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The internal perceptions gap in European public administration: Understanding academic views of the discipline

Dion Curry Orcid Logo, Louis Bromfield, Jack Tudor

Administrative Theory & Praxis, Pages: 1 - 21

Swansea University Authors: Dion Curry Orcid Logo, Louis Bromfield, Jack Tudor

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/10841806.2026.2635780

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We assess the validity of perceived cleavages within Public Administration by examining the tensions between the focus of research and how the discipline is perceived by European academics, drawing on a survey of PA academics in 28 countries and a bibliometric analysis of over 18,500 pieces of acade...

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Published in: Administrative Theory & Praxis
ISSN: 1084-1806 1949-0461
Published: Informa UK Limited 2026
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71468
Abstract: We assess the validity of perceived cleavages within Public Administration by examining the tensions between the focus of research and how the discipline is perceived by European academics, drawing on a survey of PA academics in 28 countries and a bibliometric analysis of over 18,500 pieces of academic literature from European sources. We identify tensions in academic expectations about the breadth and depth of research and what is actually being written, along with tensions underlying theoretical versus applied approaches to research. However, healthy debate about methodological approaches to research and general agreement on the outward-looking nature of the discipline show areas of agreement in the discipline. These findings are significant in identifying the state of the PA discipline and can help shape how research is produced and utilized practically and academically, and how the discipline connects beyond the field.
Keywords: Perceptions gaps, public administration, bibliometrics, methods, practice
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funders: This research was supported by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under [grant agreement no. 266887 (Project COCOPS)].
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