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25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

If looking for a degree in public administration , there can be more to it than just program rankings and salary questions. Because there is no one path to a career in public administration as there is with doctors or lawyers, what to do with your degree can be confusing. Public Administration Consultant.

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Fresh Blogging: The Top 50 Clean Air Advocacy Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

Clean Air Advocacy In these letters to the editor of Backwoods Home, readers gain tips on canning garlic and mixed vegetables. Clean Air Canada This is the Canadian site for clean air advocacy and goes into law and policy for the country. Clean Energy Websites. Websites for Local and Federal Clean Air Issues. Where does your city rank?

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Visions of Recovery: Reimagining Long-Term Care

First State Insights

Katelyn Andrews, Director of Public Policy at LiveOn NY, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about public policy priorities for aging and older adults and her vision for the future of long-term care.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The devolved administrations and metropolitan mayoralities are the nearest Britain comes to having a regional tier of public administration. With a general election pending there is an opportunity to produce some strong advocacy for the development of a better civil protection system. The regional tier. 1] Domoto, A.,

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington State DOT publication, School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students , is awesome. Putting a Bias for Action into Planning Agency Management: A Practitioner's Perspective ," Public Administration Review , 1986).

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Sidney Tarrow defines a social movement as collective challenges [to elites, authorities, other groups or cultural codes] by people with common purposes and solidarity in sustained interactions with elites, opponents and authorities (1998).