Two-Way Empowerment:Journal of Public Management and the Development of Chinese Public Management Discipline in the Past 20 Years
With the deepening of the process of Chinese-style modernization,it is necessary to summarize and reflect on the theory and practice of public management in China,to clarify and optimize the development di-rection of the discipline of public administration.Based on bibliometrics and text analysis,this paper systemat-ically combs 1077 academic papers published in Journal of Public Management in the past 20 years from the aspects of research fields,research methods and subject hotspots.It is found that the Journal of Public Man-agement has achieved the same frequency resonance and two-way empowerment with the development of Chi-nese public management discipline.The Journal of Public Management has a strong representation in witness-ing the evolution of the discipline from deduction to induction,theory to empirical,qualitative to quantitative and back to case study.It has significant foresight in leading the scientific research method of public manage-ment,the localization of theoretical core and the comprehensive construction of discipline in China.At the same time,the theoretical consciousness and innovation of Chinese public management discipline has also pro-moted the exploration of the discipline theory and practice of the Journal of Public Management.To summarize and review the Journal of Public Management and the development of Chinese public management discipline is of great value to the construction of high-quality academic journals and to promote the continuous progress of the discipline.
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