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Although Mage Armor is an armor bonus, in 3.5 we have always ruled that it applied to your touch AC although I have never found anything RAW to support this. In Pathfinder, it specifically calls it out as adding to touch AC in the cases of incorporeal attacks but for nothing else.
So my question is: Does Mage Armor add to your overall touch AC?
ONly if it from an incorporeal attack, as force effects impeed them.
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It never did in 3.5. And the effectiveness against incorporeal attacks is nothing new.
An armor bonus doesn't apply against touch attacks, except for armor bonuses granted by force effects (such as the mage armor spell) which apply against incorporeal touch attacks, such as that of a shadow.
Mage Armor
An invisible but tangible field of force surrounds the subject of a mage armor spell, providing a +4 armor bonus to AC.
Unlike mundane armor, mage armor entails no armor check penalty, arcane spell failure chance, or speed reduction. Since mage armor is made of force, incorporeal creatures can’t bypass it the way they do normal armor.
The sad thing is that a lot of times it slips past Paizo's own editors. (see Classic Dragons Revisited and its many stat block errors)