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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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Boosting Emotional Intelligence-A Key to Improved Local Government Working Relationships

Public Administration Associates

Allison Wood Brooks and Leslie John in the May-June, 2018 Harvard Business Review wrote an article called “The Surprising Power of Questions”. The post Boosting Emotional Intelligence-A Key to Improved Local Government Working Relationships appeared first on Public Administration Associates, LLC.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Jamie Andrews is a student in the Master of Public Administration program at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. Hai (David) is an associate professor of public administration at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Steven J. Authors’ Bios.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Northern Virginia elected officials and stakeholders tend to be reasonably forward (not necessarily visionary) about the role of transit in the success of their communities, especially Arlington and Fairfax Counties--the latter because they think it can repattern land use along the Silver Line.

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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's also a failure of elected officials to not see themselves as "asset managers" and "risk managers." -- " Town-city management: "We are all asset managers now" ," 2015 -- " Municipal Natural Assets Planning Initiative, British Columbia ," 2018 What's up? Performance dashboards. I've been thinking about them a lot lately.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Putting a Bias for Action into Planning Agency Management: A Practitioner's Perspective ," Public Administration Review , 1986). A bias for inaction is a riff on the "bias for action" element of forward-looking corporations as discussed in the book The Search For Excellence.("