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28 April 2017 | The Role of the Pubic Administrators and Some Implications to Our Programs, By Stuart Bretschneider*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

I further argued that the professionally competent public administrator had to have sufficient training in designing such contracts (e.g. corporate and public finance) as to prevent that rent seeking outcomes. Think of this as a min-max strategy. Nevertheless, how many of our program provide this level of capacity in our graduates.

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Public Administration Under Trump: An Age of Institutional Decline? By Don Moynihan

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

prides itself on a reverence to the constitution, and on being “a government of laws, not of men,” in the words of John Adams. Bush era, appointees in the Justice Department broke the law when they used ideological screens for career positions. Contracting and Accountability. Institutional Structures and Norms.