Administración pública comparada: conceptos, métodos y campo de investigación

Addressing Comparative Public Administration (CPA) article gives an overview of the history, subject matters, concepts, methods as well as of major research areas and findings It points at the dynamic development CPA has recently experienced as evidenced by the upsurge of thematically relevant publications (such as handbooks) and of pertinent (international) research networks and institutions. In a concluding assessment it is argued that, on the one hand, CPA conclusion it is t is argued that, on the one hand, CPA has attained an (in the words of the late Christopher Pollitt) ‘remarkable vitality’ while, on the other hand, important conceptual and methodological problems still need to be solved in CPA research.