About Public Administration and Policy

Aims and scope

Public Administration and Policy: An Asia-Pacific Journal (PAP) is devoted to the integration of theories and practice of public administration and management, with special emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. It aims at contributing to the improvements of the delivery and management of public services by highlighting issues, problems, and examples of efficient and innovative management practices. Academics, students, current and retired government officials, and practitioners in public administration and related fields are welcomed to contribute papers to this journal.

Journal information

PAP is a refereed journal jointly sponsored by the Hong Kong Public Administration Association and SPEED, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. From 2018 onwards, PAP will have online publication and global dissemination on the Emerald Insight platform.

PAP publishes 3 issues per annum.

When submitting a manuscript, authors will be taken to a service called Paperpal Preflight, an AI-driven tool that checks manuscripts against the journal's author guidelines. Authors are free to use or bypass this step and submit directly to ScholarOne.

Open access

All articles published in PAP are published Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.