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First Responder – Who Makes the Cut?
Usually, in the first 24-36 hours of an event, life safety is of the utmost importance and leadership in these events falls to public safety functions in police and fire. After…
Public Administration: Do, Re-Do… Un-Do
An instinctive reaction, especially from our community, is to disapprove of this change. However, maybe our cognitive and social biases play an important role: we are loss averse. In the…
The Schoharie Limousine Tragedy – Was Government Part of the Problem?
Although this series of articles has presented the theme that government is the solution, these types of traumatic incidents beg the counter question of what happens when government or perhaps…
Inputs, Outputs and Outcomes: The Recipe for a Successful Performance Management Program
Developing a structure that allows for the collection of inputs, outputs and outcomes is critically important to the development of a performance management system. Understanding their relationship is the key…
Diversity on the National Security Council
For decades, the trend within government agencies and throughout the federal bureaucracy has been one of increasing diversity. Not only has diversity been shown to position the workplace to better…
Public Service Values and Motivation in the MPA Classroom: An Exercise
Recently, in one of my MPA classes, I covered the topic of public service motivation. In preparation for the class, the students read the article “Public Service Motivation Research: Lessons…
Fiscal Policy – the Universal Language. Respect – the Universal Solution?
Mathematics is said to be the universal language and if that is true, it must be true that financial institutions and fiscal policy are the most efficient modes of meeting…
The State of Public Administration Programs in Higher Education
Are we ready for the challenge of a new era in public administration education and service? We do too much good to shrink from this task.…
Addressing Slums in an Age of Rapid Urbanization
The definition of slums has evolved, and their true nature makes them the least well understood places in the global sphere. The catch-all term “slum” is used loosely, and its…
Public Administration in The Good Place
Public administration has a role in the afterlife — at least on the critically-acclaimed network comedy The Good Place.…
Power to Truth and Public Service
Truth to power is a rallying call to speak out in the face of injustice, to speak out against authoritarian regimes, to raise the voices of those vulnerable people among…
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