PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

This blog post is an attempt to begin a dialogue among public management researchers about how we might begin to design research that would capture the life-cycle of a network using methods that allow the researcher to capture exit and entry of organizations, new governance schemes, and shifts in the task or purpose of the network over time.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

My background in public administration helps me understand the impact of Measure M. However, this will create an issue for the “mom and pop” businesses that have been there many years and are a major part of how the district thrives. This is just one example. I wonder if this is the best way to exercise the use of the funding.

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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. This year, I attended the ASPA National Convention in Seattle. One of the commentators lamented how do you get them to read it.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 31, 2017

Public affairs programs across the country are developing undergraduate certificates, concentrations, minors, and majors in public administration, affairs, policy, and service. We face a few challenges when developing public affairs undergraduate programs: (1) Differentiate from our graduate programs.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Indeed, if public leaders and managers find that a planning approach gets in the way of strategic thinking, acting, and learning, they should drop the approach and try a different one. Making Public Administration a Design Science. Public Administration Review, 70 (Suppl. Nothing else will do. References.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

AUGUST 20, 2017

Bureaucracy ” in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He passed away in 2009; yet, his legacy in the field of Public Administration continues to live on. As part of his mentorship, he shared with us the data he collected as part of the American State Administrators Project.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

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. Hai (David) is an associate professor of public administration at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Steven J.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Harry Hatry, a pioneer of great renown in the field of performance management died on February 20th from complications resulting from pneumonia. 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.)

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The recent hurricanes have also concentrated our attention, including the President’s–if for just a moment–on the role and value of the action arm of the Constitution: public administration and public administrators. So what is the foundation of public administration? The study of administration.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

APRIL 28, 2017

Recent efforts by the new administration to change a wide variety of policies and programs has led me to look back at how our field has thought about the role of the public administrator. This is not surprising given that in that time period we saw the emergence of the administrative state.

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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. It means using your voice.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

MARCH 10, 2017

In particular, two domains were chosen which varied in their level of knowledge explicitness: (i) student behavior and classroom management (less explicit/more tacit), and (2) instructional material design and student assessment (more explicit/less tacit). Ignoring the Experts: Networks and Organizational Learning in the Public Sector.

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