ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Lord knows, we experienced a wicked year of community violence and upheaval that ended with a federal campaign about a war of the words. Our mailboxes were packed with campaign mailers costing into the billions of dollars that likely could have addressed much of our poverty.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. Manager relations. Public Administration Review,72 (4), 526-535. Image: Wikipedia.

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ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Individuals like Ross Perot, and now Donald Trump, have shown that a single person with the resources to finance their own campaign can drive the primary process. The way to do this is to shorten the election cycle and use public funds for all campaigns. These are not radical or even new ideas.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

But the Presidential campaign also told us much about the degree to which institutions depend greatly on informal norms. Public administration scholars will have to closely monitor the shape of actual governmental changes that take place during the Trump years. What does the public make of all of this?

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