Public Administration: Journals

Published 9 times/year, seeks to further the understanding of public and human service organizations, their administrative processes, and their effect on society.

ARPA focuses on public administration broadly defined, encompassing organization and management studies, leadership, performance measurement and management systems, budgeting and financial management, network governance, and nonprofit management, among other topics.

It covers executive, legislative, judicial and quasi-judicial functions at all three levels of Canadian government.

Governance provides a forum for the theoretical and practical discussion of executive politics, public policy, administration, and the organization of the state.

IJPA is an international, research-driven, peer-reviewed, publication aimed at exploring the latest developments in public administration and management – translating theory for practice and practice into theory.

IPMJ features work from scholars around the world who conduct research in the areas of public management and government reform, comparative public administration, organizational theory, and organizational behavior.

IRAS encourages reflection on international comparisons, new techniques and approaches in governance, the dialogue between academics and practitioners, and debates about the future of public management and public administration.

This journal encompasses issues and practices in policy analysis and public management.

Focusing on urban research and policy analysis, the Journal of Urban Affairs provides a multidisciplinary perspective on issues important to cities.

Interdisciplinary journal for nonprofit sector research dedicated to enhancing our knowledge of nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and voluntarism.

Reports on current developments in the field of public administration.

An outlet for theoretically and empirically grounded research on policy process and policy analysis. More specifically, the goal is to publish articles that advance public policy theory, explicitly articulate methods of data collection and analysis, and provide clear descriptions of how their work advances the literature.

The journal publishes articles on all facets of public administration, public policy and public management.

Public Administration and Development (PAD) has been reviewing and assessing the practice of public administration at the local, regional, national and international levels where it is directed to managing development processes in low and medium income countries.

A general journal publishing single-article manuscripts and symposia in all areas of public administration.

Serves both academics and practitioners interested in the public sector and public sector management.

Serves as a forum for the communication of research and experiences on all facets of government finance and provides meaningful exchange between research from universities, private and nonprofit research institutes, practitioners in public financial markets, government agencies, and the experience of those who practice government budgeting and finance.

A professional forum devoted to economic research, theory, and policy applications, focusing on a variety of allocation, distribution, and stabilization functions within the public sector economy.

Public Money & Management is a popular review of finance, policy and management issues in the public service and regulated industries.

Public Personnel Management (PPM) is published specifically for human resource executives and managers in the public sector.

Seeks to advance discussions between various disciplines about regulation and governance, promote the development of new theoretical and empirical understanding, and serve the growing needs of practitioners for a useful academic reference.

Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, presents timely, rigorous scholarship on human resource management in public service organizations.

tate and Local Government Review (SLGR), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, provides a forum for the exchange of ideas among practitioners and academics that contributes to the knowledge and practice of state and local government politics, policy, and management.

Urban Studies is the leading international journal for urban scholarship. Since its inception in 1964, the journal has remained at the forefront of intellectual and policy debates on the city, and has hosted ground-breaking contributions from across the full range of social science disciplines.