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Police Relations and Services in Town-Gown Cities are Changing in a Positive Way Throughout America
The public services provided by Police Departments to citizens and students in our nation’s town-gown cities are changing rapidly. This is due to the changing ethnic composition of our cities,…
Thoughts about Decision Making in Government
Public administrators go through a two-step process in making decisions. First, they determine what the applicable law requires. If they have discretion, they make decisions pretty much like everyone else.…
Academic Inequality in the Urban School Setting: Funding Disparities that Lead to Educational Disadvantages
Education is key in the formation of a well-educated society where dreams are met, goals are achieved and the economic systems of our country flourish as students’ graduate college and…
Public Administrators Leading a Multi-Generational Workforce
Effective leadership cannot afford to have unconscious bias affecting the goals of the organization and the cohesiveness of teams within the organization.…
Enterprise Risk Management and the Public Sector
The use of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in the public sector is increasing. ERM is a methodology designed to assist management in identifying and mitigating risks that adversely impact the…
Practicing Public Service Values: Inclusion and Diversity in the Classroom
As public service educators, it is increasingly important we exemplify and embody those key public values that we seek to instill in our students. While concepts like accountability and ethics…
Defining the Mission of Cyberspace Organizations
While many federal agencies have developed a results-based performance management culture, the notion of results-based cyber performance continues to remain largely undefined.…
Lessons from the Government Shutdown
Needs are infinite, resources are finite and values are contested. Such is the reality of public administration in a democracy, and public employees are used to working effectively under this…
Where Have All the Practitioners Gone? Securing the Active Practitioner for Adjunct Instruction
As a former practitioner who transitioned after 20 years into academia, pulling practicing public managers into the classroom as adjuncts is a priority. Professional public managers who serve as adjunct…
Advancing the Research and Practice Agenda on Local Government-Nonprofit Relationships in Developing Countries
The work of scholars and practitioners has not thoroughly examined the relationships between local governments and NGOs in developing countries. For most part, the focus primarily is on developed countries…
Lagging and Leading Indicators of Government Performance Management
All performance indicators can be broadly divided into two categories – lagging indicators and leading indicators. Lagging indicators measure the current results of our past efforts, whereas leading indicators measure…
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