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Adaptive Administration: Public Administration and Constant Change
For many years, public administration often focused on an established set of topics and “ways in which things were supposed to be done.” Evolution came slowly and revised strategies often…
Teaching Impact: Sharing Your Stories
I write this first column of the year reflecting on death and the meaning of life. Stuart Scott, the well-known ESPN sportscaster, died recently. In listening to the various remembrances,…
State of the Union Preview
The president will deliver the State of the Union address later this month to update Congress, as well as the American people, about the general health and future of the…
New Principal Modus Operandi of Public Programs: Joint Action
The traditional, hierarchical government paradigm was the archetype throughout the world during most of the last century. However, the ever-increasing complication of today’s life with cutting edge technology, rapidly spreading…
A Collective Agreement on Efficiency in Public Higher Education
For some time now, the public higher education policy arena has been flooded with ideas and debates on how to make institutions more affordable and accessible. To complicate matters, there…
Transparency in Community Development: Five Resolutions for Local Governments
Public administration has a strong tradition of advocating for open government and ethical administrative practices in our public agencies. The ICMA, for example, developed elements for governments to be more…
2015: A Year at the Energy-Employment Nexus
Green jobs, the Keystone XL Pipeline and fracking are relatively recent terms to enter our political lexicon, but they will appear near the top of policy agendas in 2015. The…
Ethics Training for the Public Sector Workforce
It appears there are daily news stories of a public sector employee’s failure to exhibit appropriate ethical competencies. With the number of these stories presented for public consumption, one may…
Open Government
What exactly is open government? This can be a difficult question to answer as our society has engaged the throttle for Internet access into overdrive. Our society almost completely operates…
Paradigm Shifts in Public Administration — Toward New Benchmarks and Best Practices
Previous columns dealt with emerging benchmarks and best practices in public administration in light of the high-tech revolution and the transition from the modern, industrial age to the postmodern, information…
Developing Leaders in the Public Sector: Masking and Cultural Competency
Masking is when an organization appears culturally competent, but its ulterior motive is to maintain power and control within a select organizational group. An organization engaged in masking may have…