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Our Minds are Made Up – Don’t Confuse Us with Facts
When we hear the names Columbine, Sandy Hook, Orlando and Aurora we now immediately associate them with the tragic mass shootings that occurred in each of these cities. Sadly, this…
DACA: Past, Present and Future
Although the DACA program became official in 2012, debates regarding how to address the issue of undocumented children in the United States have been ongoing. Attempts to pass legislation related…
Training and the Policy Entrepreneurship ‘Intention-Behavior Gap’ Amongst Public Workers
The goal of the proposed research is to answer the question: can policy entrepreneurship training affect the policy entrepreneurship intention-behavior gap amongst public workers? If so, how and why? …
A Getting Well Card for Survey Research
It has been a hard run for survey research what with the underestimate of Trump support in key Midwestern states and misses for Brexit. With these misses comes a…
Reducing Voluntary Program Administrative Burden: Lessons from the National Organic Program
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization. By David Carter October 3, 2017 Voluntary programs are a…
The Changing Face of U.S. Military Service
As our world and country changes so will our military to reflecting our society and the ever-changing world.…
Co-opting Civic Tech
The blueprint for effective public service is a moving target. Definitions of efficiency change from era to era and are often impersonal. Technology is that way. Each time we believed…
IT Does Matter
In each sector, information technology (IT) plays a vital role in driving innovation to potentially maximize profit as well as reduce cost. Indeed, is IT a strategic tool for innovation,…
The Personal Accountancy Lens of Society’s Intimate Partner Violence
In 1994, the federal government officially recognized intimate partner violence (IPV) as a public problem through the Violence Against Women Act and its subsequent regulations and reauthorizations.…
Evaluation Principles for Veteran-Serving agencies and Veterans Treatment Courts
If reports talk about what agencies are doing, rather than how well the clients are doing, the evaluation may be missing the point. The point is the program is supposed…
Accounting for Social Issues… And How Public Administration Saves the Day (and the Agency)
Agency accounting is essential to the social movement and its most problematic. As the executive director of a social service agency, the altruistic—teacher, social worker, counselor—wants to “save the world.”…
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