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Leadership, Change and Respect for Our Foundational Law

ASPA National Weblog

Thank goodness law and policy guides our institutional tradition in transitioning leadership. I saw similar personal hardship when entire industries were outlawed after the environmental laws of the 1970s, leaving families poor, homeless and broken. Now more than ever, it is time for civil servants to exercise the “civil” in our title.

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December 2016 | Does Public Administration Want Diversity…Really? By Leisha DeHart Davis

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Moving PMRC from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was a positive move for diversity and inclusion, but… The board’s decision to move the conference was based on HB2, the state’s bathroom bill that requires public restrooms to be designated for the gender of one’s birth. Court of Appeals). .

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Even as early as the late 19 th century, Woodrow Wilson observed that, “a great deal of administration goes about incognito to most of the world, being confounded now with political ‘management’ and again with constitutional principle” (1887, 211). [iv]. In short, the Constitution. S., & Khademian, A. viii] Rohr, J.

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28 April 2017 | The Role of the Pubic Administrators and Some Implications to Our Programs, By Stuart Bretschneider*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

While I believe that schisms in the Republican Party make this more problematic than that, from an institutional perspective we still have the system of Courts and Laws that slow down any such process of change. Some of my colleagues have argued that because the President’s party controls Congress, Trump is more likely to succeed.

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Public Administration Under Trump: An Age of Institutional Decline? By Don Moynihan

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

prides itself on a reverence to the constitution, and on being “a government of laws, not of men,” in the words of John Adams. Bush era, appointees in the Justice Department broke the law when they used ideological screens for career positions. Institutional Structures and Norms. The checks and balances of the U.S. During the George W.