Andy Whitford

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Our new paper is now in print at the International Public Management Journal. Here’s the abstract: In this twin study we show that the penchant for a particular sector of employment has a genetic element: monozygotic twins evidencing a greater similarity of sector choice than dizygotic twins.

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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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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)

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

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Photo Credit: Vermont Public Radio. Poet Robert Frost once said , “The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” Then again, there are those who are willing to work but can’t find a job. Today’s job market stands dramatically changed from what it was during Frost’s idyllic years in rural Vermont.

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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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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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ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If you answered yes, congratulations. You’re having fun! If you answered no, congratulations. You’re part of the global and national workforce that is the majority. So how do you create a happy workplace? The blindingly obvious answer is, “To have a happy workplace, get rid of the unhappy people.” There’s a lot of truth in that statement.

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ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Don’t get too excited by the title. No, I am not advocating for the mass retirement of men. Instead, I am making a case for retirees mentoring replacements before they retire. Take my retirement in 2014. After 36 years within state and local government (and in many roles) I filed retirement documents about 90 days in advance of my final date.

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ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 27, 2016

1 marks that time of year when highly ambitious, slightly delusional folks like me take on the self-imposed quest of writing a 50,000-word novel in one month’s time. The challenge is called National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for short.

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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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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

His publications and ongoing research fall into four interrelated tracks: 1) budgetary institutions and fiscal policy outcomes; 2) public engagement in the budgetary process; 3) local government financial management under fiscal stress; and 4) Local government strategic interaction and fiscal competition.

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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)

JANUARY 31, 2017

Public affairs programs across the country are developing undergraduate certificates, concentrations, minors, and majors in public administration, affairs, policy, and service.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

For the next several months I’ll be concentrating on writing the fifth edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations. 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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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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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

Addressing the citizenship and democratic deficits: The potential of deliberative democracy for public administration. The American Review of Public Administration , 40 (4), 376-399. The role of the public manager in inclusion: Creating communities of participation. vii] Feldman, M. S., & Khademian, A.

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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)

MARCH 10, 2017

Individuals across the organizational spectrum face complex work tasks and decisions that require them to reach out to others for information and advice. An important question is: “Which individuals are sought for advice and why?”

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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.

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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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