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From Trump to Minnowbrook: Navigating Current Issues in PA

From Trump to Minnowbrook: Navigating Current Issues in PA

No doubt politics, disruptive technologies and many other factors having nothing to do with PA contribute to declining trust in government, but those of us teaching and working in PA…

Assessing Rock Island County

This series of articles continues the theme that government is the solution, not the problem, based on building an appreciation and understanding of its 90,056 local components. To refine the…

Alternative Facts are the Enemy of Health Security and Resilience

Alternative Facts are the Enemy of Health Security and Resilience

Lack of funding and political pressure seemed to stem more from disagreements over deficit spending and a focus on more immediate political priorities. The dispute over the number of deaths…

Equity-mindedness in Academic Hiring Practices

Equity-mindedness in Academic Hiring Practices

When diversity initiatives are viewed as only benefitting targeted groups, those ill-informed or resentful start perpetuating a counternarrative. That counternarrative: for every opportunity created to increase diversity, an opportunity is…

Governing Suburbia

Governing Suburbia

Governance, as a practice and a theory, is an oft-visited topic in public administration scholarship. Even beyond the questions related to efficient, effective and equitable governance practices, we often ask,…

Ignorance is Strength: The Trump Administration Declares War on Science

Ignorance is Strength: The Trump Administration Declares War on Science

The deletion of The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is just the latest example of a systematic effort to remove not only the role of science in federal decisionmaking, but the…

Making the Thesis an Option for Online MPA Students

Making the Thesis an Option for Online MPA Students

Online education is continuing to gain popularity. New students have many high-quality online MPA programs to choose from. One factor that can set a program apart from the pack is…

What About Women?

What About Women?

President Abraham Lincoln proposed a fresh standard for democracy when he uttered his hope that, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the…

Cultural Competence in Mental Health

Cultural Competence in Mental Health

Despite gains in our knowledge about mental illness, there is still much to learn. Without improved, increased robust research, there will be little to no progress in understanding mental health.…

Searching for Political Wisdom

Searching for Political Wisdom

A politically wise man would recognize that he is more ignorant than informed, more prejudiced than objective, in possession of limited intellectual abilities and constrained by his own education and…

Personal Relations

Personal Relations

American citizens differ in their political views, at times to the point of vitriol. We can disagree so fundamentally, yet find good in each other in the space between. …