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World Cup Soccer and Policymaking: Strategies for Success
Winning the World Cup, or merely qualifying, as the United States failed to do for this summer’s competition, requires tactics and principles that can provide lessons for successful policymaking and…
State of the Nation in U.S. Healthcare: What Has Changed for 2018?
One short year ago, with inauguration of a new President and more conservative Congressional control, American citizens were pondering the future of not only the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…
Teleological Approaches to Wildfires
As leaders in charge of public safety, administrators must look outside the box and reframe their ethical perspectives in decision making. It is time to shift the focus of fire…
Bags Packed? Public Service Empowerment after Disaster
They are everywhere. I keep running into them - these people who deployed in support of the 2017 hurricane season. Voluntary organizations, the private sector – you name it and…
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.…
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
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…
Public Perceptions of State and Local Government and Cross-sector Collaboration
When asked about the public sector (here limited to state and local government), citizens were ambivalent. They recognized and appreciated the services the public sector provides, such as libraries, public…
The United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals and the Building of a Good Society: A Modest Proposal for the Public Administration Education and Training Community
When the United Nations (UN) announced in 2000 a 15-year effort to implement eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it began what arguably was the most significant worldwide effort to build…
Publishing and Perishing as a Doctoral Student
Writing, editing, submitting, revising, resubmitting, selecting… each stage comes with its own challenges, but the choice is yours to ultimately publish or perish.…
Dreamers, DACA and the Fourteenth Amendment
While it’s stated there are over 800,000 DACA recipients in this country currently, Rhode Island’s numbers hover somewhere around 1,200. Under the Trump Administration, only 250 qualify for DACA renewal.…
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