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Chapter 4. The Transformation of the UK State

Paul Cairney

This post introduces chapter 4 of Politics and Policy Making in the UK by Paul Cairney and Sean Kippin. State transformation describes a collection of major changes to policy and policymaking from the ‘post-war settlement’ … Continue reading → What do we mean by state transformation?

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

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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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

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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Harry P. Hatry, Leader and Performance Management Pioneer, dies at 92

Barrett & Greene

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. We will miss his warm smile and his brilliant mind.”

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Who Gets Elected?

ASPA National Weblog

In a 2014 paper in Perspectives on Politics , Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page stated America’s government is demonstrably responsive to the “economic elite and organized business interests.” China has figured out the same thing.

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