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Enhancing methodological reporting in Public Administration: The functional equivalents framework

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Public administration scholarship reflects a multidisciplinary field in which many theoretical perspectives coexist. However, one of the dark sides of such theoretical pluralism is methodological fragmentation. It may be hard to assess the research quality and to engage with the findings from studies employing different methodologies, thus limiting meaningful conversations. Moreover, the constant race across social sciences to make methodologies more sophisticated may exacerbate the separation between academic and practitioner audiences. In order to counterbalance these two trends, the paper aims at increasing methodological intelligibility in our field. It does so starting from the idea that each methodology entails choices in the conventional phases of research design, data collection and data analysis, and that these choices must be reported (...)

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MELE, Valentina, et al. Enhancing methodological reporting in Public Administration: The functional equivalents framework. American Review of Public Administration. 2020. Vol. 50, num. 8, pags. 811-824. ISSN 0275-0740. [consulted: 19 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/171014

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