arbiter
JournalsPricingAccount

Eastern and western philosophies: Rethinking the foundations of public administration

Edoardo Ongaro & Alfred Tat‐Kei Ho

Public Policy and Administration2025https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767251330456article
AJG 2ABDC B
Weight
0.48

What the paper says

This is the editorial introduction to the special issue ‘Eastern and Western Philosophies: Rethinking the Foundations of Public Administration’. This special issue pursues an important direction of inquiry in the relationship between philosophy and public administration by mobilising in a combined way both eastern and western philosophies to revisit foundational issues in public administration. The papers published in this special issue show that, by deploying in a combined way eastern and western philosophical perspectives, key problems and issues in PA get addressed and can be critically revisited in their ontological or epistemological foundations, illuminated from novel angles, and even outright advanced by having philosophical thinking supplementing and complementing social scientific thinking in and for PA. This editorial introduction concludes by outlining four directions of inquiry for connecting philosophy and PA, thereby delineating a research agenda to more closely bring philosophical thinking into public administration.

5 citations

Open paper page →

Cite this paper

https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767251330456

Or copy a formatted citation

@article{edoardo2025,
  title        = {{Eastern and western philosophies: Rethinking the foundations of public administration}},
  author       = {Edoardo Ongaro & Alfred Tat‐Kei Ho},
  journal      = {Public Policy and Administration},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767251330456},
}

Paste directly into BibTeX, Zotero, or your reference manager.

Flag this paper

Eastern and western philosophies: Rethinking the foundations of public administration

Flags are reviewed by the Arbiter methodology team within 5 business days.

Evidence weight

0.48

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.41 × 0.4 = 0.16
M · momentum0.63 × 0.15 = 0.09
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

† Text relevance is estimated at 0.50 on the detail page — for your query’s actual relevance score, open this paper from a search result.