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		<title>Labor Force Components: Who Are We Attracting As Public Service Professionals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Resources Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recruiting in all sectors of the workforce is the process of generating a pool of qualified applicants for organizational jobs. As staffing competition among the private and the public sector becomes more evident, recruiting and retention practices continues to be a challenge for the human resources departments of many public agencies. Klingner and Nalbandian (2003) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Open Government Trend Moving Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PATIMES</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Current Events and Innovation in the Public Sector]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Service Recognition Week will have concluded before this issue of PA Times online reaches our readers, but recognizing the value of public employees and “connecting citizens with their government” is more than a theme, its vital to the future of public administration. The trend of open government and transparency as a way to connect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pressures and Strategies for Local Sustainability and High Performance Under the Fiscal Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PATIMES</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2013 Founders' Forum Fellows]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://patimes.org/?p=26302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Executive Summary Local governments in the United States are, today, caught in the worst fiscal crisis ever facing the nation. However, they have entered this crisis ill-prepared. Being largely dependent on federal and state funding, and with shaking local tax bases and meager self-generated resources, local governments’ fiscal sustainability as well as their ability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Openness and Transparency: Is E-Government Learning to Listen?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PATIMES</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Media & Public Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Openness and improving transparency are two of the cornerstones of electronic government (e-government) policies. In this month’s column, we discuss some of the challenges of building the next phase of e-government. &#160; Making Information Available When the term “electronic government” was introduced by the Clinton-Gore administration in 1993 there were clear expectations that the newly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intrapreneurship and the Public Sector: A Missing Capability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PATIMES</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[employee retention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retaining talented employees within an organization is one of the most severe challenges facing our public agencies. In recent times, public agencies have taken a beating on a number of fronts from budget cuts to having to contend with a frustrated citizenry and an increased demand for services. Over the last few years, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption of Sustainability Policy Innovations and Green Local Governance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PATIMES</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Executive Summary This essay points out that local government should be a critical entity to create innovative polices for climate change protection and implement efficiently these policies reducing less cost and providing better benefits. In order to achieve these goals, I suggest two solutions. First, well-organized state Climate Action Plans (CAPs) can direct local governments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Presidential Power and the Boston Marathon Bomber</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PATIMES</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PA & the Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boston bombings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miranda rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The initial decision by the Obama Administration and the FBI not to read Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Marathon bomber, his Miranda rights was wrong on at least two counts. The first is from a perspective of the law, the other by way of a broader principle regarding the rights of individuals in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Form of Modern Day Patronage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PATIMES</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[community development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy and sports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Atlantic Cities website reported that Atlanta and its professional football team, the Falcons, are considering replacing the not-so-old Georgia Dome with a $1 billion “pantheon inspired” stadium. From a community development standpoint, the plans border on absurdity. The city is planning to cover $200 million of the stadium’s cost. In an era of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conjunction Junction, What’s Your Function? An Assessment of Coproduction in Atlanta</title>
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		<comments>http://patimes.org/conjunction-junction-whats-function-assessment-coproduction-atlanta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Founders' Forum Fellows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coproduction is not a new concept, as it has been recognized in academic and practitioner circles since the 1970s. Its popularity subsided in the 1990s and 2000s, but in recent years, it has reemerged in both practice and theory. Scholars have differing opinions about what constitutes coproduction. And much of this disagreement seems to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recruitment in the Public Sector</title>
		<link>http://patimes.org/recruitment-public-sector/</link>
		<comments>http://patimes.org/recruitment-public-sector/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PATIMES</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[government hiring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public sector recruitment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been hearing for the past four years that government is becoming the biggest job supplier and taking over that function from the private sector. While that has been the constant criticism of the Obama government, whether it was to ostensibly save failing industries or to create shovel-ready jobs, individuals who have found work [...]]]></description>
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