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Ethical Curiosity: An Essential Dimension of Ethical Leadership

What about ethical dilemmas? How might public administrators develop the “ethical curiosity” that’s essential to resolve them effectively? Furthermore, how might public administrators lead their followers to value ethical curiosity…

Doing Evidence Right

Doing Evidence Right

For the two of us—who believe deeply that government can, should and does improve the quality of people’s lives, but who also believe that as individuals and a society we…

The Big Questions Facing Public Administration in 2018

The Big Questions Facing Public Administration in 2018

Exactly what are the big questions facing the world of Public Administration in 2018? Over the next few months I plan to write columns on each of these questions, lest…

Undoing National Monuments

Undoing National Monuments

Environmentalists were outraged this past December when President Trump announced he was reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante. These were big…

How the Baldrige Framework Supports Customer-Focused Excellence

How the Baldrige Framework Supports Customer-Focused Excellence

This Fall, the Improvement and Compliance Service (ICS) within the Office of Finance and Planning of the National Cemetery Administration (NCA) hosted an event called Engagement Day. The target audience…

Is Your Organization Mentally Healthy?

Is Your Organization Mentally Healthy?

Public organizations are not immune from dysfunctions experienced in any sector. When should we seek help as administrators? What are the indicators of similarities between individual or group therapy and…

Funding for Services to Veteran Families and Children in Veterans Treatment Courts

Funding for Services to Veteran Families and Children in Veterans Treatment Courts

Over the last four months we have written articles about how Veterans Treatment Courts (VTCs) can incorporate children’s services into their courts. We discuss how to collaborate at the local…

An Information Campaign about Public Health Insurance Program Financing Could Facilitate Health Reform

An Information Campaign about Public Health Insurance Program Financing Could Facilitate Health Reform

Many Americans believe beneficiaries of means-tested public health insurance programs, such as Medicaid, do not contribute towards their coverage by paying taxes. They are wrong; the vast majority of U.S.…

Metrics that Count: Supporting Evidence-based Approaches

Metrics that Count: Supporting Evidence-based Approaches

For decades, public administration has pursued evidence-based approaches to decisionmaking, seeking to optimize such processes in public agencies. This will only work if the evidence is based on some form…

Cultural Brokering: A promising way of building cultural competent community based organizations

Cultural Brokering: A promising way of building cultural competent community based organizations

Community based organizations (CBOs) are agencies providing direct social services to people in their communities. One of the biggest challenges facing CBOs today is providing appropriate, quality and ethnic support…

To Secure the Blessings of Liberty? The Social Justice of American Public Administration

To Secure the Blessings of Liberty? The Social Justice of American Public Administration

A public administration driven by social justice… while embodied in the Constitution, to what extent does it materialize in modernity? Is it appropriate for American public administration to financially secure…