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January 2017 | Thinking about Undergraduate Education in Public Affairs, By Mary K. Feeney*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Public affairs programs across the country are developing undergraduate certificates, concentrations, minors, and majors in public administration, affairs, policy, and service. We face a few challenges when developing public affairs undergraduate programs: (1) Differentiate from our graduate programs.

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

Many governments, therefore, have interfund transfer policies established that regulate the process of using interfund transfers to prevent arbitrary manipulation and misuse of public resources. We test this hypothesis using a sample of all 159 counties in the state of Georgia from 2010 through 2017 and find this to be indeed the case.