Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

On June 6, 2013 stories about a secret US government surveillance program that started in 2007 code-named “Prism” appeared 20 minutes apart on the websites of the Washington Post and the UK newspaper the Guardian. But the Obama administration, in the president’s first term alone, used it six times to go after leakers.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We received a tremendous response a few weeks ago when we published “A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance” by John Kamensky, a longtime leader in the performance field who we’ve known since the early 1990s when we visited him at his GAO office and he shared knowledge about performance management in New Zealand, Australia and other countries.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Ask just about anyone to name a few people they consider leaders and most likely you net an elected government official on that list. Woodrow Wilson’s essay entitled “The Study of Administration” (1887) detailed the study of administration and has been viewed as the beginning of public administration as a field of study.

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Betsey Suchanic, Senior Program Manager with the Urban Libraries Council, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about local libraries' critical community economic development roles.

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First State Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Dan Shortridge, the author of DIY Public Relations, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration, about how communications professionals and organizations should tell their stories and generate publicity for their work. For more on IPA, visit [link].

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

What is the most significant fiscal challenge for the municipal governments facing the unexpected outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic? It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies. Other cities have differently named similar organizations. My biggest criticism is that they lack resources and are given little in the way of technical assistance (not that the average Commissioner thinks they need it).

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

School of Public Policy and Administration, speaks with Troy Mix, associate director at the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration, about the history, dimensions, and future of engaged universities in the United States.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The undeniable fiscal constraints associated with local governance has challenged contemporary public administrators to achieve more with less. Budgets are stretched thin, and local government managers face increasingly complex service delivery demands from an electorate that loathes the idea of paying higher taxes.

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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.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

We believe that by “broadcasting” the State of the Union across social media and streaming video platforms we are helping American citizens connect to the government that serves them” (Medium.com/@Goldman44). but there are countless examples of people embracing the clutter and using the Internet to come together to make positive change.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In this edition, weve drawn from the same sources, but have also added contributions from Don Moynihan, who recently left the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University to become a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Manoharan, and Robert Shea. Moynihan, and Gregg G.

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