First State Insights

APRIL 13, 2021

Daniel Bromberg and Étienne Charbonneau speak about their co-authored book, Calibrating Public Accountability, with Troy Mix, Associate Director at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration. To learn more about the Institute for Public Administration, visit ipa.udel.edu.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Many things have sparked a renewed interest in the vetoing process as I think about accountability and holding elected officials to a higher standard while they make decisions for those who vote them in. My background in public administration helps me understand the impact of Measure M. This is just one example.

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

Working capital management is a managerial strategy that monitors and uses current assets (e.g., cash, accounts receivable, and inventory) and current liabilities (e.g., accounts payable and notes payable) to ensure smooth operations. By Michelle Lofton and Mikhail Ivonchyk.

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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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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

He served for two years in the army at the White Sand Proving Grounds in New Mexico after which he became part of the then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s Whiz kids; a group which advised McNamara in his efforts to turn around the management of the Department of Defense in the 1960s. Evaluators Association in 1996.

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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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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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