First State Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Eric Johnson, Senior Editor of Technology at the Journal of Commerce, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about efforts to map, understand, and report on the companies, technologies, and business functions at the forefront of innovation in the logistics sector.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 14, 2023

by Hala Altamimi Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration, University of Kansas In the public administration literature, it is generally expected that city managers are likely to support practices that improve government performance. There’s little question that’s true for a variety of reasons.

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City Manager Management Elected Officials Public Administration 52

Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

cash, accounts receivable, and inventory) and current liabilities (e.g., accounts payable and notes payable) to ensure smooth operations. Lofton is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The reasons for this are many, but here are a few of the outstanding ones: The lack of consistent finance-focused public administration, governmental accounting, and governmental auditing instruction at institutions of higher education.

Public Sector 52

Public Sector Accountability Public Service Public Administration 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Just like DC's public housing fiasco, where 25% of the units are uninhabitable, the massive failures of Metrorail could have been avoided through the execution of sound management, accountability systems, and constant, ongoing oversight. It's an asset and risk management failure of massive proportions.

Management 52

Management Elected Officials Transportation Budgeting 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

John Kotter’s Eight Step Model for Leading Change It definitely shows lack of accountability and no sense of urgency to act -2,000 units could house at least 4,000 people. Council-approved appointees and her chief of staff and deputy mayor for planning and economic development, John Falcicchio, who is an ex officio member.

Housing 52

Housing Government Elected Officials Leadership 52

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 10, 2022

The program provides participants with Electronic Benefit Transfer cards (EBT), which send money directly from a government funded account to a food retailer—like a debit card. Carly Lappas is student with the Master of Public Administration program at UNC – Chapel Hill.

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Social Services Economic Development Public Administration Transportation 40

Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

Hai (David) is an associate professor of public administration at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 5, 2021

How does Australian democracy stop eating itself alive, burdened with growing levels of distrust and disengagement and invest instead in the steady rise of respect, mutual regard and accountability? quality and impact of public services. Making government more transparent and accountable. Improving the reach, access.

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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.

Leadership 40

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

The local government here strives to be accountable and accessible. You can choose from fire, water, and other Portland entries. One of the latest posts was on the proposed budget. City News Blog. Stop here to get news on the city of Lakeland, Florida. A Job Worth Doing. Mike Morgan is a city council member in Trinidad, California.

Government 40

Government City Manager Budgeting Local Government 40

Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

) , Governing Books, 2016 John Pickering, Gerald Brokaw, and Anton Gardner, Building High-Performance Local Governments: Case Studies in Leadership at All Levels , Greenleaf Book, 2014 Kaifeng Yang and Marc Holzer, The Performance-Trust Link: Implications for Performance Measurement , Public Administration Review, January/February 2006 Also, (..)

Public Administration 52

Public Administration Public Affairs Budgeting Public Policy 52

Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Staats award for excellence in program evaluation in 1985; a National Public Service Award in 1993; and the “Evaluator of the Year” award from the Washington (D.C.) In 1980, he became a fellow with the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) where he contributed to a number of white papers and studies.

Management 52

Management Public Administration Parks And Recreation Public Policy 52

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. In Search of the Secret Public Participation Recipe: Commentary. References.

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Social Media Public Administration Communications Leadership 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " Helping government learn ," (2009) -- " All the talk of e-government, digital government, and open source government is really about employing the design method ," (2012) -- " Creating the right program vs. the hype of big data ," (2013) -- " Does the focus on big data mean we miss the opportunity for better use of "little data" ," (2015) -- (..)

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Van Ryzin, Behavioral Public Performance: How people make sense of government metrics , Cambridge University Press (2020) The U.S. Government Accountability Offices Managing for Results in Government Jakob Majlund Holm, Successful Problem Solvers?

Public Policy 52

Public Policy Local Government Public Administration Public Sector 52

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.

Implementation 52

Implementation Leadership Sustainability Public Administration 52

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.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Links attributed above to phrases or accounts: [link]. Measuring State House Speakers Formal Power 1981-2010. State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 13(2), 262–273 DOI: 10.1177/1532440013484478.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and

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Social Media Housing Engagement Accountability 40

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

Public administration can be seen as the study of people, organizations, and institutions. Much of our work as public administration scholars has focused on individual-level outcomes or organizational variables, but in a context where we could take for granted a stable institutional background. It means using your voice.

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Public Administration Laws Leadership Government 40

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

APRIL 28, 2017

Recent efforts by the new administration to change a wide variety of policies and programs has led me to look back at how our field has thought about the role of the public administrator. This is not surprising given that in that time period we saw the emergence of the administrative state.

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