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What Are Your Cyber Risks? A Systematic Way to Assess Cybersecurity
Imagine a scenario where you can’t log into computers or use the telephone, paychecks cannot be electronically processed, emergency services can’t access data or coordinate, front-line staff can’t conduct electronic…
The Data Briefing: Will an Artificial Intelligence Agent Be on Your Next Project?
I recently signed up for an online project management application which uses an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to help with common project tasks. Tasks such as notifying team members of…
Two Perspectives on Social Justice
Social justice, this familiar, but arduous to define topic, impacts many aspects of our lives. The difficulty in describing social justice is because of our personal perspectives on justice, equality…
A Post-Trump World
Public Administration educators and other academics in higher education must be active participants in the policy dialogue and debate what is needed to shape the future of our nation. There are…
A New Public Administration Paradigm Is Emerging
The field of public administration is progressively—and I believe unwittingly—shifting into a new philosophical paradigm. This paradigm is the antithesis of the historical philosophical foundations established by George Frederickson in…
Keeping Our Doors Open? An Overview of Refugee Resettlement Policy in The United States
Refugee resettlement in the United States is a contentious issue, and debates over resettlement policies seem likely to continue for the foreseeable future. In this article, I discuss how refugee…
A Salute to Public Servants
What can we in public administration do based on the current Trump presidency? One option is to practice continuous guerilla government in the form of whistleblowing, anonymous tips to the…
Blockchain: A Potentially Disruptive Innovation
Innovation in the public sector is always a topic of discussion wrought with both hyperbole and striking contradictions. Especially engaging is when the dialogue couples the inherent inefficiencies woven into…
The Politics of Contempt
We take for granted that politics is characterized by partisanship. It may even be that extreme partisanship is more the norm than the exception. Strictly speaking, partisanship is the expression of…
Pay Trumps No Pay
Today a senior staff member in a critically important national institution with a college degree works full time without a salary. This is apparently an acceptable state of affairs because…
Nuts and Bolts of Implementing Legislation – A Practitioner’s Perspective
Recently, Senate Republicans released a "discussion draft" of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This column offers an overview of how to read and implement…
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