The American Review
of Public Administration

Editor's Statement

The American Review of Public Administration (ARPA) aspires to be the premier academic journal in the field of public affairs and public administration. ARPA has consistently been rated as one of the elite public policy and administration journals.

By way of updating our readers on several developments, ARPA has been included for several years in both the print and electronic versions of Social Science Citation Index. ARPA is one of only a few American public administration and public policy journals to hold that distinction. ARPA is also abstracted or indexed in 19 other sources.

The accessibility of ARPA has also improved dramatically through online availability. If your institution's library has a subscription ARPA the contents of the journal can be accessed electronically on your desktop computer through any of the major electronic subscription services you library may use.

These advances build on ARPA's solid base as an assiduously peer-reviewed journal. All manuscripts are subjected to our blind peer reviewed process prior to publication. ARPA's acceptance rate averaged 17% for manuscripts submitted in 1998, 1999, and 2000.

Certainly, one of ARPA's strengths in recent years has been its Book Review section, which for the last 6 years has been under the able leadership of Dr. Donald E. Klingner of Florida International University. Beginning with this issue, Dr. Milan J. Dluhy of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington assumes direction of the Book Review section. Professor Dluhy plans to build on the strength of ARPA's important topic in the field. We look forward to further enhancement of the Book Review section under Professor Klingner's excellent editorial stewardship of ARPA's Book Review section.

ARPA features articles that address rapidly emerging issues in public affairs and public administration and is open to both traditional and nontraditional approaches. Of particular interest are theory-based, empirical research; reviews or syntheses of research; and conceptual or theoretical Discussions on or over the boundaries of traditional public affairs and public administration.

Guy B. Adams
Andrew D. Glassberg
John Clayton Thomas

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