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Chinese Public Administration Review


eISSN: 25731483 | ISSN: 15396754 | Current volume: 15 | Current issue: 2 Frequency: Quarterly

Chinese Public Administration Review (CPAR) has been the elite international academic platform for high-quality theoretical and empirical work addressing important public administration and policy issues for 20 years. Although initially focused on the Chinese and Asian contexts, CPAR increasingly publishes research from international and comparative settings by scholars worldwide. Published quarterly by the Center for Chinese Public Administration Research and the School of Government at Sun Yat-sen University, CPAR is committed to developing diverse and rigorous research on all aspects of the field. The journal has no disciplinary or methodological bias other than an insistence on academic excellence. All manuscripts are subjected to a double-blind peer-review process before acceptance and publication, most within one and half months. CPAR is currently covered by the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI).

Backfile’s note: The CPAR issues from 2002 to 2017 were published by the School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University at Newark, and the issues from 2018 to 2020 were published by the Institute for Public Service, Suffolk University.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Launched in 2002, Chinese Public Administration Review is an international and interdisciplinary journal with a strong editorial team consisting of scholars from China, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the Netherlands. The journal seeks to publish organizational, administrative, managerial, and policy-based research that improves our understanding of the public sector and welcomes in-depth reviews and book reviews that aim to advance the field’s scholarship. CPAR covers diverse topics in public administration and public policy broadly defined, including but not limited to:

  • Intellectual History of Public Administration
  • Government Reform
  • Administrative Law
  • Comparative Public Administration
  • Methods
  • Public Policy Implementation
  • Public Sector Innovation
  • Public Sector Human Resource Management
  • Public Performance Management
  • Public Budgeting and Finance
  • Nonprofit Management and Civil Society
  • Urban Management and Planning
  • E-government and Smart Cities
FOUNDING EDITOR (2002-2020)
Marc Holzer Suffolk University, USA
Editor-in-Chief
Ankui Tan Sun Yat-sen University, China
Editors
Qiushi Wang Sun Yat-sen University, China
Hongtao Yi Florida State University, USA
Associate Editors
Can Chen Georgia State University, USA
Qian Hu George Mason University, USA
Alex Ingrams Leiden University, Netherlands
Liang Ma Renmin University of China, China
Markie McBrayer University of Idaho, USA
Wenxuan Yu University of Xiamen, China
Yueping Zheng Sun Yat-sen University, China
Section Editors
Gang Chen University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
Heungsuk Choi Korea University, South Korea
Tsai-Tsu Su National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China
Bo Wen University of Macau, Macau, China
Assistant Editors
Hanjin Mao University of Houston-Downtown, USA
Kayla Schwoerer Rutgers University-Newark, USA
Chengxin Xu Seattle University, USA
Production Editors
Dongfang Gaozhao University of Dayton, USA
Ruiying Li Sun Yat-sen University, China
Hang Qi University of Missouri, USA
Editorial Board Members
Guoxian Bao Lanzhou University, China
Jing Bao Chinese Public Administration Society, USA
Evan Michael Berman Fundazion Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Peter B. Boorsma University of Twente, Netherlands
Barry Bozeman Arizona State University, USA
Hon S. Chan City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Bin Chen City University of New York-Baruch College, USA
Zhenming Chen Xiamen University, China
Gregory Chow Princeton University, USA
Jeanne Marie Col City University of New York-John Jay College, USA
Terry L. Cooper University of Southern California, USA
Keyong Dong Renmin University of China, China
Kenneth W. Foster Concordia College, USA
Xiaoping Gao Chinese Public Administration Society, China
Xue Gao Florida State University, USA
Mary Hamilton University of Nebraska, USA
Daniel Harris Overseas Development Institute Politics and Government, United Kindom
Ian Holliday The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Yilin Hou Syracuse University, USA
Kun Huang University of New Mexico, USA
Yun-Won Hwang Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Chung-yuang Jan National Chengchi University, Taiwan, China
Edward T. Jennings University of Kentucky, USA
Taijun Jin Nanjing Audit University, China
Chan-Gon Kim Vice Mayor Central District, South Korea
Pan S. Kim Yonsei University-Wonju, South Korea
Donald E. Klingner University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Zhiyong Lan Arizona State University, USA
Huafang Li University of Pittsburgh, USA
Weiwei Lin Rutgers University-Newark, USA
M. Jae Moon Yonsei University, South Korea
Martin Painter City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Jun Peng University of Arizona, USA
Suzanne Piotrowski Rutgers University-Newark, USA
Allan Rosenbaum Florida International University, USA
David Rosenbloom American University, USA
E.S. Savas City University of New York-Baruch College, USA
Ruowen Shen Wichita State University, USA
Zixiang (Alex) Tan Syracuse University, USA
Tian Tang Florida State University, USA
King T. Tsao Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Richard Walker City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Shaoguang Wang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Jiannan Wu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Shuzhang Xia Sun Yat-sen University, China
Hua Xu East Carolina University, USA
Ping Xu The University of Rhode Island, USA
Xiaolin Xu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Lan Xue Tsinghua University, China
Kaifeng Yang Renmin University of China, China
Litianqing Yang Sun Yat-sen University, China
Meng Yuan Chongqing University, China
Chengfu Zhang Renmin University of China, China
Mengzhong Zhang Gannon University in Pennsylvania, USA
Nandiyang Zhang Renmin University of China, China
Yahong Zhang Rutgers University - Newark, USA
Zhirong Zhao Zhejiang University, China
Guanghui Zhou Jilin University, China
Ling Zhu University of Houston, USA
Qianwei Zhu Fudan University, China
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  • Scopus

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