New Imperatives for Public Managers

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Michael Stahl

When people hear the term public servant, they think of presidents, governors, legislators, cabinet secretaries, agency directorsthe political officials featured on news broadcasts, on political talk shows, and in newspapers. Th... More »

Managing in the Black: Understanding Structure, Culture, and Craft

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Sharon Caudle

Public Management: A Three-Dimensional Approach provides a surprisingly fresh approach for introductory public management graduate-level courses. In the books preface, the authors make clear why they wrote this book for graduate... More »

Image of Public Service: Working Together for America

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Craig Pettibone

The Coalition for Effective Change (CEC), which is made up of 34 organizations with a combined membership of more than 600,000, celebrated its 15th anniversary on June 22, 2009. The CEC came together in 1993 to provide a voice f... More »

The Challenges of Donation Management

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Frances Edwards

One of the lasting images of Hurricane Katrina is the mass of people outside the Superdome asking for water from National Guard troops who had none to give. People all over the world saw a city under water, and the human misery ... More »

Class and Crisis: Socioeconomic Status and the Ethics of Individual Experience

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Carole Jurkiewicz

Weve all heard the arguments post-Katrina and perhaps weve made the remarks ourselves: Why cant these people just pull themselves up by their bootstraps? They just sit and wait for government handouts. Okay, so it was bad, but w... More »