公共管理科学研究方法应用的最新进展——基于国内公共管理顶尖刊物近五年的分析

Recent Progress in the Application of Scientific Research Methods in Public Administration—Based on the Analysis of Top Domestic Public Management Publications in the Past Five Years

摘要: 研究方法的变迁，对于观察一个学科的发展历程和发展趋势十分重要。研究对2018~2022年公共管理领域四份顶尖刊物共计样本文献1973篇进行统计分析，围绕研究范式、研究方法、数据收集方法、具体研究方法、使用软件等几个方面进行讨论。研究结果显示：国内公共管理领域在研究范式的使用上实证研究高于规范研究。实证研究中，国内对定性研究的使用频率是定量研究的两倍之多。进行国内外历时比较研究发现，国内外公共管理领域在研究方法上的使用都呈现出规范到实证，定性到定量的发展趋势。从截点比较看，国外在这个趋势上的发展进程要比国内快；从增速比较看，国内的发展速度要比国外快。

Abstract: The change of research methods is very important to observe the development course and trend of a discipline. A total of 1973 sample literatures from four top publications in the field of public administration from 2018 to 2022 were statistically analyzed and discussed from several aspects, such as research paradigm, research methods, data collection methods, specific research methods and the use of software. The results show that empirical research is higher than normative research in the use of research paradigm in domestic public administration. In empirical research, qualitative research is used twice as often as quantitative research in China. The research results of domestic and foreign diachronic comparison, it is found that the use of research methods in the field of public administration at home and abroad presents a trend of development from normative to empirical, qualitative to quantitative. From the point of comparison, the development process of foreign countries on this trend is faster than that of domestic; from the growth rate comparison, the domestic development speed is faster than the foreign country.