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Resilience—Are We Giving Up on Change?
The concept of resilience has embedded itself in many disciplines. Researchers speak of psychosocial resilience, disaster resilience, resilience of the Internet, educational resilience, ecological resilience and community resilience. Many of…
Leading for Change
Government organizations live in a state of constant change. Sometime the change is good, like reorganization that increases efficiency. Sometimes the change isn’t so good, such as a significant cut…
Collective Bargaining, Irate Taxpayers Drive Public Policy
“What is yellow all over, has eight wheels and sleeps six?” Answer: a Department of Public Works dump truck, observed by an irate taxpayer during a break time that was…
Government Employees Unaware they are Cyber Crime Victims
According to recent reports, cyber crime costs the world economy between $375 billion and $575 billion annually. Government employees are especially vulnerable to cyber crimes. Government information security incidents have…
Outsourcing Oversight through Open Government Data
Congress has a big problem when it comes to oversight. The federal government has grown vastly larger over the past century, but Congress has done little to empower itself to…
How ISIS Wins
The tragedies of recent months that are attributed to ISIS have brought strong reactions from many quarters. Some of these reactions challenge who we are as a nation and the…
Promoting Your Community on the Web
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization. By William Hatcher December 8, 2015 In the past, I…
Has Social Security’s Trust Fund Been Robbed?
Recently, there has been continued controversy about the Social Security Trust Fund. As stated by one candidate during the third Republican debate, held Oct. 28, 2015, “The government has lied…
Moving Beyond Budgeting to Adaptive Process Financial Management
State and local governments face a number of challenges including fluctuations in tax revenues, demands for increased investment into infrastructure, schools and social programs, uncertainty over federal funding and increased…
The Growing Crisis in State Pension Funds
The majority of the American workforce has some form of a retirement fund, known as a pension plan. What they may not realize is the growing crisis in the allocation…
Religious Zeal v. Ethical Competence
It’s one thing for politicians, the media and the public to call for greater ethical competence in the way public administrators make decisions and conduct themselves. But, it’s an entirely…