They held conferences and launched academic journals that were comparatively oriented and not one-country journals.
And in 1988 scholars formed the Structure and organization of Government group, a research committee of the International Political Science Association, which publishes Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration.
In 1991 American scholars in public administration under the leadership of George Frederickson, who wanted an academic journal that emphasizes theory and quantitative research, launched The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory as an alternative to Public Administration Review, which was then more practitioner oriented.