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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).

Topics in Public Administration

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 1 September 2025
      ISBN-13 9781009378710
      978-1009378710
      ISBN-10 1009378716
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      Organizational theory and behaviour

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      Book Synopsis
      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).

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