Notes for Contributors
| Published date | 01 March 2005 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-3298.2005.00448.x |
| Date | 01 March 2005 |
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Public Administration is a major refereed journal with global circulation and global coverage.
The journal publishes articles on public administration, public policy and public management.
The journal’s reach is both inclusive and international and much of the work published is
comparative in nature. A high percentage of articles are sourced from the enlarging Europe and
cover all aspects of West and East European public administration. Public Administration was
founded in 1922.
AIMS
The journal has three objectives:
• To stimulate scholarly and practitioner dialogue in public administration, public
management and policy analysis.
• To encourage critical, comparative analysis, especially of European, Commonwealth and
American public administration.
• To publish articles which are theoretically rigorous and of a broad and vivid current
interest.
Public Administration has an eminent and international editorial board drawn from Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK and
the USA.
EDITORIAL STATEMENT
Editorial policy is flexible. Because Public Administration is multi-disciplinary, we aim to publish
articles on all aspects of public administration, public management and public policy irrespective
of academic discipline, country of origin or intellectual perspective. We will encourage submis-
sions from law, economics and management as well as political science. Equally, we welcome
manuscripts, other than descriptive case studies that do not address either a common problem or
a theoretical issue of wide interest, from all European countries, not just EU member states,
and we strive to avoid the common bias towards northern Europe. We are especially keento
publish papers from Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Greece, and Italy. We will referee
manuscripts in French and German as well as English. Authors will translate their manuscripts
only on acceptance. However, we will publish the journal in English because we believe this is the
best way of drawing the work of European scholars to the attention of an inter national audience.
And for this audience, it is essential all articles meet the criteria of theoretical rigour and broad
current interest. We welcome contributions on developments such as hollowing-out, governance,
post-modernism, new institutionalism and cultural theory. However, we also welcome submis-
sions on the traditional topics of public administration such as constitutional and administrative
law and administrative history. This approach to the subject is widespread in, for example,
France, Germany and Italy and we believe these scholars can also meet our stated aims. Articles
need not be comparative in the strict sense, but to speakto academics throughout Europe, as well
as an international audience, all contributions must develop broad arguments and themes.
MANUSCRIPTS
Public Administration requires that authors submit manuscripts online. Full guidance on how
to do this can be found on our website (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/padm_
guidelines.pdf).
The editors will welcome articles on any aspect of public administration which meets our
stated aims. Articles for the ‘Main Articles’ section and ‘European Forum’ should be 6–8,000
words long. Articles for ‘Public Management’ and ‘Review Articles’ should be 4,000 words.
‘Notes’ should be no more than 2,000 words. Rejected manuscripts are not returned. Manu-
scripts will be sent to referees for comment. In all cases the editor’s decision will be final.
Correspondence relating to previously published material is encouraged as long as its
principal aim is to improve accuracy and refine or refute an argument.
Submission of an article means it has not been published elsewhere, nor is it under consideration
for publication elsewhere. Authors of articles accepted for publication will be asked to assign their
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