Enhancing methodological reporting in public administration: The functional equivalents framework

• Main Authors: MELE, Valentina, ESTEVE, Marc, LEE, Seulki, BEL, Germa, CAPPELLARO, Giulia, PETROVSKY, Nicolai, OSPINA, Sonia M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Methodologies; reporting; research methods; research traditions; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3313; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4570/viewcontent/EnhancingMethodologicalReporting_2020_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Public administration scholarship reflects a multidisciplinary field in which many theoretical perspectives coexist. However, one of the dark sides of such theoretical pluralism is methodological fragmentation. It may be hard to assess the research quality and to engage with the findings from studie...