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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
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
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.…
Thriving Rural Communities: Big Data Insights & Stories to Tell
Why do some rural communities thrive compared to their peers, despite continuing to lose population? The Rural Smart Shrink Initiative is using data as evidence to explore this question.…
Engaging the Community in Priority Setting
In 2017, the City of Santa Monica established the Framework for a Sustainability City of Wellbeing as its strategic plan. After the document was established, staff sought to engage the…
It’s Part of the Job
It takes vigilance and courage for public servants to resist administrative evil and racism but doing so is part of the job description. To better face such inevitable ethical battles,…
Lean American Rescue Plan ACT (ARPA)
Lean management principles and process improvement techniques can maximize the value of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. Moreover, these funds provide an opportunity to build a robust sustainable…
Introducing Performance Appraisals in the Public Sector
Performance measures are a significant indicator of how to effectively make an organization successful. Taking a periodic look at how an organization is functioning is prudent to ensure measures are…
When Everything is Your—Right!?!
Americans are predisposed to the approach of demanding our rights. We are ready to respond when we feel victimized, either at houses of worship with mask mandates, at home or…
Metaphors and Public Administration Ethics
With research indicating that metaphors can influence how subordinates perceive administrators, what metaphors might public administrators consider invoking to promote themselves as ethical leaders?…
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…
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