Where power and scholarship collide: Gender and coauthorship in public administration research.
Publishing is a source of capital and power in academia, and coauthoring is a common way to publish. However, studies in public administration have not yet examined the structure of coauthorship patterns, how these patterns have evolved over time, or the extent to which these patterns are gendered....
| Published in: | Public Administration Review Vol. 85; no. 6; pp. 1853 - 1870 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov/Dec2025
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