Teaching Public Administration

Editor: Michael Hunt, Sheffield Hallam University
Editorial Board: Professor Victor Ayeni, University of the North, South Africa
  Professor Richard Chapman, University of Durham
  Dame Anne Mueller
  Professor David Wilson, De Montfort University
Editorial Assistant: Jenny Chambers

AIMS and SCOPE

Teaching Public Administration is published twice a year, Spring and Autumn, by the Policy Research Centre, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, on behalf of the Public Administration Committee of the Joint University Council.

The journal provides for the analysis and review of approaches, concepts and practices in public administration teaching and training. Articles which consider innovative teaching methods and applications, analyse teaching and training needs in public administration, case studies and teaching aids will be of particular interest. Bibliographical notes, literature reviews and relevant book reviews will also be welcomed.

Detailed notes for contributors are set out below.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

All orders and editorial enquiries to:

Michael Hunt,
Editor,
Teaching Public Administration,
Policy Research Centre,
Sheffield Business School,
Stoddart Building,
City Campus,
Sheffield,
S1 1WB.
Telephone: 0114 225 4471.
Email: m.c.hunt@shu.ac.uk

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Manuscripts are welcome from teachers and trainers in public administration and public sector management, in universities, colleges and training institutions, and from practitioners.

  1. Two copies of any article or note should be submitted to Michael Hunt, Editor, Teaching Public Administration, Policy Research Centre, Sheffield Business School, City Campus, Stoddart Building, City Campus, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK. Papers should not normally exceed 5,000 words.
  2. Original papers (not published or not simultaneously submitted to another journal) will be considered for publication. Copyright for published papers should be vested in the publisher.
  3. Three copies of the journal issue in which the paper appears will be provided free of charge.
  4. Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced with wide margins, on one side of the paper only. If possible, we would welcome material on IBM compatible disks, using Microsoft Word. If that is the case, then the disk plus one typed copy is sufficient.
  5. Footnotes should be listed together at the end of the paper.
  6. The author's name and affiliation should appear below the title.
  7. All references should be arranged in alphabetical order and grouped together at the end of the paper.

    Journal references should be given as follows:
    Blowers, A. (1977), 'Checks and Balances - the Politics of Minority Government', Public Administration, 55:3, pp 305-16.

    Book references should be given as follows:
    Robertson, K. G. (1982), Public Secrets, Basingstoke: Macmillan

    In the text, references should be cited by the author's name and the year in parentheses (Smith, 1979).

  8. It is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission to quote material which has appeared in another publication.
  9. Manuscripts will not be returned except at the author's specific request.