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By Stephen Kleinschmit ASPA is joining with the Department of Public Policy at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne to host the inaugural Midwest Public Affairs Conference (MPAC). Scheduled for March…
By Joseph G. Jarret America’s judicial system most commonly defines the term “conflict” to mean a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. Whenever people work together and are…
By Christine Springer Nurturing continuous engagement of the community served by public agencies is not only important but also critical to successful public management in an environment of change. Networking…
By Laree Kiely This column is the last for 2013. Or is it the preview of 2014? Typically, we would do a retrospective on the last year, comment about how…
By Roger L. Kemp The UniTown Network recently held its first annual Town-Gown Relations Conference for representatives of cities and universities in the European Union. The City of Ferrara (Italy) and…
By Sheila Suess Kennedy I have often written about my skepticism of so-called “privatization” of public assets. I say “so called” because Americans use the term inaccurately to mean contracting…
By Stuart C. Gilman and Howard Whitton Everything is connected to everything else, as in the world of ecology and in public administration. Transparency seems to have become the new panacea…
By Lorenda A. Naylor Introduction November is National Adoption Month. It is a time Americans celebrate adoptive families across the country. According to Barack Obama in his Presidential Proclamation of National…
By Scott Lazenby In previous columns, we considered ways to adapt governmental budget systems to modern management principles of delegation, empowerment and alignment of organizational goals. Following Douglas McGregor’s work,…
By Ravi Subramanian More than a hundred years ago, our profession found legitimacy through two channels. The first was as a solution to fight the corrupt spoils system in government. The…
By Rod Erakovich, William Carroll, Chelsea Smith, Tunde Campbell and Leo Wright Good governance requires good public servants. A focus on public administration and its efforts to combat corruption are…