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The American Society for Public Administration is the largest and most prominent professional association for public administration. It is dedicated to advancing the art, science, teaching and practice of public and non-profit administration.
The American Society for Public Administration is the largest and most prominent professional association for public administration. It is dedicated to advancing the art, science, teaching and practice of public and non-profit administration.
Creating Positive Change through Community Engagement
With the national mid-term election over in the United States, many students and faculty who invested in the democratic process of campaigns may be waking up and asking what additional…
Facts Matter, and We Can Show our Students Exactly How
Every fall my budgeting and financial management students play the part of a legislative budget analyst. They take a real Wisconsin budget proposal, analyze it, and present it to the…
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…
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…
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…
Meaning First: Government Service at a Crossroads
I have long argued that there is a “crisis of meaning” in government, one that poses significant implications for engagement and resilience, well-being and health, and performance and innovation. …
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