PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

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. Is this a desirable trend?

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

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. Manager relations.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

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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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

This blog post is an attempt to begin a dialogue among public management researchers about how we might begin to design research that would capture the life-cycle of a network using methods that allow the researcher to capture exit and entry of organizations, new governance schemes, and shifts in the task or purpose of the network over time.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

APRIL 28, 2017

Recent efforts by the new administration to change a wide variety of policies and programs has led me to look back at how our field has thought about the role of the public administrator. This is not surprising given that in that time period we saw the emergence of the administrative state.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

AUGUST 20, 2017

Bureaucracy ” in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He passed away in 2009; yet, his legacy in the field of Public Administration continues to live on. As part of his mentorship, he shared with us the data he collected as part of the American State Administrators Project.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

My background in public administration helps me understand the impact of Measure M. However, this will create an issue for the “mom and pop” businesses that have been there many years and are a major part of how the district thrives. This is just one example. I wonder if this is the best way to exercise the use of the funding.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 31, 2017

Public affairs programs across the country are developing undergraduate certificates, concentrations, minors, and majors in public administration, affairs, policy, and service. However, we should be using American government as the basis for a more applied education in public service.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

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. This year, I attended the ASPA National Convention in Seattle. One of the commentators lamented how do you get them to read it.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Making Public Administration a Design Science. Public Administration Review, 70 (Suppl. Strategic thinking, acting, and learning begin with deliberative argumentation. Nothing else will do. References. Barzelay, M. & & Thompson, F. 1), S295–S297.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

Hai (David) is an associate professor of public administration at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

MARCH 10, 2017

Ignoring the Experts: Networks and Organizational Learning in the Public Sector. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory , 27 (1): 104-119. For those of you that watched, you know that the President ignored that advice and in his speech warned of ‘radical Islamic terrorism’. [1] 1] Siciliano, M.D.

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