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Tanzania Public Service College, Tabora, Tanzania

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This paper presents the locus and focus of public administration research in Tanzania through an assessment of articles published in the Journal of Public Sector Management (JPSM) from 2011 to 2016. A content analysis of 31 articles, guided by the research topic variable and comparative analysis of the categories of unit standards for public administration and management and the “Practices for Effective Local Government” developed by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) was invoked. The findings indicate the heavy slant (96.62%) towards practice-oriented research at the expense of theory development. Apart from providing reasons for this slant, it is recommended in this paper that editors and authors of JPSM should include topics and themes that focus on theory and research so as to restore the erstwhile glory of public administration intellectual predominance and its foundations.

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 public administration, research, theory, public sector

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Journal of US-China Public Administration, May 2017, Vol. 14, No. 5, 245-253

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