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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Culture of Bureacracy: Managing Change in the Federal GovernmentPart II

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T. E. Winchell

Part I of this series contrasted differences in private and public sector management and established some baseline assumptions regarding internal federal administrative operations. Part II provides the sequence... More »