Literature reviews have become widespread in public administration, especially in the past decade. These reviews typically adopt widely-accepted approaches with many drawing upon systematized approaches to review in fields like medicine and psychology. Public administration, however, is a professional, design-oriented discipline, focused on enhancing theory to solve real-life policy, administrative, and managerial challenges. Recognizing the unique traditions and purposes in public administration scholarship, it is important to take stock of how public administration scholars “do” reviews, with the aim of providing recommendations to rejuvenate the state of the art in reviewing. We present a framework to guide review efforts in public administration centered on purpose (why?), object (what?), subject (who?), community (for whom?) and practices (how?). Next, we present different approaches to doing reviews and how those approaches present different answers to the questions raised above. Finally, we discuss examples of public administration reviews within each approach and conclude with specific recommendations for researchers and practitioners who want to use reviews to rejuvenate public administration.

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撰写有影响力的评论以振兴公共行政：框架和建议

文献综述在公共管理领域已经变得很普遍，尤其是在过去的十年里。这些评论通常采用广泛接受的方法，其中许多借鉴医学和心理学等领域的系统化方法进行评论。然而，公共管理是一门专业的、以设计为导向的学科，专注于增强理论以解决现实生活中的政策、行政和管理挑战。认识到公共行政学术的独特传统和目的，评估公共行政学者如何​​“进行”评论非常重要，目的是提供建议，以振兴评论领域的最新技术水平。我们提出了一个框架来指导公共行政审查工作，以目的（为什么？）、客体（什么？）、主体（谁？）、社区（为谁？）和实践（如何？）为中心。接下来，我们提出进行评审的不同方法，以及这些方法如何对上述问题提供不同的答案。最后，我们讨论了每种方法中公共行政审查的示例，并为希望利用审查振兴公共行政的研究人员和从业者提供了具体建议。