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. The missing elements are leadership and commitment by our political masters and those responsible for leading the bureaucracy.

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Monica Sanders, Managing Director of the Georgetown Environmental Justice Program, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about the need to consider and address the digital divide in recovery.

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First State Insights

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dr. Cotton’s primary research interests include career success, developmental networks, talent management, cross-cultural management, and leadership. To learn more about the Institute for Public Administration, visit ipa.udel.edu. To learn more about the Institute for Public Administration, visit ipa.udel.edu.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

In many instances, individuals in leadership positions derive power from their access to information that is not widely available to the rest of the organization they lead. This offered elites in leadership roles a sort of double wall of protection from unflattering information reaching the public. Leadership and Information.

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First State Insights

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Linda Parkowski, Executive Director of the Kent Economic Partnership, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about encouraging economic development in Central Delaware.

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Sarah Ruffcorn, President of Trinity Logistics, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about her team’s ongoing adjustment to the remote work environment. As President, Sarah leads all aspects of Trinity Logistics.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

And how Black elected leadership didn't make a lot of difference to urban outcomes compared to their more recent white predecessors. I was thinking about this in terms of how many center cities around that time, majority Black, were starting to become Black led, although this was another 5-8 years after Roxbury.

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Khary DeWitt, President of Mountaineer Logistics, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about his company’s entry into the logistics sector. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

I have been very impressed with the leadership of Don Moynihan, from whom I often receive official emails or documents at 1:00 in the morning. The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) has become a “different kind of beast” when compared to other public administration journals.

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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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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

They have impressive government and industry experience and will cover topics such as IT; diversity, equity and inclusion; workforce management; process improvement; leadership; career building; and customer experience, to name just a few. Moffat is a mom, civil servant, community volunteer, and leadership coach.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Initially scanning through the pages, I became confused, apparently like so many other women readers before me , I wanted to know why “Lean In” was less story about her compelling leadership and more like a Gender Studies 101 class in a liberal arts college. What are we doing to ourselves sisters? Image: Time Magazine.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Bowser’s six D.C.

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zencity

JANUARY 3, 2022

National Forum for Black Public Administrators 2022: Prism of Possibilities. ICMA Annual is the biggest conference of the year for city and county leadership and allows us to connect with the largest number of our customers. California, here we come! When: March 30 – April 3, 2022 Where: Grand Rapids, MI.

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Masters in Public Administration

JUNE 13, 2011

Public administration has a rich history that dates back to the Greeks. Public administration is putting laws in action to better serve a civilization and the public. Here’s a look at 10 interesting facts about the history of public administration. Public administration is an ever evolving area.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

) , Governing Books, 2016 John Pickering, Gerald Brokaw, and Anton Gardner, Building High-Performance Local Governments: Case Studies in Leadership at All Levels , Greenleaf Book, 2014 Kaifeng Yang and Marc Holzer, The Performance-Trust Link: Implications for Performance Measurement , Public Administration Review, January/February 2006 Also, (..)

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First State Insights

MAY 12, 2023

After starting her career as a reporter at several newspapers, including The News Journal, Allison has spent the past 20 years in various communications and community leadership roles in Delaware. This episode was recorded on March 20, 2023, for First State Insights, a podcast presented by the Institute for Public Administration (IPA).

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Regionalization of services and public-private partnership (“P3’s”) are among the greatest sources of opportunity for PBB communities (at the 2016 PBB Conference, the PBB data-mine demonstrated $409million in opportunities among PBB communities alone in 2016).

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

This short essay puts the case for coming together to put pressure on the new leadership to improve British civil protection. The devolved administrations and metropolitan mayoralities are the nearest Britain comes to having a regional tier of public administration. The regional tier.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

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. It was this difference that became known as the politics-administration dichotomy. Image: Wikipedia. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1988.tb00060.x.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Regarding the topic of followership and technology, particularly in the realm of social media there seems to be a gap in the literature that should be resolved as it pertains to participation, technology, followership and public administration. In Search of the Secret Public Participation Recipe: Commentary. References.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 23, 2022

All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. Strong links should be developed between the emergency planners in private sector concerns and emergency planning and management departments at appropriate levels of public administration.

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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. Resource allocation is of the utmost importance to contemporary public administrators, and this model is viewed as prudent in that respect.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Van Ryzin, Behavioral Public Performance: How people make sense of government metrics , Cambridge University Press (2020) The U.S. Moynihan, and Gregg G. Government Accountability Offices Managing for Results in Government Jakob Majlund Holm, Successful Problem Solvers?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Public Realm as an Interconnected system, Slide from presentation, "Leadership and the Role of Parks and Recreation in the New Economy," David Barth and Carlos Perez, AECOM.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Putting a Bias for Action into Planning Agency Management: A Practitioner's Perspective ," Public Administration Review , 1986). . * A bias for inaction is a riff on the "bias for action" element of forward-looking corporations as discussed in the book The Search For Excellence.("

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement. But to dig deeper for the right lesson.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Strangely, this blog is not to discuss “Vaginagate” so much as it is to illustrate a trend in contemporary leadership in regard to politics and that is prohibiting elected officials from serving in their area of expertise, or at all, due to perceived and exercised power. Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. References.

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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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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

Public administration can be seen as the study of people, organizations, and institutions. Much of our work as public administration scholars has focused on individual-level outcomes or organizational variables, but in a context where we could take for granted a stable institutional background. Leadership and Motivation.

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