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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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

For example, a public manager can use interfund transfers to move money from the General Fund, the primary fund used for government activity, to a Capital Project Fund to help pay for the construction of a new government administrative building.

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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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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. However, we should be using American government as the basis for a more applied education in public service.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Making Public Administration a Design Science. Public Administration Review, 70 (Suppl. Strategic thinking, acting, and learning begin with deliberative argumentation. Nothing else will do. References. Barzelay, M. & & Thompson, F. 1), S295–S297.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

Hai (David) is an associate professor of public administration at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. Evaluators Association in 1996.

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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. Manager relations.

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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)

MARCH 10, 2017

Ignoring the Experts: Networks and Organizational Learning in the Public Sector. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory , 27 (1): 104-119. For those of you that watched, you know that the President ignored that advice and in his speech warned of ‘radical Islamic terrorism’. [1] 1] Siciliano, M.D.

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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)

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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