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Funding for Services to Veteran Families and Children in Veterans Treatment Courts

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…

An Information Campaign about Public Health Insurance Program Financing Could Facilitate Health Reform

An Information Campaign about Public Health Insurance Program Financing Could Facilitate Health Reform

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.…

Metrics that Count: Supporting Evidence-based Approaches

Metrics that Count: Supporting Evidence-based Approaches

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…

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

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

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…

Governmental Structures and The Case of Regional Schools in Massachusetts

Governmental Structures and The Case of Regional Schools in Massachusetts

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…

To Secure the Blessings of Liberty? The Social Justice of American Public Administration

To Secure the Blessings of Liberty? The Social Justice of American Public Administration

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…

Public Perceptions of State and Local Government and Cross-sector Collaboration

Public Perceptions of State and Local Government and Cross-sector Collaboration

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…

Local Government Participatory Budgeting

Local Government Participatory Budgeting

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…

Hitting the Bullseye to Improve Employee Engagement

Hitting the Bullseye to Improve Employee Engagement

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.…

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

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…

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

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 15-year effort to implement eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it began what arguably was the most significant worldwide effort to build…

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