Samenvatting

Like many other public administration journals, the Dutch journal Bestuurskunde (Public Administration) is committed to fostering exchanges between academicians and practitioners. In this article the author presents the results of a review of 1230 articles, that were published in Bestuurskunde, between 1992 and 2021. The questions are: What were the trends in the journal’s content in the past three decades? Who were the journal’s authors? What are the topical and theoretical developments reflected in it? The analyses show that, although participation of practitioner authors declined steadily, Bestuurskunde has been able to maintain its role as an exchange platform. This may be due to a remarkable continuity in the prominence of normative argumentative methodologies in its publications. Moreover, some observations are shared of topics that should be given more attention. Among these are diversity and inclusion, transnational administration, and the actual use of Bestuurskunde as a source of information by practitioners.