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26 July 2017 | The Creation of Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, By Ken Meier

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The Public Management Research Association—through its flagship journal, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory ( JPART )—has always stressed building knowledge through theoretically informed analysis. The role of nonprofits and nonprofit research needs to be better integrated into public management.

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22 October 2017 | Tear Down the Distinction Between Applied and Basic Research in Public Management, By Lotte B. Andersen

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

As public management scholars, we invest a lot of energy in doing research on public organizations, and most of us need answers to a very simple question: Why? Why should we use so much time to do public management research? How can public management research then actually contribute to solve real world problems?

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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

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.

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The recent natural disasters centered in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico have prompted many to look at government with fresh eyes. Earlier calls to “drain the swamp” seemed distant if not incongruous to presidential tweets that waxed confident, proud and even deferential to government and government officials.

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21 August 2017 | Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy, By Christine Palus & Susan Webb Yackee*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

It was a great honor to receive the Beryl Radin Award at the 2017 PMRC conference at American University in June for our article entitled, “ Clerks or Kings? Bureaucracy ” in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. What does this mean for government in action? Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S.

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10 March 2017 | Expertise, Advice Seeking, and the President, By Michael Siciliano

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Given the collective level of government experience among the President and his close White House advisors (Bannon, Kushner, Miller), we should pay attention to whether they seek and utilize outside advice when crafting policy decisions and from whom they obtain that advice. 1] Siciliano, M.D.

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28 April 2017 | The Role of the Pubic Administrators and Some Implications to Our Programs, By Stuart Bretschneider*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Essentially public-private partnerships, social impact bonds and other such alternatives are by designed to provide private firms access to public dollars in new and more diverse ways. political parties) from capturing and controlling all the branches of government and exercising unconstrained political authority.

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