Remove 2009 Remove Books Remove Voting
article thumbnail

Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

He was also reelected in 2005 and again in 2009. Michael Patrick McGinn was elected the 52nd mayor of Seattle in November of 2009. Located in Missouri, he often updates readers on the state of the city but has been known to go off topic for items such as books and film. Mayor Slay. Louis on April 17, 2001. Our Next Mayor.

article thumbnail

Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The book Community Economic Development Handbook is very good on microenterprise development and the development of locally owned businesses and the differential impact on the local economy. I argued for years that the move by the teams to DC from the suburbs weren't the reason that the Downtown East End began revitalization.

article thumbnail

10 Interesting Facts About the History of Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

1776 Adam Smith pens his book, Wealth of Nations which discusses public administration and specialization. The book focuses on the economic state of America and what creates a wealthy nation. Smith’s book becomes a benchmark for developing effective public administration that creates a capitalistic society. At this time the U.S.

article thumbnail

Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

This concept while widely dismissed by today’s scholars of public administration (Campbell and Peters, 1998; Levy, 2009) as if a true unadulterated distinction could honestly, actually, occur is commonly a constant and growing public debate particularly in developing countries. Manager relations. Public Administration Review,72 (4), 526-535.

article thumbnail

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). In a historical context, when viewing the snapshot of their nascent birth, we can see the peak of OWS has slightly more interest in America than searches for the TPM did during the groups’ peak in 2009” (Parrillo, 2011).