Whence Public Administration

That public administration and public affairs are derivative, multidisciplinary fields rather than self-sustaining disciplines becomes evident if we read between tables of James W. Douglas' recent report on scholarly productivity, Faculty, Graduate Student, and Graduate Productivity in Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs, published in September/October, 1996, issue of Public Administration Review. About half of 29 schools listed in his Table 5 as producing graduates who were most productive scholars do not appear in his Table 1 listing of 54 schools whose faculties were most productive of public administration and public affairs publications. This disjunction between educational source and institutional purveyor of scholarship is further illustrated by fact that scholars ranked 1.0 and 2.5 in productivity in a note to Table 6 sprouted from two such no-retail-sales schools, Yale and Chicago. This analysis of Douglas' report casts a shadow on his conclusion that the most productive schools tend to educate most productive... graduates. We may also note that half of these scholar-producing schools (Yale, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell) rank among top 22 political science programs in recent National Research Council (1995) study of graduate education. So it is a pity that Douglas had to exclude American Political Science Review and other basic disciplinary-focused journals from his view of public administration and public affairs publications. James F Guyot Professor Political Science and Public Affairs Baruch College The City University of New York

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