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Trump Comparisons to Johnson, Harding, Grant and Buchanan
We hear many comparisons between Donald Trump and Reagan and Nixon. Reagan is held out as the ideal conservative and Nixon is held out as the impeached president. This neglects…
The Advent of the Street Level Bureaucrat in the Classroom — New Challenges for Graduate Urban Management Education
On the whole, these are not the MPA students of the past seeking those coveted administrative generalist positions in the City/County Managers office. For the most part, and certainly with…
Observations from the MPA Lectern — The Evident and Not So Evident
For this cohort of MPA students, the assessment of ability is yet to be determined. For some, punctuality and proper cell phone etiquette will be a challenge. With an age-range…
Beyond Technocracy — Civics, Culture and Public Service
The notions of aggregation, community-owned government, empowering rather than serving, are not universally accepted. These concepts require the sharing of power, authority and an acknowledgement of the foundational priority of…
Alternative Public Service Delivery Systems
Government contracting with outside agencies is nothing new. In its fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers, government’s role is to ensure strict adherence to cost savings through the competitive bid process,…
To Teach or Not To Teach—Insights from a Practitioner Instructor
If your last contact with higher education was as a student or a brush with the system as a guest lecturer, you may find the educational environment to be different…
What’s a Bureaucrat To Do?
It’s no surprise that the governed seem none too happy with their government. Of course, this attitude is not new given an American brand of democratic angst has historically been…
Civics Lost—No Apparent Priority in Education
A majority of students don’t know, or appear to care, about their own country’s system of governance. When tested, high school and college graduates alike do very poorly in answering…
The Millennial Generation—Is There a Challenge to Civic Engagement?
Through inheritance and its own volition, each passing generation not only develops a generalized sense of self and reality, it creates its own needs based agenda; its own generational profile.…
The Why of Public Service
H. George Frederickson among others has extolled the importance of knowing whom government works for. The Preamble to the United States Constitution makes it perfectly clear as to the relationship…
Getting Serious About Practitioners In The Classroom
Theory and practice are worlds worth blending. Both practitioners and academics can take steps to involve each other in their work, strengthening the discourse of public administration.…
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