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Coping With Fiscal Shocks: Are Small Municipal Governments Masters of Their Fates?

January 12, 2021

Supreme Court’s Bostock Decision Protects LGBTQ Employment

January 11, 2021

Room for Improvement: The Government Employee Experience in 2021

January 11, 2021

School Security and Safety Are Changing Due to Enhanced Police Services in Cities Throughout America

January 11, 2021

The Echoes of Alexis de Tocqueville in America: Leveraging the Polarities of Democracy

It is more important now than ever that we learn to leverage the polarities that exist in our democracy…

January 14, 2021No CommentRead More

Street-Level Bureaucracy in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

Public administration has the ongoing challenge of trying to solve problems with innovation while attempting to balance the expectations of diverse stakeholders. Innovation can be characterized as the application of concepts or approaches to solve complex, tame and wicked problems. The COVID-19 pandemic is a wicked problem.…

January 13, 2021No CommentRead More

COVID-19: An Educational Paradigm Breaker

With new strains of COVID-19 being discovered around the world, it will be some time until the educational sector experiences pre-COVID-19 normalcy. …

January 12, 2021No CommentRead More

Defund the Police or Invest in Human Capital? A New Framework for Community Safety

To achieve the goals of the Defund the Police movement, cities may consider working across jurisdictions, and building police response with dedicated access to mental health and social services. The best approach, in many community issues, still focuses on community-oriented policing that is evidence-based and built on…

January 12, 2021No CommentRead More

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Coping With Fiscal Shocks: Are Small Municipal Governments Masters of Their Fates?

The options available to small governments to adjust to…

Supreme Court’s Bostock Decision Protects LGBTQ Employment

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to safeguard most employees…

Room for Improvement: The Government Employee Experience in 2021

Improving the government employee experience is the bold action…

School Security and Safety Are Changing Due to Enhanced Police Services in Cities Throughout America

The views expressed are those of the author and…

America Needs a Shot in the Arm: The COVID-19 Vaccination

As both academic and practicing members of public administration,…

Local Government Consolidation and the COVID-19 Crisis: Prospects for Change

As we are a few weeks away from the…

Effective Communication with Patients—More Important Than Pill Shoving

There needs to be a better sync between what…

Local Government Roles in Housing Accessibility and Affordability

Today, housing challenges are pressing due to their role…

Digital Transformation in Government Should Start with Low-Code and No-Code Development

We can encourage government workers’ innovation by giving them…

Paid to Populate: Demographic Disparities and Resident Incentive Programs

Disparities in growth between communities is not a new…

Public Service—Our Immediate Vocation

For public servants, Decembers are not only slow, they…

Public Servants—Thank You For Delivering Civilization

The core values that citizens expect from public servants…

Liberating Resources to Fund a Better Future

Launching new programs and services on a limited budget…

A Natural Approach to Land Use Planning

We typically approach urban planning the same way an…

Citizen’s Government Academy Experience

Citizen government academies illustrate public officials’ commitment to transparency.…

Marrying Technology And The Public Sector

Technology should not frustrate constituents who are reliant on…

Increasing Capacity for Collaboration and Affecting Action

The views expressed are those of the author and…

Legislating Performance: Does Mandated Performance Measurement Really Work?

The views expressed are those of the author and…

Public Service Profiles – Unsung Heroes

Gene C. Blue, president/CEO, Arizona Opportunities Industrialization Center (AzOIC)…

Public Service Profiles – Unsung Heroes

Ronald Bates, city manager, City of Pico Rivera Ronald…

Organizational Challenges & Management Alternatives

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Health Exchanges Launched

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The 21st Century Direct Support Workforce in the United States

By Julie Ann Racino The Direct Support Workforce in…

Community & Disability: DeInstitutionalization

By Julie Ann Racino In political science, the term…

Cultural Brokering: A promising way of building cultural competent community based organizations

Community based organizations (CBOs) are agencies providing direct social…

Publishing and Perishing as a Doctoral Student

Writing, editing, submitting, revising, resubmitting, selecting… each stage comes…

Reducing Voluntary Program Administrative Burden: Lessons from the National Organic Program

The views expressed are those of the author and…

Accountability for Social Equity in Policing

Citizen groups, political leaders, and law enforcement agencies have…

SSVF Programs Reduce Veteran Homelessness

Homelessness is a social problem which touches every community…

Climate Change Adaptation: Implications for the Public Sector

Climate change is no longer an abstract concept, or…

Front-line Discretion: Good Cop or Bad Cop?

Front-line workers implement public policy on a direct and…

What You Think About Yourself Matters

In an era of persistent budgetary constraints, enhancing employee…

Review Sought for a Proposed ANSI Quality of Government Standard

ASPA members and supporters are being invited to assist…

ASPA Keystone State Chapter Annual Awards Program

ASPA’s Keystone State Chapter held its annual Public Service…

21st Century Higher Education in America: A Reason for Alarm?

Is the reason for rising higher education cost due…

Grace Harris, Vital Piece of VCU History, Dies at 84

Grace E. Harris, whose leadership helped shape Virginia Commonwealth…

The United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals and the Building of a Good Society: A Modest Proposal for the Public Administration Education and Training Community

When the United Nations (UN) announced in 2000 a…

Public Administration: Theory or Practice

Trends in the teaching public administration discourse tend toward…

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