Public Administration Review: The First Fifty Years
回顾《公共行政评论》创刊五十年历程，指出该期刊在主题、方法和作者多样性上无与伦比，是唯一汇聚公共行政各类人群和利益的公共事务期刊。
In observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Public Administration Review (PAR), it is appropriate to examine what has made this journal so special over the years. The picture that emerges from such an assessment of the Review is that it has presented a wide range of subject matter, methodologies, and people unrivaled by any other journal in public administration or policy and perhaps by any professional journal dealing with public affairs. It is the only public affairs journal that has accepted as its primary task the challenge of bringing together virtually all of the kinds of people and interests involved in public administration. The issues it has confronted range from the contemporary to the classical; its perspectives reach from local government levels through the international; and the analytic approaches vary from survey research to technical discussions of administrative technique, to essays in public law and political theory. PAR's articles have looked forward to challenges faced; back in time at the people, ideas, and events that have contributed to current conditions; and inward at the field and the society to understand both successes and unmet challenges. Just as the Review itself has from time to time reflected on the history of the field, it is fitting in this anniversary year to consider the development of PAR.