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Water, a User’s Guide—Part 5: Policymakers

Water, a User’s Guide—Part 5: Policymakers

Concerns related to water appear regularly in local, national and international news. Both administrators and policymakers play critical roles at every step of the policy process.…

Whither Strategic Planning in Public Administration? Part 1—A Brief Look at History and Current Practice

Whither Strategic Planning in Public Administration? Part 1—A Brief Look at History and Current Practice

Should the public sector devote substantial resources to strategic planning? Or should there be little or no planning at all? This article is the first of two-parts that provides context…

Engendering the Public’s Trust in Local Government

Engendering the Public’s Trust in Local Government

Local governments can help lead the way to restore a higher level of trust in all levels of government.…

Government Finance in Perspective: A Misuse of Financial Analysis

Government Finance in Perspective: A Misuse of Financial Analysis

Government exists to serve the people and not to be self-serving. Yet the financial analysis that is often used to evaluate programs and policies looks at what is best for…

Developing the Brain Metaphor to Create a Learning Organization

Developing the Brain Metaphor to Create a Learning Organization

Administrators looking at creating or maintaining a learning organization need to consider how Gareth Morgan’s brain metaphor facilitates creating a viable learning organization. The brain metaphor described in Morgan’s Images…

Better than Nothing isn’t Good Enough: Integrating Improved Biosurveillance Technology with Scenario-Based Planning for Public Health Emergencies

Better than Nothing isn’t Good Enough: Integrating Improved Biosurveillance Technology with Scenario-Based Planning for Public Health Emergencies

The United States must make improving our capacity to detect and identify a biological threat a major national priority…

Tolerating Rising Crime: Is Cooperate & Comply the New Norm?

Tolerating Rising Crime: Is Cooperate & Comply the New Norm?

With the rising crime in our country, communities have a choice to make. Do we continue down the path of less enforcement and prosecutions, or do we reinvest in police…

ASPA Pandemic Task Force Presents Exploring COVID-19 Inequities Among Black and Latinx Populations in the United States: CRT Perspectives

ASPA Pandemic Task Force Presents Exploring COVID-19 Inequities Among Black and Latinx Populations in the United States: CRT Perspectives

The ASPA Pandemic Task Force hosted a webinar to address the necessity of using critical race theory (CRT) to explore the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black and Latinx…

Reimagining Public Administration Education Post COVID-19: Part I

Reimagining Public Administration Education Post COVID-19: Part I

This article will focus on reimagining public administration education post-COVID-19. The new reality will require preparing graduates with skills to meet challenges that have not been known before.…