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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.
Infrastructure: Elixir for Long-Term Pension Liabilities?
Two primary drivers critically impacting both budgetary considerations and public policy processes for the foreseeable future regardless of revenue and service selection are pension liabilities and infrastructure. One tends to…
Government’s Workforce Problems Make HR Increasingly Important
Public employers are entering an era when workforce shortages will make it increasingly difficult to deliver basic services. For job families where government competes with industry—engineering and information management stand…
Where Have All the Statesmen Gone?
Apologies to Pete Seeger, but the cycle described in his 1965 song, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” fits our present discussion of statesmanship quite handily. There have been several…
Creating Competition — Without Creating Losers
Indeed, if the managers of every “team” has such comparative data, many may already be competing, if only in their own minds. After all, some of them believe they are…
Reinventing “Reinventing Government” for the Digital Twin Age of Public Administration
What happened to reinventing government in the last twenty-five years? Even if a reinventing government project succeeds, it is hard to sustain. And many reinventing government projects were initiated by…
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…
The Twilight of Old Government: Timeless Lessons in Public Service
While I cannot speak for every public servant around the world, my hopes and wishes for next year and years to come can be summed up as Pax Governo, or…
Baseball, Markets and Revitalizing the Middle Class
Recently, there has been some discussion in the public administration community about revitalizing the middle class in America. Personally, I’m more concerned with relieving the discomfort of the millions of people…
Transition of Age
Today I would contend that the public administration employment sector at all levels is going through a major Transition of Age. This claim is defined and driven by basic observational…
Elective or Compulsory Requirement? The Role of Public Administration Program Curricular in Promoting Diversity
If public administration programs continue to offer diversity courses as an elective, forget it, we are not ready to move the needle.…
Realistic Public Administration: Revisiting Amelioration
When working with public administrators at any level, or when listening to the concerns of our communities, we often hear the sentiment that all problems should be fully addressed, as…
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