Topics in Public Administration : Perspectives from Computational Social Sciences and Corpus Linguistics (Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration)

Walker, Richard M./ Zhang, Jiasheng/ Chandra, Yanto

Cambridge University Press（2025/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 108 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009571982
• DDC分類 351.072

Full Description

This inductive examination of the topics in the public administration literature using computational social science and corpus linguistics (17 journals, N=12,760 articles, 1991-2019) reveals a new landscape of public administration topics, changes in topics over time and their distribution: • Topic modelling of the stock of the whole corpus identifies 50 topics: the top ten topics included health care, federal government, performance management, environmental regulation, HRM and networks and accounted for just over a third of scholarship between 1991-2019. • Focal topics identified in individual journals identified similarities with popular topics in the whole corpus - networks, health care, HRM - and less frequently examined topics including gender and diversity and partnerships. • Analysis of topics over time shows a substantial flow in topics moving from a country and practice focus in the early stages of our study period to concepts such as governance, networks and citizens in the late stages (2015-2019).

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Methods and analytical procedure; 3. Topics in public administration; 4. Changes in topics in public administration; 5. Geography of topics in public administration; 6. Conclusions; Appendix; References.