Thread by @azfarnisar, Top PA journals remain primarily west centered. Hardly any research engaging with [...]

Top PA journals remain primarily west centered.
Hardly any research engaging with different dimensions of colonialism & neocolonialism is published in top PA journals. A thread about the state of affairs in top 4 PA journals & exemplars of such research in the 21st century...

In last 20 years, @PAReview,the top ranked PA journal,has only 5 articles that directly engage with colonialism/neocolonialism in depth.The best article (linked below) is by @NilimaGulrajani & @Global_Academic.Honorable mentions:Ali Farazmand & Sunil Tankha https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02489.x">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/...

Globalizing Public Administration: Today's Research and Tomorrow's Agenda

What is the relationship between public administration scholarship and the study of developing countries? This article answers this question by presenting the intellectual history of administrative...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02489.x

@JPART1991 has never published any article that directly engages with colonialism/neocolonialism in depth. The only article that comes close is a thoughtful article on comparative PA by Yilin Hou and colleagues from Minnowbrook-III https://academic.oup.com/jpart/article-abstract/21/suppl_1/i45/914111">https://academic.oup.com/jpart/art...

Case for Public Administration with a Global Perspective

Abstract. Globalization has been challenging the theory and practice of Public Administration at an unprecedented level. Major policy issues cross national bou

https://academic.oup.com/jpart/article-abstract/21/suppl_1/i45/914111

@PMReview_,currently the 2nd ranked journal, has 7 articles in 20 yrs that engage with colonialism in depth. The best, from a theoretical standpoint are, Mick Moore& #39;s work on political underdevelopment & Shamsul Haque& #39;s work on Citizen& #39;s Charter in India. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616670110050020">https://doi.org/10.1080/1...

Political Underdevelopment: What causes ‘bad governance’

(2001). Political Underdevelopment: What causes ‘bad governance’. Public Management Review: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 385-418.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14616670110050020

@PA_journal has 5 such articles. The best is the excellent article by Candler, Azevêdo & Albernaz on epistemic colonialism and its impact on global scholarship in PA with special focus on Latin America. Honorable mentions: Binderkrantz, Cyan & Morrell. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01842.x">https://doi.org/10.1111/j...

TOWARDS GLOBAL SCHOLARSHIP IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS

One can imagine two futures for public administration, public management and public service around the world. A first would be what we see as a continuation of the status quo: with public administr...

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01842.x

This is part of a systematic literature review I am currently doing. Happy to share data with interested scholars. People might disagree over the exact no. of such articles but the pattern holds. One possible explanation:scholars send less of such work to top PA journals.

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