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Challenging the Public Administration Status Quo
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization. By Michael R. Ford July 9, 2018 In a recent…
Bridging Education and Employment in Summer Youth Programs
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization. By Jason Juffras July 9, 2018 Large cities in the…
Meet Cynthia, Deborah and Betty
Have you ever heard of Melinda Gates, Angelina Jolie, Oprah Winfrey? Of course you have. Have you ever heard of Cynthia Breyfogle, Deborah Stone or Betty Bagtas? Probably not. But…
Focusing on Employee Engagement—Talk or Action?
As I reported last month, one poll question was, “Looking ahead, which workforce issues are important to your organization.” About 79 percent of the respondents listed “employee engagement,” while 81…
Ethics in Public Service: The Case of Migrant Children
On our televisions, on our Twitter feeds and even in our everyday conversations, we hear the stories of migrant children who have been separated from their parents after crossing the…
Old School or New Tech: What’s the Better Way to Survey?
As time crunches and budgets shrivel, the cheap, fast, Web surveys become hard to resist, especially if the results they deliver were pretty much the same as those that come…
Promoting Leadership Roles to Both Men and Women
Research shows perceived effectiveness in leadership is found among both sexes. The traits of “good leaders” are interchangeable and advantageous to both sexes, rather than gender specific. So why are…
What about Libertarianism?
Most of us in public administration believe government programs provide important services to the public. We do not believe in extremely small or limited government. We believe the opposite of…
Women Working “Nine to Five” and Intimate Partner Violence
Why do women have less economic power? Because society views pay and wealth issues as egalitarian issues with “sticky” economic periods. idiosyncrasies. This “stickiness” is not egalitarian but elitist. Traditional econometric…
Why Policy Fails
In my last column I argued that political ideologies are by their nature too broad to be instructive, and hence they are not efficacious. In this column, I want to…
Process and Problem Solving in Pinellas County
Past columns in this series looked at county government’s capacity to solve problems by utilization strategic planning, based on the assumption that local government is the solution, not the problem.…
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