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Digital Government – The Big Deal About Big Bird
Welcome to “New Media & Practice,” a new monthly column exploring digital government and the use of digital technology in civic engagement. This column will discuss emerging research and practice in…
Engaging with Constituents After Elections
By: Larry Schooler Both major-party presidential candidates are searching for ways to distinguish themselves from one another in the starkest possible terms—“repealing Obamacare,” “keeping us moving forward rather than…
The Transition Period – No Honeymoon, Not to Be Taken Lightly
By: Don D. Berglund The winner of a local or state election has the best chance of later being re-elected if he/she performs well during one particularly critical period…
Project Orchestration – Project Management for the Internet Age, Part 1
By: Shami Dugal What is Orchestration? Leonard Bernstein said that “The right music played by the right instruments at the right time in the right combination: that’s good Orchestration.” Orchestration is…
The Public Manager – Ridicule or Respect
By: Don Busi Most citizens assume there are certain inherent characteristics imbedded within the public service sector work environment that foster the notion that most public career managers are less…
Emerging Issues: Mr. Murray and the Decay of American Virtue: Inequality III
Bill Barnes
Charles Murray’s new book, Coming Apart,
is a lament—wrapped around some data and analysis—for an American
community and individual qualities that never existed but…
Emerging Issues: Jeremiads on Class and the Nation’s Future: Inequality II
Bill Barnes
There’s not much that’s cheerful in Charles Murray’s Coming Apart or Thomas Edsall’s Age of Austerity: no Fred and Ginger, no Ozzie…
Author Responds to Comments on “Public Administration and the Prevailing Political Regime”
EDITOR'S NOTE: In a Comment on Bertone's PA TIMES Online article "Public Administration and the Prevailing Political Regime" published March 12,…
Emerging Issues: Some People are More Equal than Others
Bill Barnes
A good national conversation about inequality would be useful.
The
prospects may seem poor because the current federal election campaigns
are shaping up as more wild…
Public Administration and the Prevailing Political Regime, Part 2
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Public Administration and the Prevailing Political Regime, Part 1
This article is part one of two. Watch for part two to be posted this Thursday, March 15, 2012.
Thomas L. Bertone
In four previous Online