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Community Engaged Teaching
Many universities are focusing attention on community engagement activities. For tenure track public administration scholars, community engagement activities are often part of all three of their typical workload dimensions: teaching,…
Facing the Complex Problems of Climate Change and Sustainable Development
The work of public administrators requires managing numerous interconnected systems for the benefit of the general public. It includes organizing government, developing and preparing policies to improve the public’s quality…
To Fold or Not to Fold? Playing Poker with Tax Incentive Bidding for Amazon’s HQ2
Perhaps the hottest public finance topic of the last year has been Amazon’s intent to build a second headquarters (HQ2) somewhere in the United States or Canada. A million questions…
Barriers to Improving Government Performance
There is a great deal of similarity between public management challenges confronting countries across the globe. While countries may differ in size and levels of socio-economic development, they seem to…
The Pitfalls of Framing: Decision Traps in Public Service
Framing is critical in public service decisionmaking. In one study, researchers asked survey respondents to name the most important problem facing the nation. When given four choices and the option…
Persistence and Opportunity
This is a story of persistence, opportunity, failure and success by a group of dedicated scientists, geologists, hazard modelers, engineers, architects and educators who continued to fight and strive for…
Stepping Up, Then Stepping Back: The Dynamic Role of Law Enforcement in Tackling the Opioid Crisis
Most communities are struggling to get a handle on the recent opioid crisis. In some states, this crisis results in thousands of deaths each year. This is not a crisis…
Black Bodies and Law Enforcement: Three Broad Steps to Advancing Racial Equity
In recent months, there has been a steady stream of race-related incidents involving law enforcement officers. Whether officer involved shootings, violent arrests or their presence being required by a citizen…
A Bright Hope in The City of Lights
Participatory Budgeting (PB) is one tool that increasingly is being used in towns and cities around the world. It not only engages large, diverse numbers of people in deliberative, informed…
Clade X is More than an Exercise, it is a Call to Action
America must build stronger operational connections between its levels of government, refine its strategy for relaying crisis information, and ramp up its ability to produce and distribute medical countermeasures in…
Leveraging Media, Social and Otherwise to Connect Public Administration Research to Practice
How do I make my work relevant? If you are a public administration scholar or student, you have likely asked yourself this question. Even the most rigorous research with the…
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