Reflections on AJPA and Other Public Administration Journals

I welcome the invitation of the current AJPA Editors, Glyn Davis and John Wanna, to write these reflections to accompany the decennial index and Catherine Althaus's article surveying what we have been talking about in AJPA over the past decade. In this endnote I want to say something about the mission of public administration journals (including AJPA) , to offer a few comments about the editorial function, and also to refer to some exercises in comparing public administration journals. It may be appropriate to begin with a few facts about AJPA itself.