ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Human resources managers should consider unconventional candidates for untapped potential. It’s our enduring citadel to guard against the mechanized nets of automation and digitalization. Employers should never forget to extend basic respect to job seekers, modeling core courtesies which reflect dignified treatment.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MAY 27, 2016

Bob Behn of the Harvard Kennedy School is one of the leading thinkers on the subjects of public management and leadership. He has argued that public agencies are unlikely to produce better results simply by creating rules, requirements or performance systems.

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ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 20, 2016

How much lead time will HR need to replace me, onboard the new hire, and then have the employee report to me for training, in unison with the unit supervisor or the division manager? Will the replacement’s probationary period begin before or after I retire? To whom would they report?

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Andy Whitford

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Our new paper is now in print at the International Public Management Journal. The effect sizes, though relatively small, raise the practice-based possibilities that management- or nurture-based approaches might be complemented with nature-based applications of recruitment and selection.

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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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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

Our new journal, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG), is likely to succeed in part because of its “comparative boldness.” “We need to continue to be mindful of the need for research to inform practice,” George cautioned. The Future of PMRA is Closely Connected to Our Journals and Conferences.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MARCH 8, 2016

As evaluation experts (including RCT proponents) will note, RCTs are one tool within public managers’ analytical tool boxes, along with performance measures, process evaluation, cost-benefit analysis or cost analysis, well-designed quasi-experiments and other approaches.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JUNE 25, 2017

What principles can help guide public leaders—whether policymakers or public managers—in their use of evidence-based policy to improve results? Howard White ( @HowardNWhite ) of the Campbell Collaboration joins us to share four fundamental principles: Use the right evidence to answer the right question.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The recent election cycle was painful. Regardless of your viewpoints, it seems our civil liberties were nearly ravaged. Many opinion leaders are calling for healing and more tolerance. Lord knows, we experienced a wicked year of community violence and upheaval that ended with a federal campaign about a war of the words.

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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. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management. Guest Contributors: Hai (David) Guo and Can Chen.

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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. Not surprisingly, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about strategic thinking, acting and learning.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MAY 1, 2020

In other words, we either spruik the benefits of the neo-liberal, new public management framework of the past 40 years or advocate and even in some cases warmly predict the return of “socialism” or “big” government. Might the choice palette be more appetising than that sterile binary?

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 31, 2017

In fact, many of us have been teaching graduate courses such as public and nonprofit management, statistical methods, and program evaluation, which do not translate easily to undergraduates. We face a few challenges when developing public affairs undergraduate programs: (1) Differentiate from our graduate programs.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Now that we are approaching the next presidential election, there have been several moments that have made me question the election process, the elected candidates and the policies that are being passed on the state and federal level. A few months ago, I made a promise to myself to get more involved in local policy and to stay informed.

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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 19, 2017

Earlier this year, Dr. Marybeth Gasman of University of Pennsylvania wrote a Hechinger Report op-ed piece, where she argued that elite universities do not have diverse faculties because they do not want them.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

MARCH 23, 2017

and reliance on “alternative facts”, it is easy to feel disheartened about our role as researchers– particularly researchers who care about issues that are often central to public debates. In light of the recent election in the U.S.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

AUGUST 20, 2017

Bureaucracy ” in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. It was a great honor to receive the Beryl Radin Award at the 2017 PMRC conference at American University in June for our article entitled, “ Clerks or Kings? Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S.

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Paul Cairney

MARCH 5, 2024

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

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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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First State Insights

APRIL 13, 2021

Daniel Bromberg is the Director of Academic Programs at the Carsey School of Public Policy and Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Étienne Charbonneau is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Public Management at École nationale d’administration publique in Montreal, Canada.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

This dichotomy and more importantly what tasks fall into which category of the dichotomy, has created a complex history of competing interpretations of the politics – administration dichotomy, noting that as, originally framed, it was intended to detach partisan politics and patronage from sound public management. Manager relations.

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ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Horrible derailments are not reserved for commuter trains. Americans’ trust of the two major candidates for president has crashed , too. The good news is that not everything believed about national candidates or national conditions is believed about local government.

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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). The results were surprising.

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ASPA National Weblog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

I’m not sure if it’s because I am a millennial and tend to “overshare” on the internet or if it’s because after several blog posts I feel like we know each other, but I wanted to share that this past weekend I got married! To my excitement, the first presidential debate coincided with the first day of my honeymoon.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

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]. S., & Khademian, A. Governance , 20 (2), 305-324. viii] Rohr, J.

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ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Boss Tweed depicted by Thomas Nast in a wood engraving published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. Whether for a nation or even an organization, the nomination process is crucial in determining who gets elected. William “Boss” Tweed famously figured this out when he ran New York City from Tammany Hall in the 1860s.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

The proposed Director of the Office of Management and Budget, charged with keeping the governments financial house in order, is best known for championing government shutdowns and defaulting on debt payments in order to pursue social issues such as defunding Planned Parenthood. What does the public make of all of this?

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

APRIL 28, 2017

Foundation Professor of Organization Design and Public Management | Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD) | Arizona State University. Ask your students if divided government is bad and we should be strive for less conflict in policy making? I would be interested in what you hear.

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