PODCAST: Executive Power and Civil Service Reform with Adam White and Clark Kelso Season 2 · Ep 38
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This blog post first appeared in Government Executive Have government reformers been putting the chicken before the egg? For years, their attention has been on improving performance by focusing on program results. But a…
https://napawash.org/news/next-steps-in-improving-government-performance
Introduction Labor force participation in our country has fallen to 63 percent. Millions of working-age Americans, particularly males between the ages of 25 and 54, are neither working nor seeking work. The laws, regula…
https://napawash.org/news/mending-our-safety-net-building-our-workforce
Background In 2011, John Kincaid and Carl Stenberg co-authored a concluding article on “'Big Questions’ about Intergovernmental Relations and Management: Who Will Address Them?” (2011) for a symposium in the Public Admi…
https://napawash.org/news/big-questions-about-igr-and-igm-revisited
Introduction Floods are the costliest natural hazard events in the United States in terms of lives and property losses. The financial costs of flood disasters are unsustainable, especially for the national government, w…
https://napawash.org/news/u-s-floods-the-necessity-of-mitigation
Summary from June 23, 2017 EOM Panel Meeting: Background Federal loan and loan guarantee programs have grown to immense proportions, amounting to $ 3.6 trillion in FY2016. That’s well over $10,000 for every man, woman,…
https://napawash.org/news/the-importance-of-evaluating-program-outcomes-the-case-of-federal-credit-pr
The Executive branch was given three years to implement its key provisions. A key deadline was to post all federal spending data on a single website by May 9, 2017. The DATA Act requires all federal spending data, inclu…
https://napawash.org/news/implementing-the-data-act-working-across-boundaries
Summary of April 26, 2017 EOM Panel Meeting Introduction Media reports on the various reform announcements focused on potential staffing and budget reductions, but OMB staff noted upfront that their observation from the …
https://napawash.org/news/president-trumps-government-reform-initiatives
On April 12, 2017 I attended an interesting breakfast discussion on infrastructure policy with the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Executive Editor Gerald F. Seib, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Bill Clinton’s first Chief …
https://napawash.org/news/everybody-wants-an-infrastructure-upgrade-how-can-it-happen
Introduction We are entering a season when many groups are thinking about how to advise the next Administration on matters of policy, organization, or both. NAPA is now working on this, specifically addressing the chall…
https://napawash.org/news/can-we-finally-link-foresight-to-policy
Introduction Governing the United States of America does not pause during presidential transitions. Pressing matters – such as the financial crisis, two wars and threats of terrorism during the Bush-Obama transition in …
https://napawash.org/news/the-federal-appointments-process-the-problem-and-our-proposed-solutions
How can strategic foresight be effectively linked to decision making in the federal executive branch? Strategic foresight can inform national policy in the face of profound uncertainty about what lies ahead. It recogniz…
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Introduction Dysfunctional…burdensome…ineffective…onerous…duplicative. These are all words that have been used to describe the massive amount of paperwork required of a political appointee. And, if you have been nominat…
https://napawash.org/news/drowning-in-paperwork-may-soon-be-a-thing-of-the-past
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