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Core Marketing Functions for Economic Development

Core Marketing Functions for Economic Development

Dating back to the 1920s, private sector companies worked together to form economic development organizations. These organizations helped companies further their business development. Today, economic development organizations focus on three…

Plight of the Injured Worker: Reflection on Worker’s Compensation and Social Security Disability Policy

Plight of the Injured Worker: Reflection on Worker’s Compensation and Social Security Disability Policy

From a distance, policies can appear benign. Until brought into question, the magnitude of the obstacles embedded in policies are not illuminated. An area of policy plagued with obstacles involves…

Leveraging Cross-sector Partnerships: Lessons From Texas

Leveraging Cross-sector Partnerships: Lessons From Texas

In 2001, the University of Texas School of Public Health in Brownsville began research to identify health risks in the community. Results showed that 80 percent of Brownsville residents were…

The Shifting and Unpredictable Nature of Ethics in Political Organizations

The Shifting and Unpredictable Nature of Ethics in Political Organizations

Ethics in government and public service is under scrutiny. Any unethical action, no matter how minute, will cast a shadow on how we are able to conduct business in the…

Health Is Everything – But Exactly What Is It?

Health Is Everything – But Exactly What Is It?

In this, my final column, I would like to examine the concept of health more closely. The definition of health suffers from the same problem as the definition of pornography.…

When Transparency Fails to Produce Accountability

When Transparency Fails to Produce Accountability

According to the World Bank, more transparency brings more accountability. However many scholars, such as Sarah Mulley at the Global Economic Governance Programme, argue that more transparency does not necessarily…

Adaptive Administration: Public Administration and Constant Change

Adaptive Administration: Public Administration and Constant Change

For many years, public administration often focused on an established set of topics and “ways in which things were supposed to be done.” Evolution came slowly and revised strategies often…

Teaching Impact: Sharing Your Stories

Teaching Impact: Sharing Your Stories

I write this first column of the year reflecting on death and the meaning of life. Stuart Scott, the well-known ESPN sportscaster, died recently. In listening to the various remembrances,…

State of the Union Preview

State of the Union Preview

The president will deliver the State of the Union address later this month to update Congress, as well as the American people, about the general health and future of the…

New Principal Modus Operandi of Public Programs: Joint Action

New Principal Modus Operandi of Public Programs: Joint Action

The traditional, hierarchical government paradigm was the archetype throughout the world during most of the last century. However, the ever-increasing complication of today’s life with cutting edge technology, rapidly spreading…

A Collective Agreement on Efficiency in Public Higher Education

A Collective Agreement on Efficiency in Public Higher Education

For some time now, the public higher education policy arena has been flooded with ideas and debates on how to make institutions more affordable and accessible. To complicate matters, there…

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