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Are Recent Immigration Policy Changes at Odds?

Are Recent Immigration Policy Changes at Odds?

In past weeks, the healthcare and White House reshuffle dramas largely drowned out word of several interesting immigration policy developments on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and temporary worker…

Building A “Core” Culture: The Public Administrator as Ethical Leader and Chief Learning Officer

Building A “Core” Culture: The Public Administrator as Ethical Leader and Chief Learning Officer

When the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations became effective November 1, 1991, the law and ethics now provided a substantive “core” for assessing organizational performance. For the past 27 years,…

Teaching with Multimedia: Creating Better Public Administration Student Discussions with Visual Images

Teaching with Multimedia: Creating Better Public Administration Student Discussions with Visual Images

The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization.  By Lois Warner July 28, 2017 Introduction Discussions are an…

Serving Veteran Family Members: The Invisible Children

Serving Veteran Family Members: The Invisible Children

Sometimes in public administration the biggest challenge can be deciding which clients should be served. Who should receive benefits — for what problems? Wax - blogimage_VeteransInitiativeBut some clients are more visible…

The season finale of Repeal and Replace: Obamacare

The season finale of Repeal and Replace: Obamacare

The season finale of Repeal and Replace: Obamacare was certainly filled with drama and ended with a Shonda Rhimes level of "to be continued…" But do not fret, there will…

Intersector Briefing: Pay for Success

Intersector Briefing: Pay for Success

Pay-for-success programs—partnerships in which government contracts with private partners who provide upfront capital to high quality service providers to achieve a public goal—offer a promising approach for government across a…

Mutual Mission Theory: From Barn-Raising to Pop-Up Collaboration — Leveraging the Will to Collaborate to Fortify National Resiliency

Mutual Mission Theory: From Barn-Raising to Pop-Up Collaboration — Leveraging the Will to Collaborate to Fortify National Resiliency

The will to collaborate is deeply ingrained in the human spirit and is integral to the engine that continues to drive civilization. Today, evidence of this will to collaborate is expressed…

Apothecary as an Administrator’s Option to Opioid Abuse

Apothecary as an Administrator’s Option to Opioid Abuse

The abuse of opioids is receiving growing public scrutiny. For example, The Economist mentioned the complex issues behind the factors and environments that facilitate the dependency on opioids in their…

A Better Option

A Better Option

If Congress—Republicans and/or Democrats—really want to fix the problems of universal access to quality, affordable healthcare, prevention and wellness services as well as improving retirement security for all Americans, they…

The Legacy of the Vietnam War Continues to Undermine Trust and Confidence in the Federal Government and Other Institutions

The Legacy of the Vietnam War Continues to Undermine Trust and Confidence in the Federal Government and Other Institutions

I think it non-controversial to say that the low level of public trust in the federal government and other institutions of American society has reached the point of crisis. Wide…

Is the Research on Employee Motivation Useful?

Is the Research on Employee Motivation Useful?

I spent years as a student and appreciate the work environment of universities. I’ve also spent decades as a consultant and continue to be fascinated by the dynamics of organizations.…

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