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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

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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.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

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Approximately one year ago, on June 13, 2012, Representative Lisa Brown (D-Bloomfield) uttered the word that runs ice through the veins and casts fear into the hearts of male elected officials: Vagina. Battista, James (2011). State Legislatures: Power in general has been notoriously difficult to pin down at even a conceptual level.

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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.

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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.,