Public Administration in Germany: Problems and Potential of a Fragmented Community

Michael W. Bauer and Stefan Becker

International Journal of Public Administration, 2019, vol. 42, issue 11, 950-960

Abstract: What is the discipline of Public Administration (PA) ultimately for? The German community has recently entered new deliberations on this recurrent question, with several papers and workshops addressing the present and future of their national discipline. This article uses original survey data to introduce the views of the German community at large and analyzes intellectual commonalities against a background of institutional fragmentation. It scrutinizes preferences for epistemological positions, research aims, and publication strategies, while also investigating potentials for cooperation through interdisciplinary exchange and theoretical or thematic concordance. The results show a community in intellectual crisis. Faced with fears of decreasing reputation and influence, German PA is still divided about its purpose and separated by disciplinary borders.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2018.1560318

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