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Many Americans believe beneficiaries of means-tested public health insurance programs, such as Medicaid, do not contribute towards their coverage by paying taxes. They are wrong; the vast majority of U.S.…
For decades, public administration has pursued evidence-based approaches to decisionmaking, seeking to optimize such processes in public agencies. This will only work if the evidence is based on some form…
Community based organizations (CBOs) are agencies providing direct social services to people in their communities. One of the biggest challenges facing CBOs today is providing appropriate, quality and ethnic support…
Institutional structures dictate policy outcomes. This is a fundamental understanding of political science that has been explored in detail by thinkers from Robert Dahl in the 1950’s to today. This…
A public administration driven by social justice… while embodied in the Constitution, to what extent does it materialize in modernity? Is it appropriate for American public administration to financially secure…
When asked about the public sector (here limited to state and local government), citizens were ambivalent. They recognized and appreciated the services the public sector provides, such as libraries, public…
Difficulty cultivating citizen participation is nothing new. I do not believe lack of participation reflects a lack of interest by citizens. Instead, I believe it is a function of people’s…
By one estimate, there are about 90,000 public-sector jurisdictions and organizations in the U.S. alone. Not sure who has counted these organizations but clearly there are a lot of them.…
It has been a difficult year to be a career federal employee. I want to let current federal employees know this has happened before. More importantly, I want to stress…
When the United Nations (UN) announced in 2000 a 15-year effort to implement eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it began what arguably was the most significant worldwide effort to build…
Funding for Services to Veteran Families and Children in Veterans Treatment Courts
Over the last four months we have written articles about how Veterans Treatment Courts (VTCs) can incorporate children’s services into their courts. We discuss how to collaborate at the local…
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