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December 2016 | Does Public Administration Want Diversity…Really? By Leisha DeHart Davis

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Gasman’s op-ed raises the same question for the public administration field: do we really want diversity? To shed light on the validity of these assumptions, I invited comments through an anonymous Qualtrics survey posted on twitter, the Academic Women in Public Administration email list, and PMRA’s listserv.

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October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Networks in Public Administration Scholarship: Understanding Where We Are and Where We Need to Go. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory , 21 (Suppl. The State of Agents , a special issue of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory , 20 , i125-i141. Princeton University Press.

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November 2016 | The Past as Prologue: A Discussion with PMRA Founder H. George Frederickson, By Rosemary O’Leary*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

students who participate in our conferences, yielding a situation where “PMRA has its pulse on the latest research in public administration, current graduate study in the area, dissertations, the job market, and the changing nature of the subject,” George said. Are JPART articles read by those who do public administration?

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Returning to a Government of Competence

ASPA National Weblog

One panel was several members of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) raising the question of what advice should they provide to the new administration and Congress. Kettl’s 2016 book Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence.

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What's Happening with the Fire Service?

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

In May 2016, Mayor James Kenney appointed Adam Thiel to serve as the 20th Fire Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia. From 2014-2016, he was a Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Virginia. How do you measure up when it comes to experience and education? and 30,000 employees.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

can do to start working better together as a region (Baltimore Business Journal op-ed ," 2016), and I support efforts to do this for St. Later I suggested this for Baltimore City and County (" Opinion: What Baltimore and D.C. Louis City and County (" St. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

I was thus intrigued by a review of Whiplash: How to Survive our Faster Future (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2016) by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe. Making Public Administration a Design Science. Public Administration Review, 70 (Suppl. Strategic thinking, acting, and learning begin with deliberative argumentation.