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Pressures and Strategies for Local Sustainability and High Performance Under the Fiscal Crisis
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…
Openness and Transparency: Is E-Government Learning to Listen?
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…
Adoption of Sustainability Policy Innovations and Green Local Governance
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…
Obama, Presidential Power and the Boston Marathon Bomber
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…
A Form of Modern Day Patronage
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…
Conjunction Junction, What’s Your Function? An Assessment of Coproduction in Atlanta
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…
Recruitment in the Public Sector
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…
Social Security Administration Talent Retention
The Partnership for Public Service reported the Social Security Administration (SSA) dropped from second to sixth rank for employee satisfaction and commitment of 19 large federal agencies surveyed in 2012.…
Public Administration: Prioritizing the Process
Executive Summary Sustainable development is often a difficult concept to grasp, especially considering, as most practitioners can attest, public administration is a domain with very few absolute answers and even…
Saving Higher Education
It’s no secret that higher education is in a state of turmoil—one might even use the word “crisis.” College costs have risen more rapidly than the pace of inflation. Student…
Intrapreneurship and the Public Sector: A Missing Capability
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…
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