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Democracy—Yearning to Breathe Free
Democracy is not the day’s bargain—it’s the peoples’ choice. Our challenge in the current environment is to fill the voids in government that arise in the lives of our most…
Political and Administrative Implications of Proposed Statehood for D.C.
As with many other things, time will tell if the District ultimately becomes a state and how successful implementation of statehood fares. …
Cities Must Tell the Story to be Transparent
When you can report to citizens the results of their city’s work and tell them the story on a daily basis through electronic media, you have a transparent government. …
Police, Sentencing and Prisons: Maximizing Impacts of Criminal Justice Reform
For decades, advocates have been calling for criminal justice reform, only to be frustrated by systemic issues in police misconduct, sentence disparities, overcrowded jails and prisons and laws that adversely…
Using Machine Learning to Evaluate Public Policy
Machine learning is a method for public policy to embrace and employ.…
Defunding the Police: Is it Reducing the Safety of Students?
The Los Angeles Unified School District is redirecting funding to replace many campus police officers with school climate coaches. Will this plan create safer environments for students and staff than…
The President as Integrator in Chief
Mary Parker Follett saw the concept of integration as the highest form of conflict resolution, where the focus is not on different positions but on the wants, interests and values…
DSJ’s Welcome to 2021: Themes From Our Recent Webinars
If public agencies are to be ANTI-racist, all those involved in public service must understand the causes and effects of injustices, name those injustices and take active, diverse, inclusive and…
Problem-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning and Product-Based Learning: What’s the Difference?
It is the subtle differences in problem-based learning and project-based learning that significantly affect how students learn. There is also product-based learning. I advocate using all three PBLs to help…
New Scientific Advances Need Public Policy Governing Use and Abuse
The discovery of gene-editing has demonstrated infinite possibilities for correcting genetic problems, but there is a need for policy to evolve in order to guide the future use of the…
A Post-COVID Research Agenda
Those of us in the public administration community need a research agenda that is up to the task of understanding the post-COVID era.…
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