Aims & Scope

The Journal of Public Administration Kaduna State University (JOPAKASU, print ISSN 2805-3753) is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published twice a year, in June and December, by the Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, Kaduna State University. Its objective is to provide an open platform for the dissemination of research output, and to generate solutions to the challenges facing Nigeria's and Africa's quest for development. Articles are welcomed from academics, professionals and practitioners in public administration and in related fields of knowledge.

SUBJECT AREAS

• Public administration and governance — administrative theory and bureaucracy, democracy and good governance, accountability and transparency, e-governance and administrative reform, and the machinery of local government administration and its reform.
• Public policy — policy formulation, implementation and evaluation; agricultural, education, health, water, energy and social protection policy; intervention and empowerment programmes such as N-Power and the Anchor Borrowers Programme; and policy implementation in conflict-affected settings.
• Public financial management and taxation — budgeting and budget reform, internally generated revenue, tax administration and revenue accountability, audit and public sector performance, and the financial management of state and local government.
• Development administration — rural and community development, rural infrastructure, poverty reduction, food security, foreign direct investment, aid and remittances, financial inclusion and fintech, and the administration of development programmes.
• Security, conflict and disaster management — armed banditry and rural insecurity, climate-conflict displacement, human trafficking, emergency and disaster management, the role of traditional institutions in security, and the policing of communities.
• Human resource management and organisational behaviour in the public sector — motivation, job satisfaction, work environment, leadership and strategic leadership, organisational culture, and employee performance and wellbeing in public institutions.
• Comparative and international administration — comparative studies of administrative systems, bilateral relations and foreign policy, regional cooperation, and the administration of higher education in Nigeria and beyond.

METHODS: quantitative studies using survey, administrative or secondary data, with the population, sampling procedure, instrument and analytical technique stated; qualitative designs, including interview and case-study work, with the participants and analytical approach described; mixed-methods research; documentary and policy analysis grounded in identified sources; and conceptual or theoretical papers that develop an argument capable of being tested.

MANUSCRIPT TYPES: original research articles and review articles of seven to fifteen A4 pages, including references. Manuscripts are typed in Times New Roman 12 point at 1.5 line spacing, carry an abstract of not more than 250 words and a maximum of five keywords, and follow the APA 7th edition style for all citations and references. Manuscripts are submitted through the journal website as a Microsoft Word .docx file of not more than 10 MB, prepared for double-blind review: author names, degrees, affiliations and contact details are entered on the submission form and must not appear in the manuscript file.

READERSHIP: academics and postgraduate students in public administration, political science, development studies and the management sciences; civil servants and local government administrators; policy makers and legislators; staff of development agencies and non-governmental organisations; and practitioners working on governance, security and service delivery in Nigeria and across Africa.

OUT OF SCOPE: papers with no stated method, sample or data source; narrative descriptions of an agency, programme or policy with no analysis; opinion, advocacy and commentary pieces without evidence; consultancy or in-house reports and unrevised student project work; party-political material; studies of purely private-sector management with no public administration or public policy dimension; and manuscripts already published elsewhere or under consideration by another journal.