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10 Interesting Facts About the History of Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

Machiavelli also established leadership qualities in subordinates. In modern voting, this process is often called the political machine and is now done in a less blatant way. He also realizes that its most effective when you have a group of people who committed to a cause, versus a group of people who are being forced to participate.

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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. Campbell, C., & Peters, B. Governance, 1 (1), 79-99.

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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).

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Why “meeting people where they are” matters: 1) We are generally a passive voting audience, if you meet us where we are, in theory we are more likely to participate – right? ” Take a look at previous #SOTU (2009 – present) observations from Pew Center for Research. Why or why not? Sound off below.