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Masters in Public Administration

He works in the town of Cooper City, Florida and was elected in 2007. Readers are even encouraged to join the conversation. There are also interactive resources on the budget for the viewing. John Sims, Cooper City Commissioner. His goal is to make government run like a big business. See more with a read of his thoughts and plans on the blog.

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Leaks And Leadership: What The Era of WikiLeaks Portends For Traditional Theories Of Leader Information Sharing Practices

Public Policy Blog

In turn, this creates a potential motive for centralizing information in the hands of a single leader” (Komai et al, 2007, p. On June 6, 2013 stories about a secret US government surveillance program that started in 2007 code-named “Prism” appeared 20 minutes apart on the websites of the Washington Post and the UK newspaper the Guardian.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

Regarding the topic of followership and technology, particularly in the realm of social media there seems to be a gap in the literature that should be resolved as it pertains to participation, technology, followership and public administration. 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND.

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

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? In short, the Constitution.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

While journalists covered the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements exhaustively, the body of literature in the academic world is still relatively small in examining outcomes based on these social movements; even smaller in public administration and political science emphasized journals. Boykoff, J. Boykoff, J. Boykoff, M.