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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.

Cultivating Leadership: Freedom and Responsibility

Cultivating Leadership: Freedom and Responsibility

If organizations seek to cultivate leadership, they must first consider the virtue of employees.…

Learning from Wisconsin: Why 2019 Promises to be a Dangerous Year

Learning from Wisconsin: Why 2019 Promises to be a Dangerous Year

However, the big issues of 2018 were nothing new to PA; the administrative state has always faced legitimacy challenges, budgeting has always been about choices and norms are always changing.…

Reforming and Updating Public Finance Legislation: An Australian Perspective

Reforming and Updating Public Finance Legislation: An Australian Perspective

From my perspective there are not many topics as exciting as public finance legislation. But I also enjoy test match cricket! Here in Australia we have been through a period…

Futuristic Democracy: Is it by Choice or by Compulsion?

Democracy is now widely seen as the best method to use for national government. However, this dominance is less than a century old. The growing acceptance of democracy came with…

Is Robin Hood Still Right for Texas?

Is Robin Hood Still Right for Texas?

Some educational experts say that the general shelf life of a school funding methodology is approximately ten years. In Texas, ours is approaching twenty-six years old. Many believe that this…

Emotional Intelligence: Linking Professionalism, Perception and Human Motivation in the Workplace

Emotional Intelligence: Linking Professionalism, Perception and Human Motivation in the Workplace

Local governments must rapidly develop the technical capacity to utilize Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This use of advanced analytics will inform local government policymakers and empower local government…

Big Data and AI in Local Government

Big Data and AI in Local Government

Local governments must radically improve their efficiency if they are to survive and successfully balance between the National Academy of Public Administration’s four pillars of public administration: economy, effectiveness, efficiency…

Survey Says?

Survey Says?

As I write this column, the federal workforce is entering 2019 with a partial government shutdown and a pay freeze. This same workforce was subjected to two very short shutdowns…

Rising Above “Fake News”: Is Unbiased Information Gathering within Public Sector Decisionmaking Still Possible?

Whether or not the public service community and its leaders are ready to acknowledge it, a fundamental shift in the decisionmaking process is occurring. Public administrators, at all levels and…

Now!

Now!

No longer can we in the public administration field just focus on just policy development, research and educating the next generation of practitioners. The world in which we currently live…

Honest Social Conflict or Dishonest Harmony? The Time for a Decision

Honest Social Conflict or Dishonest Harmony? The Time for a Decision

What of honest social conflict? What are the benefits, the dangers? The great Dr. W.E.B. Dubois once wrote, “either ignorance will destroy America or America will destroy ignorance.” We are…