About the Journal

The scientific journal Administrar lo Público (ALP journal), ISSN 2215-6909, offers a set of features for reflection, analysis and in-depth study of topics in the discipline such as customs administration and international trade, public administration, administrative contracting and public procurement, internal control , open government data, diplomacy, evaluation of government programs, performance evaluation, public finances and budgets, public management, among others. This leads to research on areas of vital significance for the transformation of public management. Particularly within a context of dizzying and accelerated changes in society related to innovations that must be addressed by the public sector, in ways that they satisfy social, economic and, above all, human needs.
 
As a part of the scientific journals of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), this journal holds the main institutional aspirations of research, teaching and social extention. By offering academic, technical and scientific solutions and discussions in an area that affects all dimensions of development, the journal enhances the transformative and dialectical capacity between society, communities and organizations with the University, thus contributing to generate knowledge and resources for the progress of the country.
 
The ALP journal offers the possibility of encouraging academic production in the discipline of Public Administration from multiple approaches and areas of teachers and researchers in the social sciences, economic sciences, education and law, as well as ensuring that generations of undergraduate students and postgraduates with outstanding academic works can make indigenous contributions to increase the body of knowledge in this disciplinary area, it represents a joint opportunity to publicize the work that is carried out nationally and internationally to manage the public in a better way.
 
Managing the Public is a production of the Public Administration Research and Training Center (CICAP), a UCR Center that generates, transfers and disseminates knowledge to improve the management capacity of the public, through research and social action, contributing to well-being. general of society.
 
It is a research center attached to the Vice-Rector's Office for Research that was founded in 1976 with the idea of strengthening the processes of the national, regional and local Public Administration. Nowadays, it generates, transfers and disseminates knowledge to improve public management capacity, through basic and applied research processes, as well as teaching extension activities within the framework of social action, in order to contribute to the quality of life of the people.
 
Since 2013, CICAP has been producing the series Administrar lo Público, as a periodic publication that compiles scientific articles, case studies and systematizations of interventions, among other scientific manuscripts in the area of social and economic sciences, with particular emphasis on Public Administration, through nine consecutive editions. In 2023 the series became the academic journal Revista Científica Administrar lo Público and published its first volume in 2024. It is an electronic, refereed and open-access journal.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-06-26

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The ALP Journal offers the possibility of encouraging academic production around public administration and management from multiple approaches and areas. It is published by the Centro de Investigación y Capacitación Administración Pública (CICAP) (Public Administration Research and Training Center), a Center from the Universidad de Costa Rica that generates, transfers and disseminates knowledge to improve the management capacity of that which is public, through research and social action, and thus contributing to the general well-being of society. Since 2013, CICAP had produced the series Administrar lo Público as a periodical publication that compiled scientific articles, case studies and systematizations of interventions among other scientific manuscripts for 9 consecutive years. In 2023 the ALP series begins its process to become a scientific journal, publishing its first volume in 2024. The ALP Journal is electronic, refereed, and free to access.