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Plus ça change, the more it isn’t change
By Laree Kiely This column is the last for 2013. Or is it the preview of 2014? Typically, we would do a retrospective on the last year, comment about how…
Town and Gown Relations: The Best Practices in the World
By Roger L. Kemp The UniTown Network recently held its first annual Town-Gown Relations Conference for representatives of cities and universities in the European Union. The City of Ferrara (Italy) and…
Perils of Privatization
By Sheila Suess Kennedy I have often written about my skepticism of so-called “privatization” of public assets. I say “so called” because Americans use the term inaccurately to mean contracting…
When Transparency Becomes the Enemy of Accountability: Reflections From the Field
By Stuart C. Gilman and Howard Whitton Everything is connected to everything else, as in the world of ecology and in public administration. Transparency seems to have become the new panacea…
Increasing Adoption and Reducing the Number of Children in Foster Care in the U.S. and Abroad
By Lorenda A. Naylor Introduction November is National Adoption Month. It is a time Americans celebrate adoptive families across the country. According to Barack Obama in his Presidential Proclamation of National…
I Trust You…Sort Of
By Scott Lazenby In previous columns, we considered ways to adapt governmental budget systems to modern management principles of delegation, empowerment and alignment of organizational goals. Following Douglas McGregor’s work,…
Corruption – An Enlightened Self-Interest?
By Ravi Subramanian More than a hundred years ago, our profession found legitimacy through two channels. The first was as a solution to fight the corrupt spoils system in government. The…
Corruption, Ethics and Accountability: A Normative Approach to Control
By Rod Erakovich, William Carroll, Chelsea Smith, Tunde Campbell and Leo Wright Good governance requires good public servants. A focus on public administration and its efforts to combat corruption are…
Broadband, E-Government and Development
By William Hatcher To succeed in the nation’s new economic realities, where creative class jobs are being pulled to localities with technology and talent, communities need to improve their broadband…
Kazakhstan Regional Hub Issues Call For Proposals
The Regional Hub of Civil Service in Astana (Hub) is accepting proposals for the second issue of its electronic journal. The journal, available online, is an academic publication for the…
How Will We Do Right By Our Veterans?
By Horace Blake American veterans are unique in that they are an honored demographic in the United States. These men and women have given their time and in some case…