Envisioning Public Administration as a Scholarly Field in 2020: Toward Global and Comparative Administrative Theorizing

摘要

Let's be frank: public administration as a scholarly field is not facing a crisis, whether existential or mundane. It is too comfortable for that. Career paths and status symbols for its academic practitioners are quite predictable, and there are no signs (department closings, research funding drying up) of an impending institutional apocalypse. Given what some other parts of the academy profess to know about human nature and institutional change, the best prediction for the state of the field in 2020 might be, very roughly, what it is today.