Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

In many instances, individuals in leadership positions derive power from their access to information that is not widely available to the rest of the organization they lead. This offered elites in leadership roles a sort of double wall of protection from unflattering information reaching the public. Image: WikiLeaks.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Regarding the topic of followership and technology, particularly in the realm of social media there seems to be a gap in the literature that should be resolved as it pertains to participation, technology, followership and public administration. Image: Faggard, 2013. References. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

It's fair to say that in NYC Mayor De Blasio cares a lot less about this than former Mayor Bloomberg (" A Playbook on the Politics of Better Streets ," Bloomberg), and in DC, most elected officials are from "the outer city" where the automobile remains dominant (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement. But to dig deeper for the right lesson.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

While journalists covered the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements exhaustively, the body of literature in the academic world is still relatively small in examining outcomes based on these social movements; even smaller in public administration and political science emphasized journals. A study by Vragara et al.,

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Strangely, this blog is not to discuss “Vaginagate” so much as it is to illustrate a trend in contemporary leadership in regard to politics and that is prohibiting elected officials from serving in their area of expertise, or at all, due to perceived and exercised power. Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. State Legislatures.

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