Halduskultuur

Aims & Scope

Public administration is, as Woodrow Wilson writes in 1887, government in action.

Government comes into existence, according to Aristotle’s famous phrase, for the sake of life – for our protection –, yet it exists for the good life.

The good life is the reason we have governments.

Can we have a science about good government actions – about good public administration?

Public administration as a discipline of contemporary scholarly inquiry emerges precisely from the need to design better government actions and from the need to know what makes government actions better, and why.

This is the beginning of Kameralwissenschaften in 17th century continental Europe epitomized by the publication of Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff’s Der Teutsche Fürstenstaat in1656.

This tradition climaxes in 19th century German Staatswissenschaften, which is, however, also a decidedly Estonian tradition: some of the most important representatives of the late 19th century German Staatswissenschaften (Wagner, Lexis, Stieda, Laspeyres, Bücher) worked at one point in their career in Estonia.

Administrative Culture firmly positions itself within this tradition which, by default, means openness to other traditions, schools and also cultures and languages.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.154

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	16

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	24249

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	5

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• From decentralization to re-centralization: Tendencies of regional policy and inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Bradley

• Integrating regional development and planning into “spatial planning” in Finland: The untapped potential of the Kainuu experiment

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Eva, Hanna Merikki

• Multilevel cross-border governance in the Czech-Saxon borderland: working together or in parallel?

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Martin

• Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Its Ideological Antecedents and Policy Manifestations from Carl Schmitt’s Political Economy of Governance

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Bonn

• Indicators for Public Sector Innovations: Theoretical Frameworks and Practical Applications

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Rainer, Aleksandrs, Veiko, Piret

• Building an Agile Government: Its Possibilities, Challenges, and New Tasks

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Kil Pyo, Pan Suk

• International Standards and ICT Projects in Public Administration: Introducing Electronic Voting in Norway, Estonia and Switzerland Compared

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Nadja, Robert, Gregor, Dirk-Hinnerk

• How to reap the benefits of the “digital revolution”? Modularity and the commons

  Citation: 4

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• The Use of Social Media in Public Administration: the Case of Slovakian Local Self-government

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Ondrej

• Narratives on Complexity: Interpretations on Local Government Leadership Change

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Arto, Henna, Jenni

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