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How To Implement (just about) Anything

First State Insights

Tom DeWire, Founder and Principal Consultant of EdScale, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about his 2023 book, "How To Implement (just about) Anything: Lessons from 25 years in public education."

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December 2016 | Does Public Administration Want Diversity…Really? By Leisha DeHart Davis

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Gasman’s op-ed raises the same question for the public administration field: do we really want diversity? To shed light on the validity of these assumptions, I invited comments through an anonymous Qualtrics survey posted on twitter, the Academic Women in Public Administration email list, and PMRA’s listserv.

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Public Administration Under Trump: An Age of Institutional Decline? By Don Moynihan

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Public administration can be seen as the study of people, organizations, and institutions. Much of our work as public administration scholars has focused on individual-level outcomes or organizational variables, but in a context where we could take for granted a stable institutional background. It means using your voice.

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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Networks in Public Administration Scholarship: Understanding Where We Are and Where We Need to Go. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory , 21 (Suppl. The State of Agents , a special issue of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory , 20 , i125-i141. Princeton University Press.

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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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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

can do to start working better together as a region (Baltimore Business Journal op-ed ," 2016), and I support efforts to do this for St. Later I suggested this for Baltimore City and County (" Opinion: What Baltimore and D.C. Louis City and County (" St. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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Returning to a Government of Competence

ASPA National Weblog

One panel was several members of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) raising the question of what advice should they provide to the new administration and Congress. Kettl’s 2016 book Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence.