"Mainstream" Public Administration over Time: A Topical Content Analysis of Public Administration Review

This article focuses on the question, how have the theoretical and substantive concerns of the public administration community changed over time? in other words: What is mainstream public administration and how has it changed? To answer this question, we analyzed the contents of a sample of over 50 years of PAR articles. The Classification Scheme Content analysis presupposes the existence of a scheme of content categories for use in text...