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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

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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Chapter 4. The Transformation of the UK State

Paul Cairney

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

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Calibrating Public Accountability

First State Insights

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.

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Harry P. Hatry, Leader and Performance Management Pioneer, dies at 92

Barrett & Greene

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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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

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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Who Gets Elected?

ASPA National Weblog

Gilens and Page found “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non- significant impact upon public policy.”. China has figured out the same thing.

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