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The Role of Culture in Public Administration Across Contexts

The Role of Culture in Public Administration Across Contexts

The study of comparative public administration started in the United States during the Cold War when many former colonies had achieved independence and began to create their own states. This…

After Smoke and Mirrors

After Smoke and Mirrors

Playwright Arthur Miller recalled, “An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.” Management hopes rest in a positive institutional image. Avoiding negative attention is a…

The Case for Performance Management

The Case for Performance Management

After seven years of managing and implementing public sector performance management programs, I am constantly asked versions of the question, “If it isn’t broke, why fix it?” In other words,…

The Return of Apprentices

The Return of Apprentices

Local governments, as well as the private sector, are embracing a long-time business hiring practice – the apprenticeship. Throughout modern history, apprentices have been a key in developing workers and…

What Could Have Been — and Still Can Be

What Could Have Been — and Still Can Be

At some point in our leadership career, perhaps just prior to retirement, or leaving a specific position in mid-career, we wonder, what if and reflect on what could have been.…

Examining the Impact of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act

Examining the Impact of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act

To address the growing level of childhood health issues in the United States (U.S.), healthy school meal programs have been a strategy to improve obesity and fitness measures. To illustrate,…

Good Times Bad Times: America’s Modern Gas Curse

Natural gas, as America’s bridge fuel to alternative energies, provides well-paying jobs, enhances energy consumption, yields immediate government revenues and fosters energy independence. Yet, while many reports and data evidence…

Touch-a-Truck: A Tactile Introduction to the Public Service

Touch-a-Truck: A Tactile Introduction to the Public Service

Touch-a-truck activities also offer a model of how government can and does serve the citizenry. Popular culture presents to children an idealized version of the work of police officers, firefighters…

Suggestions of Bias in Rhode Island

Suggestions of Bias in Rhode Island

Psychologists suggest that our childhoods help shape the people we become as adults. I grew up in an overwhelmingly rural, white town. The school district was highly rated. My educational…

Teaching through Multimedia to Bring Humor and Laughter into Public Administration Classrooms

Teaching through Multimedia to Bring Humor and Laughter into Public Administration Classrooms

Incorporating multiple media in Public Administration (PA) instructional design facilitates simultaneous access to the educational benefits that each can offer individually. Building on this convenience, instructors can focus attention on…

Best Places to Work: More than Just a List

Best Places to Work: More than Just a List

As the financial crisis unfolded during the early years of the Obama administration, employees at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) were under tremendous stress.…