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Blue Ocean Thinking – Creating Innovative Public Policy

Blue Ocean Thinking – Creating Innovative Public Policy

Instead of companies competing in established markets (“red oceans”), companies should create markets (“blue ocean”). Red oceans summon up images of companies fiercely competing with each for market dominance.…

Pro- and Anti-Development Groups Agree, Houston’s Style of Development Doesn’t Work

Pro- and Anti-Development Groups Agree, Houston’s Style of Development Doesn’t Work

Along with the aftermath brought on by hurricanes and floods, as well as other natural disasters, comes arguments about the environment and human responsibility for the changing climate and criticisms…

Accounting for Social Issues… And How Public Administration Saves the Day (and the Agency)

Accounting for Social Issues… And How Public Administration Saves the Day (and the Agency)

Agency accounting is essential to the social movement and its most problematic. As the executive director of a social service agency, the altruistic—teacher, social worker, counselor—wants to “save the world.”…

ASPA Leadership Elections Begin Nov. 7

ASPA Leadership Elections Begin Nov. 7

By PA Times Online October 28, 2016 This November, as Americans from across the country head to the polls, another election will be taking place. The American Society for Public…

Registration for NECoPA 2016 Now Open!

Registration for NECoPA 2016 Now Open!

The registration for the 2016 Northeast Conference on Public Administration, “Public Administration in the Era of Collaboration,” is now open. Read on to learn more!…

SECoPA: A Look Back…and Ahead

The year 1962 marked the beginning of a new era for the South. Baker versus Carr, a landmark Supreme Court case, determined that malappropriated state legislatures were unconstitutional. The Baker…

The Flint Water Crisis: Looking Back…and Ahead

The Flint Water Crisis:  Looking Back…and Ahead

It is a story that has made the front page of every major newspaper and led national news broadcasts nightly: the lead contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan that…

ASPA Section on Procurement in Formation

ASPA has almost 30 topic-based Sections across its membership, discussing everything from emergency management to technology in government and more. Members are now forming a new Section focused on procurement…

NECoPA 2016: Public Administration in the Era of Collaboration

NECoPA 2016: Public Administration in the Era of Collaboration

By PA Times Online April 22, 2016 The 2016 Northeastern Conference on Public Administration (NECoPA), taking place Nov. 11-13 in Harrisburg, Penn., has announced its call for proposed papers, panels and posters. The…

Calling All Authors! PA Times Application Deadline Dec. 15

Calling All Authors! PA Times Application Deadline Dec. 15

The New Year is right around the corner and ASPA is planning now for our twice-weekly magazine supplement, PA Times Online. We’re looking for columnists who can speak to a…

Nominate a Peer (or Yourself) … ASPA 2016 Awards Program

Nominate a Peer (or Yourself) … ASPA 2016 Awards Program

ASPA's 2016 Annual Awards Program is underway! Every year, 25 public administrators are held up as glowing examples of public administration done right. But you and your colleagues can…