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ABSTRACT
This article evaluates the Journal of Public Affairs Education’s (JPAE) contribution during its first twenty-five years to the study of international and comparative public affairs education by looking at the 59 articles published that examine this topic in an international context. It uses a qualitative, iterative approach to summarize their themes of the 59 articles, and to categorize and display the different comparative emphases and public affairs education topics treated in them. It presents some quantitative data on the number of articles by category and by annual publication trend. It uses the results of this analysis to assess JPAE’s overall contribution in the international context of public affairs and to make suggestions for the future in this area.
Notes
1. The author realizes that not all whose work is categorized here will agree with the categories selected or the categorization of their articles. Even so, it is hoped they will think that, as Bertrand Russell in his History of Western Philosophy said of Hegel, “This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences.”
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Bruce J. Perlman
Bruce J. Perlman is Director and Regents’ Professor of the School of Public Administration at the University of New Mexico. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education in 2006.