台灣公共行政博士論文內容與發展之研究

公共行政學門的發展趨勢一直是國內外學者關注的焦點，台灣公共行政的發展至今已有近70年，發展的現況與內容具有研究上的價值與重要性。本研究選擇以博士論文為研究對象，希望能從不同的面向來檢視公共行政學門的發展現況。當前對於公共行政博士論文的研究，多聚焦於研究領域、研究方法的探討，少有學者對博士論文做更深入的分析，本研究在參考過去學者提出台灣公共行政面臨的問題與危機後，建立實證研究的比例、論文內容的實務化程度、理論本土化程度等三項變數，期能藉此對博士論文的發展狀況做更進一步的分析，也了解過去學者所提出的問題是否得到改善。此外，也透過是否刊登為期刊論文與論文被引用次數來了解博士論文的學術性程度。研究結果發現：（1）博士論文篇數呈現成長趨勢，但超過半數的論文集中於北部地區。（2）研究領域方面以公共管理與政策科學最多，比較行政、人事行政等方面較少。（3）研究方法方面以質化與量化並用的研究最多。（4）實證研究比例方面以實證研究為主流，有88％的研究為實證研究。（5）內容的實務化程度方面，以實務導向的理論研究比例最多，純實務研究的比例最低。（6）理論本土化方面，多數論文仍與過去相同，使用國外發展之理論最多，使用本土發展之理論最少。（7）刊登為期刊論文方面，僅有18.8％的論文刊登至期刊，多數論文未在期刊上刊登。（8）被引用次數方面，標準化後整體平均被引用1.68次，在近年則呈現下降的趨勢，就此兩方面而言學術性程度仍有進一步提升的空間。

關鍵字

公共行政；博士論文；內容分析；研究領域；研究方法

並列摘要

The trend of Public Administration has been the focus of scholars in the area. The development of Public Administration in Taiwan has been nearly 70 years, current status and content of development have research value and importance. This study chooses to use Doctoral Dissertation as the research object, hope to review the development of Public Administration from different perspectives. Current research on doctoral dissertation in Public Administration in Taiwan focus more on research area and research method, few researches do more analysis. According to past researches, they found out some problems of Public Administration in Taiwan, this study build three research variables by these problems: percentage of Empirical research, Practical level of dissertation content and the Localization of the theory dissertations used. Hope to do more analysis on doctoral dissertation in Public Administration in Taiwan and understand whether the problems are improved. Otherwise, this study also try to analysis the Academic level of doctoral dissertation by whether the dissertation is published on journal and cited times. The study found: (1) The numbers of doctoral dissertation showing growth trends, but over half are in northern of Taiwan. (2) Public Management and Policy Science are the most chosen research areas. (3) Most dissertation uses both Qualified and Quantized research methods. (4) About 88% of dissertations are Empirical research. (5) Most dissertation are practice orientation’s theory research. Less dissertation are pure practice research. (6) Most dissertations uses theory from abroad only, just like the past. (7) Only 18.8% of dissertation published on journal. (8) The average of cited times is 1.68 and it shows downward trend in recent years, the Academic level has room for improvement.