Masters in Public Administration

JULY 18, 2011

Anyone working in or getting an education in public administration can have loads of research to do and little time. Even items such as the difference between public administration certificates , bachelor’s degrees , and doctorate degrees , can all take up valuable time. FedWorld.gov. The official site of the U.S.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

One panel was several members of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) raising the question of what advice should they provide to the new administration and Congress. Kettl’s 2016 book Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence. Read Kettl’s book.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

In my experience working with city governments, I’ve seen firsthand cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Sacramento, and St. Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. What is a fiscal cliff?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As an advocate, my experience with trying to do "new things" in government, is that you only get one chance to do it right. There are many such examples in government. Incrementalism is a public administration theory proposed in the 1950s by Charles Lindblom. Let alone the city the energy to approve the concept.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

As six out of 10 government finance teams still rely on manual reconciliation , the survey findings echo this, in which 46.1% The most prominent issues include delinquent payments, lack of compliance and the complexities involved in collecting payments for various government services.

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Barrett & Greene

MAY 6, 2024

Over the years, we’ve chatted with high school and college students about the potential of careers working for state and local governments. Instead of trying to sell jobs in local government as though that had much meaning, do a better job at showing potential candidates all the genuinely exciting missions that local government leads to.

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Public Administration Associates

AUGUST 7, 2018

Municipal government in Wisconsin has become more professionalized. There are considerably more municipalities with administrators and professionally prepared department heads. Local governments rarely have the knowledge and the necessary time to properly recruit a municipal administrator or a department head.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, we made a request in the B&G Report for recommendations of books that would provide worthy reading for people who are interested in state and local government. Banfield, recommended by BJ Reed, Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska Omaha.

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FedHeads

JULY 11, 2022

The FedHeads got to spend some time reflecting on the productive career of public administration and government affairs lead for the Partnership for Public Service, Kristine Simmons. She’s seen it all!

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JULY 26, 2017

The Public Management Research Association—through its flagship journal, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory ( JPART )—has always stressed building knowledge through theoretically informed analysis. The role of nonprofits and nonprofit research needs to be better integrated into public management.

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Topics covered include the 2017 creation of the Innovation Space at the DuPont Experimental Station; aspirations for and early successes resulting from the Delaware Innovation Space; and how the ongoing dynamics of government, industry, and higher education collaborations set the tone for innovation ecosystems in Delaware and elsewhere.

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Prior to moving to New York State, Marilyn spent ten years working in county government in Utah. For more on the work of Marilyn and her team at the Dover/Kent County MPO, visit [link] For more information on the Institute for Public Administration, visit [link].

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a GS-15 looking back on 20 years in federal government, I had some amazing mentors and supervisors — and some not-so-amazing folks in my professional life. Opinions expressed are hers and not those of the government. All of us start somewhere. This post originally appeared in slightly different form on July 28, 2020. Favorite.

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First State Insights

MARCH 16, 2022

Ellory Monks, co-founder of The Atlas, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration, about major opportunities and challenges the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) presents for state and local governments.

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zencity

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s a new year, which means our team is here to share the local government conferences we’re most excited for in 2022. But by mid-year, as things began opening up, we were back in action in person, happy to see so many of our local government friends and colleagues! 10 Best Local Government Conferences 2022.

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First State Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Terry Tieman, Town Manager of Fenwick Island, speaks to Sean O'Neill, Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about how she became a town manager, unique issues towns are facing as a result of COVID-19, and her experience as a woman in leadership positions in local government.

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First State Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This interview was recorded on October 21, 2020. To view the most up-to-date flood maps in Delaware, visit [link] For flood information from FEMA, visit [link] Learn more about IPA at ipa.udel.edu. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0 This interview was recorded on October 21, 2020.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers.

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Mary Ellen Gray, AICP, Director of Planning and Development in Newark, Delaware, joins Sean O'Neill, Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), to talk about her journey as a planner and development activity in Newark. This interview was recorded on October 22, 2020.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 11, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services commented that the book is “A little book that will have a big impact on policy. Imagine a whole generation who can clearly communicate great ideas!"

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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

Cobol is Still in Play Some government agencies still run programs based on COBOL, a programming language dating to the 1950s. But they’re like your appendix or wisdom teeth: They’re of little interest until they hurt. Here are five symptoms of legacy systems that should be updated or replaced before they cause problems.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: A damning, 72-page report the agency authored portrays a housing authority in disarray and at risk of defaulting on its agreement with the federal government. How are these multiple failures not an indictment of the capacity of the DC Government to manage and act? (" HUD report on D.C. But he didn't.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

AUGUST 9, 2022

However, today it dominates many aspects for how people communicate in their personal lives and is of increasing importance in business and government. My guest today is Dr. Claire Connolly Knox with the University of Central Florida where she is an Associate Professor of Public Administration.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

They all have city governments that can range from a department of thousands to a temporary meeting place with a part time staff. Although the average citizen may just think of government as an entity that solely exists to tax and spend, there is more going on than that. There are also other city government resources.

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 10, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote a B&G report titled “ Is Speedy Government Good Government? ” Delay in gathering, analyzing and disseminating data can also lead people to believe that state or local governments aren’t making things better for them. Jumping into new initiatives.

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FedHeads

JANUARY 4, 2021

The Federal Government's fiscal health has been on the decline for decades and the need for investment in pandemic response and economic recovery hasn't helped. link] The Federal Government's fiscal health has been on the decline for decades and the need for investment in pandemic response and economic recovery hasn't helped.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This kind of thing happens all-too-frequently to us, and to others who have been around the world of state and local government for a while. We were talking about this with Marc Holzer the well-known public administration scholar who got is PhD from the University of Michigan in 1971. They’re re-inventing things all the time.

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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.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The response to these floods revealed a lack of crucial connections in civil protection between the federal government and the states. In far too many places around Europe and the world, the providers of knowledge and the decision makers in public administration are engaged in a dialogue of the deaf.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Why are CLTs a useful tool?

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Over the course of time, we’ve written repeatedly about the confusion many Americans have about which level of government provides which services. But in the past, we’ve largely omitted confusion about the services provided by localities that are generally thought of as the province of the federal government. The answer is very few.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Practices and procedures for successful redevelopment are supported by lobbying efforts, public administration, policy, federal funding, and the efforts of non-profits dedicated to neighborhood revitalization. government material) All rights reserved.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

Are some governance models more effective than others for different stages of the network life-cycle? If there is a new governance mechanism, would that be the same network or a new one? Networks in Public Administration Scholarship: Understanding Where We Are and Where We Need to Go. Let the dialogue begin! References.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 25, 2023

Commissioner Thiel is currently enrolled in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania and he has also completed: doctoral coursework in Public Administration and Public Policy at Arizona State University (ABD) and George Mason University, respectively; a MSc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A point in the book Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1999 about Black "takeover of public school boards" is pretty apt, that Blacks could get control only once resources for improvement were pretty much dissipated.

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