaches. This article reviews briefly the past and present situation of the twin fields and discusses a number of trends, developments, and issues that will shape these subfields of public administration in the future. It is argued that, in the future, public administration will be both global and comparative.
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Public Administration Quarterly is a general journal publishing single-article manuscripts and symposia in all areas of public administration, and is committed to the consistent use of the blind-review process in making publishing decisions.
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The Southern Public Administration Education Foundation, Inc. (SPAEF) is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The SPAEF's purpose is to develop and to disseminate information in the fields of public administration and management.
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