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The Benefits of Integrative Learning Techniques in Undergraduate Public Administration Classes
One of Gregg Buckingham’s central teaching tenets is providing students with opportunities in class to do what public administrators do in their professional lives. The intent is to help students…
Governor Favorability Ratings as an Accurate Reflection of Effective Public Management? A Need for Further Areas of Research
In an era of heightened political divisiveness, favorability ratings published for each of the 50 state executives can either bolster existing public contempt or fortify established support along ideological lines.…
Gunning for Understanding: Facebook and the Gun Control Debate in America
Guns, an American Conversation has served to demonstrate that technology can be used for noble aims in democratic participation. Facebook’s ability to connect individuals who may have never otherwise met…
Social Equity, Health and Healthy Food Access
Improved health outcomes are a broad policy and social equity concern. Access to fresh, healthy and less processed foods is a key factor in health outcomes. Reducing areas without access…
The First Step Toward Restorative Justice for Native Americans and African Americans Is an Official Apology
This is the second in a series of columns related to achieving restorative justice for Native Americans and African Americans. These groups are living with the pervasive, negative consequences of…
The Far-Reaching Impacts of Work on Democracy
In our current democracy, we struggle to balance polarized issues such as freedom and authority, justice and due process, diversity and equality, human rights and communal obligations, and participation and…
Celebrating the Fight for Women’s Suffrage: An Interview with Nancy Tate
Lauren Bock Mullins recently took time to interview Nancy Tate, former executive director of the national League of Women Voters, about her time at the League, the struggle for women…
Is the United States Government at Risk of Failing?
Over decades, the federal government’s workforce has been both burdened and demeaned, putting government at risk of simply failing in the face of a national crisis—or multiple domestic or foreign…
Gross National Happiness: An Alternate Way to Measure Wealth
Bhutan’s claim to fame must be the country’s innovative Gross National Happiness (GNH) policy. Instead of measuring the country’s total wealth in economic, materialistic terms, as our model of Gross…
The President of These United States: Television Presidents and 21st Century Government
There are multiple hit TV shows that create alternate realities for the presidency. For those of us who are students, scholars and practitioners of public administration, the scripted Administrations are…
State and Local Education Have Dinner Together: Who’ll Pick Up the Check?
Whoever brings the money to a part of public education shall enjoy majority control. In some cases, funds have flowed from the localities to the state and then back to…
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