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The Past Is Prologue: The Obama Technology Agenda

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Daniel Mintz

In Spring 2008, our The Public Manager article reflected on the progress of e-government under the Bush Administration and what it portended for the future of the new administration beginning January 20, 2009. While many of the ... More »

Telework Tango: Take Two, From the Top

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Steve OKeeffe

At my college, ballroom dancing was the largest club on campus. But ask as I might, I could never find a single student whod admit even a passing interest in the rumba. Lets cha-cha forward some 20 years: Government managers who... More »

Civil-Military Relations in Emergency Management

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Richard Sylves

Both U.S. civil defense of the past and homeland security of the present demonstrate that disaster policy has always had a degree of national security and military penetration. However, few appreciate how dramatic the latest pen... More »

From Flower to Garden: Katrina Electricity and Emergency Management

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Lenneal Henderson

Hurricane Katrina taught federal, state, and local public managers extensive lessons about the criticality of electricity reliability in a disaster. In the report, The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned, the ... More »

The Ethical Pothole: Tolerable Corruption?

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Frank Anechiarico

The discussion at the 2009 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) panel on professional ethics took an odd turn. During an exchange about endemic corruption in a particular African electoral system, three members of t... More »