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Abstract

This article evaluates the ability of public administration programs to provide computing education by surveying current textbooks' and general public administration journals' treatment of the topic since 1985. Three highly respected journals and six textbooks were studied. The journals were found to barely treat the topic of computing, whether as a main focus or as merely a mention in articles. The textbooks also barely mentioned computing. In addition, there was no consistent rubric or chapter topic under which computing was discussed. It was found that the articles that mention computing were authored by a variety of people in academia and government; by people in the West, Midwest, South, and East; and by both women and men.

Keywords

public administration computer applications content analysis computing education MPA programs

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