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However, the big issues of 2018 were nothing new to PA; the administrative state has always faced legitimacy challenges, budgeting has always been about choices and norms are always changing.…
From my perspective there are not many topics as exciting as public finance legislation. But I also enjoy test match cricket! Here in Australia we have been through a period…
Democracy is now widely seen as the best method to use for national government. However, this dominance is less than a century old. The growing acceptance of democracy came with…
Some educational experts say that the general shelf life of a school funding methodology is approximately ten years. In Texas, ours is approaching twenty-six years old. Many believe that this…
Local governments must rapidly develop the technical capacity to utilize Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This use of advanced analytics will inform local government policymakers and empower local government…
Local governments must radically improve their efficiency if they are to survive and successfully balance between the National Academy of Public Administration’s four pillars of public administration: economy, effectiveness, efficiency…
As I write this column, the federal workforce is entering 2019 with a partial government shutdown and a pay freeze. This same workforce was subjected to two very short shutdowns…
Whether or not the public service community and its leaders are ready to acknowledge it, a fundamental shift in the decisionmaking process is occurring. Public administrators, at all levels and…
No longer can we in the public administration field just focus on just policy development, research and educating the next generation of practitioners. The world in which we currently live…
What of honest social conflict? What are the benefits, the dangers? The great Dr. W.E.B. Dubois once wrote, “either ignorance will destroy America or America will destroy ignorance.” We are…
Cultivating Leadership: Freedom and Responsibility
If organizations seek to cultivate leadership, they must first consider the virtue of employees.…
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