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November 2016 | The Past as Prologue: A Discussion with PMRA Founder H. George Frederickson, By Rosemary O’Leary*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

students who participate in our conferences, yielding a situation where “PMRA has its pulse on the latest research in public administration, current graduate study in the area, dissertations, the job market, and the changing nature of the subject,” George said. Are JPART articles read by those who do public administration?

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

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I was thus intrigued by a review of Whiplash: How to Survive our Faster Future (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2016) by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe. Making Public Administration a Design Science. Public Administration Review, 70 (Suppl. Strategic thinking, acting, and learning begin with deliberative argumentation.

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Why Washington County, Wis. Chose to Pursue Priority Based Budgeting

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Regionalization of services and public-private partnership (“P3’s”) are among the greatest sources of opportunity for PBB communities (at the 2016 PBB Conference, the PBB data-mine demonstrated $409million in opportunities among PBB communities alone in 2016).

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

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To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers. Yandle, Tracy, Douglas S.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

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After a similar experience in Mexico in 2016, I wanted to find a way to help developing countries implement affordable solutions to help predict and prepare for earthquakes, which is why I founded Grillo.”. At the time, some 300,000 people were injured , and 1.5 million became homeless during the 35-second-long tremor.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

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A key point in the iterative improvement of my writings on Vision Zero is focusing initiatives in terms of the "6 E's" of sustainable mobility planning (" Updating Vision Zero approaches ," 2016). Putting a Bias for Action into Planning Agency Management: A Practitioner's Perspective ," Public Administration Review , 1986). . *