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Big Data and AI in Local Government
Local governments must radically improve their efficiency if they are to survive and successfully balance between the National Academy of Public Administration’s four pillars of public administration: economy, effectiveness, efficiency…
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No longer can we in the public administration field just focus on just policy development, research and educating the next generation of practitioners. The world in which we currently live…
Honest Social Conflict or Dishonest Harmony? The Time for a Decision
What of honest social conflict? What are the benefits, the dangers? The great Dr. W.E.B. Dubois once wrote, “either ignorance will destroy America or America will destroy ignorance.” We are…
Realistic Public Administration: Revisiting Amelioration
When working with public administrators at any level, or when listening to the concerns of our communities, we often hear the sentiment that all problems should be fully addressed, as…
Infrastructure: Elixir for Long-Term Pension Liabilities?
Two primary drivers critically impacting both budgetary considerations and public policy processes for the foreseeable future regardless of revenue and service selection are pension liabilities and infrastructure. One tends to…
Government’s Workforce Problems Make HR Increasingly Important
Public employers are entering an era when workforce shortages will make it increasingly difficult to deliver basic services. For job families where government competes with industry—engineering and information management stand…
Where Have All the Statesmen Gone?
Apologies to Pete Seeger, but the cycle described in his 1965 song, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” fits our present discussion of statesmanship quite handily. There have been several…
Creating Competition — Without Creating Losers
Indeed, if the managers of every “team” has such comparative data, many may already be competing, if only in their own minds. After all, some of them believe they are…
Reinventing “Reinventing Government” for the Digital Twin Age of Public Administration
What happened to reinventing government in the last twenty-five years? Even if a reinventing government project succeeds, it is hard to sustain. And many reinventing government projects were initiated by…
To Teach or Not To Teach—Insights from a Practitioner Instructor
If your last contact with higher education was as a student or a brush with the system as a guest lecturer, you may find the educational environment to be different…
Rising Above “Fake News”: Is Unbiased Information Gathering within Public Sector Decisionmaking Still Possible?
Whether or not the public service community and its leaders are ready to acknowledge it, a fundamental shift in the decisionmaking process is occurring. Public administrators, at all levels and…
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