scholarly journals Institutional Requirements for Academic Research in Public Administration

1989 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Kraemer ◽  
James L. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Academic Research

scholarly journals Qualitative Insider Research in a Government Institution: Reflections on a Study of Policy Capacity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobby Thomas Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Insider Research ◽  
Policy Capacity ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Government Institution

Embarking on a qualitative Ph.D. research project in public administration is often daunting for novice researchers. For those students who consider adopting an emic or insider approach for their research, the ethical, methodological, and analytical challenges that lay ahead may seem insurmountable at times. In this article, I reflect on my experience as a Ph.D. student completing qualitative research with my colleagues to study policy capacity in a provincial government in Canada. I review how I constructed an ethical framework by integrating policy from Research Ethics Boards and government. Throughout the article, I deal primarily with ethical considerations and the personal and professional tensions associated with insider research. In addition to providing an overview of the literature on insider and emic research, I present ethical protocols that student-practitioners in other settings should consider when completing academic research with their colleagues in government institutions. Overall, the risks one must mitigate and minimize when completing insider research in government institutions are not substantially different from insider research in private institutions. While insider approaches in the study of public administration are not without their unique challenges, they do offer great potential in broadening and deepening emic knowledge of public administration practice.

Practitioner Envy and Construction of the Other in Public Administration

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 1403-1423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad A. Nisar
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Authentic Identity

This article focuses on the personal dimension of the identity crisis in public administration and its impact on academic research. Devoid of a socially recognizable secure academic identity, practitioner represents the closest to an authentic identity for the public administration researcher. This identification with the practitioner comes at a price and leads to the treatment of “public” as the Other in public administration research. Drawing insights from Said’s treatment of the concept of the Other, various dimensions of the discourses of power and knowledge in public administration which lead to categorization of the public as the Other are discussed.

scholarly journals Understanding the Meaning of Concepts Across Domains Through Collocation Analysis: An Application to the Study of Red Tape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Kaufmann ◽  
Richard F J Haans
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
The Media ◽  
Societal Problems

Abstract Public administration scholarship is facing a crisis of legitimacy, as academic research is viewed as both increasingly irrelevant for practice and methodologically underdeveloped. In this study, we put forward a so-called collocation analysis approach, which is a useful tool for studying the meaning of key concepts in public administration and (re)focusing academic research agendas to salient societal problems by identifying how concepts are talked about in different domains. To illustrate our approach, we assess the meaning of red tape in academia, policy-making, and the media. Our dataset consists of 255 academic articles, 2,179 US Congressional Records, and 37,207 US newspaper articles mentioning red tape. We find that red tape has specific connotations in each domain, which limits the extent to which these domains are being bridged. Using the insights from our analysis, we develop a red tape research agenda that aims for more relevant and rigorous knowledge generation and conclude by setting out implications and ways forward for public administration research at large.

Start with the Problem: Establishing Research Relevance with Integrative Public Administration

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia L Carboni ◽  
Todd Dickey ◽  
Stephanie Moulton ◽  
Sean O’keefe ◽  
Rosemary O’leary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Widespread Implementation ◽  
Field Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Agendas

Abstract A key question of each Minnowbrook has been how public administration scholarship can be relevant to practice (Carboni and Nabatchi 2019; Nabatchi and Carboni 2019; O’Leary, Van Slyke, and Kim 2010). This question remains salient today, as public administration scholarship is increasingly distant from the challenges identified by practitioners. Academic research agendas are often disconnected from the social issues and challenges of public governance. Field norms incentivize and exacerbate this cleavage. As a result, past calls for more practice-oriented scholarship lack widespread implementation. In this essay, we propose modest shifts in how academic research is conducted to link it with problems, issues, and opportunities identified by the public service practitioners and professional communities. We refer to this shift as Integrative Public Administration. We also identify and make suggestions about how to change some field level conditions that hamper the shift to Integrative Public Administration.

scholarly journals Further Research is Required to Determine Which Database Products Best Support Research in Public Administration

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
David Hook
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Business Source Premier ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Academic Search

A review of: Tucker, James, Corey. “Database Support for Research in Public Administration.” Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 24.1 (2005): 47-60. Objective – To examine the extent to which six commercial database products support student and faculty research in the area of public administration. Design – Bibliometric study. Setting – Academic library in the United States. Subjects – Six commercial business-related database products were examined: Proquest’s ABI/INFORM Global edition (ABI), EBSCO’s Business Source Premier (BSP), Gale’s General BusinessFile ASAP (GBF), EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier (ASP), EBSCO’s Expanded Academic Index (EAI) and Proquest’s International Academic Research Library (ARL). Three of the databases (ABI, BSP, GBF) were chosen because they address the management, human resource, and financing elements of public administration. The other three (ASP, EAI, ARL) were included because of their multidisciplinary coverage. Methods – A list of journal titles covering public administration was assembled from the Institute of Scientific Information’s Social Sciences Citation Index and previously published lists of recommended journals in the field. The author then compared the compiled list of journal titles against the journal titles indexed by the six database products. He further analyzed the results by level of journal coverage (abstract only, full-text, and full-text with embargo) and subject area based on categories described in Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. Main Results – The study found that three of the six database products --EAI, BSP, and ARL -- provide indexing for the greatest number of public administration journals contained in the compiled list. EIA and ARL cover the greatest number of those that are full-text journals, while BSP and ASP cover the greatest number of those full-text journals limited by publisher embargoes. Conclusion – The author concludes that of the six databases examined, EAI, BSP, and ARL are the best for public administration research, based on their strength in the subject areas of public administration and public finance. The author also recommends that librarians in the field of public administration “carefully evaluate each database to see which one best fits the needs of the library and patrons” (56).

