This article is an intellectual history of the noble endeavors and challenges involved in the creation and evolution of the American Review of Public Administration. It traces the journal’s development from its beginning as the Midwest Review of Public Administration (MRPA) under the leadership of Park College professor Jerzy Hauptmann, a Polish intellectual who entered the United States at the end of World War II. Hauptmann launched MRPA with a regional focus, welcoming contributions from a variety of voices in public service–related occupations. A political scientist suspicious of the power of national governments, Hauptmann favored a less top-down regional approach. The article provides insights from the late 1960s into the growing field of public administration. Behind the scenes, the article chronicles the financial challenges, details of manuscript review processes, and more in an initially low-technology world. This history is also multi-institutional, detailing the journal’s transfer from a small college to a team of scholars, including coauthor John Clayton Thomas, at the three public administration programs of the University of Missouri—in Columbia, Kansas City, and St. Louis. We are indebted to our now-departed colleague and coauthor, George Frederickson, for the idea of writing this article.

这篇文章是关于美国公共行政评论的创建和演变过程中所涉及的崇高努力和挑战的知识史。它追溯了该期刊作为中西部公共行政评论( MRPA )的发展历程，该期刊是在帕克学院教授 Jerzy Hauptmann 的领导下发展起来的，Jerzy Hauptmann 是一位在二战结束时进入美国的波兰知识分子。Hauptmann 推出MRPA以区域为重点，欢迎来自公共服务相关职业的各种声音的贡献。作为对国家政府权力持怀疑态度的政治学家，豪普特曼倾向于采用一种不那么自上而下的区域方法。这篇文章提供了 1960 年代后期对不断发展的公共行政领域的见解。在幕后，这篇文章记录了最初技术含量低的世界中的财务挑战、手稿审查过程的细节等。这段历史也是多机构的，详细描述了该期刊从一所小型大学转移到一组学者，其中包括合著者约翰克莱顿托马斯，在密苏里大学的三个公共管理项目——哥伦比亚、堪萨斯城和圣路易斯. 我们感谢我们现已离职的同事和合著者 George Frederickson，