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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. Image: Wikipedia. Public Administration Review,72 (4), 526-535. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02551.x.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami. Disaster subcultures.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011. 7) Meeting people where they are is not just a metaphor for social media but I think an extension of how the Obama administration has attempted to operate a particular type of constituent outreach. Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. Look out world.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In this case, that means that primary market lenders, a very important constituency in the U.S. 5] This was the policy of the FHFA when it was under the control of Acting Director Edward Demarco (2009 to very early 2014). In this paper, I will utilize this economic G-fee, i.e., 0.46 percent, unless otherwise specified. [5]

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