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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Partly what got me thinking about city-county consolidation--places like Indianapolis (1970), Knoxville, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (2012), and what SF and Philadelphia did in the 1800s--was seeing mention of a Brookings Institution report about Pennsylvania c.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). Making Public Administration a Design Science. Public Administration Review, 70 (Suppl. What might compass over map mean? Nothing else will do. References.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The Civil Contingencies Act of 2004 is of debatable value, as evidenced by the fact that it was in effect abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency. The devolved administrations and metropolitan mayoralities are the nearest Britain comes to having a regional tier of public administration. The regional tier.

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Student Corner: The Role of Technology in CED Service Delivery – Help or Hindrance? The Example of SNAP Benefit Enrollment

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Research has shown it is common for SNAP participants to need help in applying, whether through government social services offices or external sources such as social workers, food banks, and non-profit organizations (Bartlett 2004). Carly Lappas is student with the Master of Public Administration program at UNC – Chapel Hill.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. First live webcast on the Internet happened in the President George W. First high definition television broadcast of the address also took place under George W. First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011.