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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"public administrators"”.
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Developing Guiding Options for Educational Curriculum for Public Administrators in Tajikistan
… control of the former Communist regime, the republic of Tajikistan has confronted numerous problems of underdevelopment which threaten to sink the republic in a new wave of authoritarianism and misery. Implementing democratic reforms aimed at modernizing a developing country requires a cadre of …
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Developing Guiding Options for Educational Curriculum for Public Administrators in Tajikistan
… control of the former Communist regime, the republic of Tajikistan has confronted numerous problems of underdevelopment which threaten to sink the republic in a new wave of authoritarianism and misery. Implementing democratic reforms aimed at modernizing a developing country requires a cadre of …
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Social Equity for the Long Haul: Preparing Culturally Competent Public Administrators
Each year, over 6,000 students complete Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in over 200 university accredited programs. Many of these graduates commit to a career in the public service in one of thousands of public sector organizations at all levels of government or in the non-profit …
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Illuminating Identities and Motivations in Public Participation: Public Administrators' Perspectives about Public Participation in Local Government
… projects. The CDBG program emphasizes that public hearings are a requirement to obtain federal funding at the state and local levels. Also, HUD lists several other public participation methods that can be used in addition to public hearings. Further, the extant literature on public …
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An Inquiry Into the Effects of Statutory Climate on the Political Attitudes and Behavior of State-Level Public Administrators
This dissertation examines ways in which differences in states' political activity laws affect the political attitudes and reported behavior of senior state government employees. Of particular concern is whether a stringent little Hatch Act engenders any "chilling effects" that may lead these …
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Administrative statesmanship in a government of shared powers
A normative theory of public administration grounded in the Constitution is examined in practice from individual, institutional and situational perspectives. This theory argues that public administrators should use their discretionary power in order to maintain the balance of powers among the three …
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Analysis of the Effects of Georgia House Bill 1113 (2008): A Case Study of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Department of Internal Auditing
<p>Ethical behavior on the part of public administrators has been understood to be one of the guiding principles of public service. When public administrators decide to cross the line into behavior that is not only considered to be unethical but unlawful, they have not only put their own careers …
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A theory of administrative conservatorship
… of the United States. The efforts of public administrators to preserve governmental institutions affords them the honorable distinction of being called <i>Administrative Conservators</i>. The theory of Administrative Conservatorship outlined in this essay provides an alternative …
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The Tholian Web: The Political/Institutional Context of Regional Cluster-Based Economic Development
… that need to be considered are the importance of public administrators, performance metrics, state context, institutional arrangements, elected officials, tax structure, and historical path dependency. The implication for public administration is that the role of public administrators is …
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Whose Hand to Hold? How Administrators Understand Eminent Domain and Where They Turn for Guidance
… domain remain in the forefront of academic and public debate, largely attributed to the United States Supreme Court's landmark 2005 ruling on the subject. Much of the academic discourse on eminent domain centers on constitutional dimensions of public use and just compensation or procedural …
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Meeting the Demands of Modern Governance: The Administrative Thought of Supreme Court Justice Byron White
… administrative law opinions and to discover what public administration can learn from a Supreme Court justice who took more than a passing interest in governance matters.This study has the following research expectations: • There is an identifiable White administrative law jurisprudence; • Within …
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Rediscovering a Fundamentally New and Practical Administrative Alternative
… dissertation explores the two primary types of public administration feminist literature, equity feminism and other voice feminism, and determines that they do not reveal a clear typology that practically outlines the characteristics of an alternative organizational viewpoint from that of the …
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The "Equalizer" Administration: Managerial Strategies in the Public Sector
… is to understand the managerial "action" of public administrators in the management of their organizations within the Brazilian context. The research seeks to understand the relationships between managers and formal management mechanisms by exploring the complementary nature of the effective …
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A process perspective on legitimacy for public administration: refocusing the national long-term care policy debate
Attacks on public administration are commonplace in today’s anti-bureaucratic approach to government. The legitimacy of public administration has long been questioned. Public administration is not one of the three branches of government explicitly formed by the Constitution. Further, public …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) in the public service: Public administrator perspectives on leveraging AI to support citizen and stakeholder engagement
… for engaging citizens and stakeholders in public policy formation. However, one downside of digital engagement is an increase in the volume of external feedback that can overwhelm public servants and political decision makers. One potential solution lies in Natural Language Processing …
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A study of factors contributing to labour litigation against the Swaziland government
… of managers. The Swaziland Government is a public organisation with an objective of providing public goods and services, of which service delivery is the most crucial indicator for the successful implementation of public policy. The policy is implemented by qualified officers, working under …
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Historic preservation: a study in local public administration
… This study examines the relationships between public board members, citizen interests, career public administrators and the elected appointing authorities. This research involved a national survey of over 1200 members of boards of historic architectural review. In addition, four town or county …
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The Study of Public Administration in Korea: The Executive-Centered Approach to Public Administration and Its Legacy
… if, and how, the executive-centered approach to public administration, which emphasized public administrators' unwavering loyalty to the president, intellectually shaped the founding and growth of Korean mainstream public administration in the 1962-1987 period. Specifically, this dissertation …
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The Constitution and the council-manager plan: public administration operating under a system without shared powers
… exploration of John Rohr’s normative theory of public administration by examining the applicability of the "balance wheel" role for public administrators to local government administration. Because local government charters contain no moral basis for action, and there is no oath of office to …
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