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Boosting Emotional Intelligence-A Key to Improved Local Government Working Relationships

Public Administration Associates

Robert Wright in an influential article in WIRED Magazine (10/8/2017) entitled “How Mindfulness Meditation Can Save America”, called this mindfulness as something we desperately need in our society and workplaces and “will make us less inclined to embrace and hand on to that “enemy” vide when it surfaces”. Kevin Brunner, PAA Managing Partner.

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26 July 2017 | The Creation of Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, By Ken Meier

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The Public Management Research Association—through its flagship journal, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory ( JPART )—has always stressed building knowledge through theoretically informed analysis. The role of nonprofits and nonprofit research needs to be better integrated into public management.

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21 August 2017 | Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy, By Christine Palus & Susan Webb Yackee*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

It was a great honor to receive the Beryl Radin Award at the 2017 PMRC conference at American University in June for our article entitled, “ Clerks or Kings? Bureaucracy ” in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. We are forever indebted to him.

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State Policies and How They Impact Us

ASPA National Weblog

The estimated revenue from Measure M is expected to generate $860 million a year in 2017. My background in public administration helps me understand the impact of Measure M. Improve job, school and airport connections. Create jobs. The Los Angeles County plan will increase sales tax by half a cent. This is just one example.

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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Indeed, if public leaders and managers find that a planning approach gets in the way of strategic thinking, acting, and learning, they should drop the approach and try a different one. Making Public Administration a Design Science. Public Administration Review, 70 (Suppl. Nothing else will do. References.

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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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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers. Is this a desirable trend?