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The American Society for Public Administration is the largest and most prominent professional association for public administration. It is dedicated to advancing the art, science, teaching and practice of public and non-profit administration.
The American Society for Public Administration is the largest and most prominent professional association for public administration. It is dedicated to advancing the art, science, teaching and practice of public and non-profit administration.
Should Policy Research Increase the Use of Experimental Research?
Policy experiments have great potential as evidenced by the groundbreaking results of experiments in other social science fields. Also, experimentation has a long tradition in policy research. Policy experiments should…
Pay Equity and a Statistical Review of the Wage Gap
Pay equity and the pay gap have been a topic of debate for several decades. Economists, political agents and journalists have long since had this debate. Unfortunately, the matter remains…
The Quest for Gender Balance: In the Workplace
Bottomline, the influence of gender balance is undeniable in generating company profit (or loss) statements and human service program effectiveness and efficiency. What specifically do we need to do to…
Community Engaged Teaching
Many universities are focusing attention on community engagement activities. For tenure track public administration scholars, community engagement activities are often part of all three of their typical workload dimensions: teaching,…
Facing the Complex Problems of Climate Change and Sustainable Development
The work of public administrators requires managing numerous interconnected systems for the benefit of the general public. It includes organizing government, developing and preparing policies to improve the public’s quality…
To Fold or Not to Fold? Playing Poker with Tax Incentive Bidding for Amazon’s HQ2
Perhaps the hottest public finance topic of the last year has been Amazon’s intent to build a second headquarters (HQ2) somewhere in the United States or Canada. A million questions…
Barriers to Improving Government Performance
There is a great deal of similarity between public management challenges confronting countries across the globe. While countries may differ in size and levels of socio-economic development, they seem to…
Leveraging Media, Social and Otherwise to Connect Public Administration Research to Practice
How do I make my work relevant? If you are a public administration scholar or student, you have likely asked yourself this question. Even the most rigorous research with the…
The Pitfalls of Framing: Decision Traps in Public Service
Framing is critical in public service decisionmaking. In one study, researchers asked survey respondents to name the most important problem facing the nation. When given four choices and the option…
Persistence and Opportunity
This is a story of persistence, opportunity, failure and success by a group of dedicated scientists, geologists, hazard modelers, engineers, architects and educators who continued to fight and strive for…
Is Lack of Openness and Transparency in Government a Serious Problem?
I would argue that openness and transparency in government has increased by orders of magnitude since I entered government service. If the public wants to know a lot more…
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