Public Management Review (PMR) has just completed its eighteenth volume. It commenced
publication in 1999 with Blair as prime minister of the United Kingdom and Clinton as …

In this article we examine the state of public management research, specifically focusing on
the scope of research and variety of methodologies pursued in the field. We use a sample of …

Are public management researchers sufficiently addressing the contemporary challenges
and changes in the real world of public management, including the challenges identified by …

How may public management be defined as an academic field? From what disciplinary
bases has public management evolved? What knowledge frameworks does public …

The author discusses the state of public management in the US in 2005, and suggests two
improvements. First, the relatively small cohort of scholars active in studying public …

The field of public management draws on a rich and varied trove of intellectual resources.
Applying scholarship and imagination, its students can recognize, interpret, and predict the …

If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.
Confining ourselves to practice, we may lose sight of basic principles, and when these have …

What are the big questions that scholars of public management should be attempting-
through their research-to answer? Robert D. Behn suggests three consciously prescriptive …

This article examines major trends and research questions that have emerged in public
management scholarship in North America over the last decade. This period offers evidence …

At the Berkeley conference, I organized my comments around some interesting questions
that George Frederickson had put to the panelists. I felt that I should try to respond to these …