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To the Victor Belong the Spoils?
Given the current buzz about civil service reform, it is time to take a step back and ask: “What is the purpose of a civil service system?” The purpose of…
Cost-Benefit Analysis or Cost-Value Analysis?
Costs can be immediately quantified and calculated. In the project management world, costing methods are mature and robust. Determining the benefits of a project is still evolving as reflected in…
In Defense of the Bureaucrat
Today we refer to those running government programs as public servants to contravene the negative connotations associated with bureaucrats. I understand this inclination. What better way to depict those…
Academics and Legislators Come Together to Learn About Mental Health
One in five adults in the United States is impacted by a mental illness, according to the National Alliance of Mental Illness. Policymakers, researchers and the public recognize a need…
Confirmation Bias: Decision Traps in Public Service
Confirmation bias—the tendency to find evidence for one's existing views and to discount contradictory evidence—shows up in arguments about the safety of vaccination, gun control, climate change, the death penalty,…
From Trump to Minnowbrook: Navigating Current Issues in PA
No doubt politics, disruptive technologies and many other factors having nothing to do with PA contribute to declining trust in government, but those of us teaching and working in PA…
Alternative Facts are the Enemy of Health Security and Resilience
Lack of funding and political pressure seemed to stem more from disagreements over deficit spending and a focus on more immediate political priorities. The dispute over the number of deaths…
Ignorance is Strength: The Trump Administration Declares War on Science
The deletion of The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is just the latest example of a systematic effort to remove not only the role of science in federal decisionmaking, but the…
What About Women?
President Abraham Lincoln proposed a fresh standard for democracy when he uttered his hope that, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the…
Protecting Against Poverty-Stricken Old Age
We’re living longer and healthier lives, but an increasingly older population means an increasing pull on government entitlement programs. The rising cost of health care for seniors, the economic burden…
Disaster Lessons: Build Back Better
While public administrators and policymakers throughout the world, including the United States, have had to prepare for, respond to and recover from a wide range of natural hazard events, such…
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