Updated Instructions for Authors and Reviewers of PAR Country Study Submissions
《公共行政评论》编辑部根据审稿人反馈，细化了国别研究的投稿指南，明确了国别研究应关注一国公共行政的教学与研究现状及其与政府的关系，而非单纯的研究论文或教学法。
In light of various observations from reviewers who read and commented upon country studies, the PAR editorial team has refined the guidelines for these country studies. As published in our editorial “Invitations for Country Studies in Public Administration Review,” the editorial team of Public Administration Review (PAR) laid out a call for submissions to a new type of article that focuses on country-specific studies. As argued in this editorial, a mature study not only advances empirical research and welcomes conceptual pieces but also pays attention to epistemology, social ontology, and axiology. Public Administration (PA) has become a mature study (cf. Wagner and Raadschelders 2025) and it is our hope that these country studies contribute to the understanding of the state of the study and deepen our understanding of how the challenges that countries face are (dis)similar. For submitted country studies, note that PAR understands PA to include Public Policy (PP) as well as Political Science (PS). That is, while in the United States the study of PA (which, in the USA includes Public Management) (PM) is regarded as separate from PP and from PS, this is not the case in many other countries. Author(s) should be clear in their submission on whether and how this distinction does or does not exist in their country. For ease of writing, the following text uses the label of “PA” while expecting that country authors may or may not alter this label to include PP and/or PS for their country of focus. In general, a country study should not be regarded as a research article, nor as one that concerns only the teaching or pedagogies of PA. Instead, it is about the state of teaching and research in a particular country in relation to that larger national environment. A country study will follow one of two formats: The relation between the study of PA and the government in your country. See below for general elements relevant for each type of country study. Note that a country's study can cover many elements but is not expected to cover all elements. (Nota bene: For both general elements, recall the above understanding that in some countries, public administration, public policy, and political science are separable disciplines while in other countries, this is not the case. As such, for each mention of “PA” below, authors are encouraged to use the label that is most appropriate for their country). For option (a), on the state of the study of PA in your country, possible elements include: Attention to changes in the substance (topics) and the methodological approaches (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, etc.) over time in the study of PA For option (b), on the relation between the study of PA and government in your country, possible elements include: To what extent is the administrative past visible in the administrative present? (e.g., of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial times); but also, of monarchical or dictatorial periods followed by democracy or of democratic periods followed by more authoritarian governing systems. The author(s) should make sure that the length of the manuscript itself does not exceed 8000 words, but it is conceivable that they will present appendices that are referenced in the main body of the text. These appendices will be made available online. Nota bene: Author(s) are not expected to address all the topics listed above but can select among one or more that you consider most relevant and informative for an international audience. Reviewers will assess the quality of the manuscript, based on The authors declare no conflicts of interest.