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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It was supposed to go to Virginia Beach, but with opposition they cut that part from the project, expecting that once the system started operating, there'd be a clamoring to expand (" As light rail nears in Norfolk, Virginia Beach begins to reconsider previous decisions to not participate ," 2009). How come? ," North Jersey Herald ).

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October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

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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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

Woodrow Wilson’s essay entitled “The Study of Administration” (1887) detailed the study of administration and has been viewed as the beginning of public administration as a field of study. It was this difference that became known as the politics-administration dichotomy. Image: Wikipedia. Manager relations.

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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. 2011; Aday, et al.,

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Bush administration in 2002. First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011. ” Take a look at previous #SOTU (2009 – present) observations from Pew Center for Research. First high definition television broadcast of the address also took place under George W. Bush in 2004. Why or why not?