The knowledge-building process of public administration research: a comparative perspective between Brazil and North American contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 83 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 99-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alketa Peci ◽  
Marcelo Fornazin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
North American ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Cognitive Orientations

Assessments of public administration research in the Global South are relatively scarce, although they are relevant in moving beyond a North–South dichotomy in understanding the knowledge-building process of public administration. In this article, we apply a content analysis to 592 Brazilian publications in order to assess the subjects of the studies, their cognitive orientations, their methodological strategies, and their institutional aspects, and compare these results with previous evaluations of North American publications. Our findings indicate that a “North American way of doing research” is gaining ground as the legitimate way of doing public administration research in Brazil, despite a research agenda that reflects subjects of practical relevance to the Brazilian public sector. Such intellectual mimesis, associated with the existence of a weak and unequal institutional network for academic research, may influence the “parochialism” of public administration research. Points for practitioners The research reveals that the subjects of public administration publications also reflect the dynamics of public administration as a field of practice, reflected in topics of empirical interest to the Brazilian public sector that are cognitively and, partly, methodologically discussed from a North American perspective. The similar trends in the cognitive dimensions that both regions share may also recursively reflect the diffusion of public sector reforms from developed to developing countries, particularly as a consequence of New Public Management, which has also taken place in countries like Brazil.

scholarly journals The regional research policy of the Austrian federal states

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (54) ◽  
pp. 227-241
Author(s):  
Thomas Eisenhut
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Regional Research ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Specific Working

AbstractThis research focuses on the regional research policy of the federal states. The paper analyses the existing academic research sources of the regional research policies and answers questions of the regions's analysis.The methodology uses specific working papers essential for the European region's and sources of the Austrian public administration. Concerning the empirical part, this paper uses qualitatively focussed structured guideline surveys. The research will facilitate discussions on aspects of methodological approaches to research, data capture and analysis, perceived research outcomes and contributions to the body of knowledge.Essential is the separation of subvention policy, which means the matter of distinct locational competition and it occurs the establishment of co-production within the regions to present itself mutual externally to persist in the global contest.The findings indicate that even through this concept for success is highly influenced by funding's that are not very controllable by the regions, such as the federal states, and it is a positive prototype for prospective similar cases.

Benefits and Characteristics of Mentoring Students and Young Professionals

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristal Mills
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Workplace Retention

Abstract Mentoring has long been believed to be an effective means of developing students' clinical, research, and teaching skills to become competent professionals. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has developed two online mentoring programs, Student to Empowered Professional (S.T.E.P. 1:1) and Mentoring Academic Research Careers (MARC), to aid in the development of students. This paper provides a review of the literature on mentoring and compares and contrasts mentoring/mentors with clinical supervision/preceptors. Characteristics of effective mentors and mentees are offered. Additionally, the benefits of clinical mentoring such as, teambuilding in the workplace, retention of new staff, leadership development, and improved job satisfaction are discussed.

Exploring Barriers to Doctoral Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders: Insights From Practicing Professionals

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1552-1563
Author(s):  
Denise A. Tucker ◽  
Mary V. Compton ◽  
Sarah J. Allen ◽  
Robert Mayo ◽  
Celia Hooper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Advance Research ◽  
Doctor Of Philosophy

Purpose The intended purpose of this research note is to share the findings of a needs assessment online survey of speech and hearing professionals practicing in North Carolina to explore their interest in pursuing a research-focused PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) and to document their perceptions of barriers to pursing a PhD in CSD. In view of the well-documented shortage of doctor of philosophy (PhD) faculty to attract, retain, and mentor doctoral students to advance research and to prepare future speech and hearing professionals, CSD faculty must assess the needs, perceptions, and barriers prospective students encounter when considering pursuing a doctoral research degree in CSD. Method The article describes the results of a survey of 242 speech and hearing professionals to investigate their interest in obtaining an academic research-focused PhD in CSD and to solicit their perceived barriers to pursuing a research doctoral degree in CSD. Results Two thirds of the respondents (63.6%) reported that they had considered pursuing a PhD in CSD. Desire for knowledge, desire to teach, and work advancement were the top reasons given for pursuing a PhD in CSD. Eighty-two percent of respondents had no interest in traditional full-time study. Forty-two percent of respondents indicated that they would be interested in part-time and distance doctoral study. The barriers of time, distance, and money emerged as those most frequently identified barriers by respondents. Conclusion The implications inform higher education faculty on how they can best address the needs of an untapped pool of prospective doctoral students in CSD.

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