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Teaching through Multimedia to Bring Humor and Laughter into Public Administration Classrooms
Incorporating multiple media in Public Administration (PA) instructional design facilitates simultaneous access to the educational benefits that each can offer individually. Building on this convenience, instructors can focus attention on…
Ending Mystery Health Care Pricing
No one would go to a hair salon, a dry cleaner or a restaurant that refused to reveal prices in advance. So why are Americans forced to accept this ambiguity…
Questions in the Aftermath of Deconstruction: Public Administration in a Transforming World
What makes today’s deconstruction different is that a rollback in federal regulatory reach—as expected from Republican administrations—is just one component of a transformation being wrought in public administration. Deconstruction represents…
Building Public Spaces for Women in Pakistan
Pakistani women’s participation in the workforce has increased by over 50 percent in the last 15 years. However, despite these gains, women’s access to public spaces and their participation in…
Update on Water for Toledo
Toledo last made national news for its water plant four years ago when routine monitoring detected microcystin – a toxin produced by the harmful blue-green algae. The Water Department immediately…
Partisan Opposition and Ethical Leadership
Public administrators who neglect the dynamic interaction between partisans and authorities—especially city managers who serve at the pleasure of politically divided city councils—do so at their peril. Just ask René…
Is County Government the Solution?
Last month’s column boldly proclaimed that “Local government is the solution, not the problem.” The theme was motivational, challenging past and current negative assumptions about government. Several types of governments…
Top Ten Improvements to Expect for Local Government Survey Research in 2018
In the last few years there have been several high-profile elections worldwide that pollsters got wrong, which has stained the face of the survey industry. The post-mortems on these elections…
Public Service: Building a Foundation Toward a Capable Workforce
Anyone familiar with expectations for public service knows citizens are interested in performance as well as ethical conduct.…
Improving Social Policy Through Innovation: India’s Biometric Program
For many people who live in developed nations, the need to prove their identity is often unnecessary, and the ease of doing so is taken for granted. However, in India,…
Good Times Bad Times: America’s Modern Gas Curse
Natural gas, as America’s bridge fuel to alternative energies, provides well-paying jobs, enhances energy consumption, yields immediate government revenues and fosters energy independence. Yet, while many reports and data evidence…
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