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Standing Panel News Aug 31, 2020

Public Purchasing in an Intergovernmental System: U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance

In this new case study by Academy Fellows Stephen A. Hamill, John Bartle, Rich Callahan, and Mark Pisano, the U.S. Communities Goverment Purchasing Alliance is assessed as a model for procurement.

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Grand Challenge News Aug 31, 2020

Virtual Roundtable on Building Resilient Communities

Across the nation, America needs resilient communities with the capacity to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations. Extreme weather conditions and natural disasters, economic dislocations, unaffordabl…

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General News Aug 27, 2020

Meet our Fellows: James E. Baker ('19)

The Hon. James E. Baker is a professor at the College of Law with a courtesy appointment in the Maxwell School. Also serving as Director of the Institute for Security Policy and Law, Judge Baker teaches classes on nation…

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General News Aug 7, 2020

Meet our Fellows: Dr. Gregg Van Ryzin ('19)

Dr. Gregg G. Van Ryzin is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University–Newark . His research employs surveys and experiments to study a range of topics, including citizen satisfact…

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Grand Challenge News Jul 26, 2020

Roundtable on Developing Public Governance and Engagement

Effective problem solving usually requires federal, state, and local governments to work successfully together, and often with the private and nonprofit sectors. Fragmented and fractious inter-governmental arrangements—c…

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Standing Panel News Jul 1, 2020

Social Equity Resources

Tyrone P. Dooley (2019) Searching for social equity among public administration mission statements, Teaching Public Administration, 1-13 DOI: 10.1177/0144739419867121 The main research question considered in this article…

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Grand Challenge News Jun 29, 2020

Roundtable on Social Equity

Social equity—a key pillar of public administration alongside economy, efficiency, and effectiveness—addresses fairness, justice, and equity within a variety of public contexts. Although the United States has made signif…

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Grand Challenge News Jun 22, 2020

The Agile Journey at the World Bank

By G. Edward DeSeve, Visitng Fellow IBM Center for the Business of Government and Academy Fellow Introduction The case study summarized below is the latest in a series of cases available at the NAPA Agile Government…

https://napawash.org/news/the-8220-agile-journey-8221-at-the-world-bank

Grand Challenge News May 26, 2020

Roundtable on Modernizing and Reinvigorating the Public Service

As federal, state, and local governments are increasingly called upon to address complex and interconnected “wicked problems,” their need for leaders, managers, technical experts, and front-line workers in the right jobs…

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Grand Challenge News May 14, 2020

The Agile Government Center's First Case: Data Act Implementation: The First Government-wide Agile Project

By Academy Fellow G. Edward DeSeve Introduction In November 2019, the National Academy created the Agile Government Center (AGC) with three goals: Determine Agile Government Principles Identify cases of Agile G…

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Grand Challenge News Apr 28, 2020

The Need for Preparedness at All Levels: Initial Observations of the Pandemic Response

By Don Bathurst, a NAPA Fellow who served in many emergency management roles in the federal government, including as the Deputy US Fire Administrator, Chief Administrative Officer at DHS, and the Executive Director for E…

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Standing Panel News Apr 28, 2020

The Need for Preparedness at All Levels: Initial Observations of the Pandemic Response

The Need for Preparedness at all Levels: Initial Observations of the Pandemic Response By Academy Fellow Don Bathurst NAPA Fellows Shelley Metzenbaum, Kay Goss, Katherine Willoughby, and Louis Uccellini contributed to …

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