PODCAST: Executive Power and Civil Service Reform with Adam White and Clark Kelso Season 2 · Ep 38
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Jun 29, 2018
Introduction Two government budget initiatives that have been implemented in countries around the world since the 1980s are participatory budgeting...
Jun 18, 2018
On July 13, an organizational meeting to begin to chart out the path for the Social Equity Panel over the...
Jun 15, 2018
The Africa Working Group of NAPA's International Standing Panel will host the Public Management Track participants of the 2018 Mandela...
May 30, 2018
In June of 1968 the Policy Committee of the Republican Governors Association accepted a staff report titled “Handbook of Suggested...
May 29, 2018
Funding the nation's surface transportation system has been on the Government Accountability Office’s biannual high risk list since 2007. The...
May 23, 2018
The Standing Panel on International Affairs recently met on May 21, 2018 to discuss public administration in environments external to...
To learn more about the Academy's Standing Panels and how to get involved, contact Kaitlyn Hudgins, Director of Fellow Engagement...
May 21, 2018
Academy Fellows Gov. Parris Glendening, Dr. John Kincaid & Dr. Carl Stenberg testifed last week before the bipartisan Speaker's Task...
The annual conference sponsored by NAPA’s Standing Panel on Social Equity will be hosted this year by the Marxe School...
May 11, 2018
Kicking off Public Service Recognition Week - Govmatters.tv Terry Gerton, president & CEO of NAPA and Bill Valdez, president of...
May 04, 2018
The future and with it, Artificial Intelligence, is almost here. You can follow some of the recent research done by...
At the core of the recent National Academy of Public Administration report titled Strengthening Organizational Health and Performance in Government...
Apr 10, 2018
Introduction Grants are among the most important tools the federal government uses to advance its vast array of objectives in...
Introduction This article demonstrates the federal policy priorities of the National Governors Association, National Conference of State Legislatures, National League...
Jos Raadschelders has been teaching and writing about public administration for 35 years, lately at the John Glenn College of...
Mar 30, 2018
NAPA Fellow and IGS Panel member, Shelley Metzenbaum authored "From Oversight to Insight: Federal Agencies as Learning Leaders in the...
The Public Service Recognition Week (#PSRW) Charity Walk/Run will be on May 6 at National Harbor, MD and for virtual...
Mar 21, 2018
I think I’ve heard just about every government joke there is. Most are mean-spirited and just plain wrong. But here’s...
Mar 15, 2018
By Dr. Alan R. Shark, Chair, NAPA Standing Panel on Technology Leadership There can be no doubt Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Mar 14, 2018
What happens when you tie your Employee Engagement effort to shared mission and goals? Lots. In 2014, the Department of...
Mar 08, 2018
Introduction The movement to shared services should continue to be a priority for the new leaders of our government. Shared...
Introduction During my 12 years of service as a Senate-confirmed political appointee in the Department of Defense (DoD), I regularly...
Indtroduction In our recent Commentary, Implementing Performance Management in Government, we discussed that effective political appointees need to develop ways...
Introduction A recent Commentary in this series, Implementing Performance Management in Government, recommended that political appointees develop ways to track...
Introduction Based on our interviews with 42 Obama Administration appointees over the past four years, we developed many insights into...
Introduction There is little new under the sun. We can find close presidential races from the time of Thomas Jefferson...
Introduction The looming epidemic in chronic diseases, accelerated by aging populations and increasing prosperity, is threatening to overwhelm healthcare budgets...
Mar 02, 2018
On February 13th, 2018, the National Academy of Public Administration awarded the Elliot L. Richardson Prize for Excellence in Public...
Feb 27, 2018
The NAPA White Paper, Strengthening Organisational Health and Performance in Government, draws on international as well as US experience and...
Feb 26, 2018
In the United States, most domestic policies and programs are implemented through the intergovernmental system, integrating federal, state, and local...
Feb 22, 2018
Merely measuring employee engagement isn’t enough, concludes a NAPA white paper on Strengthening Organizational Health and Performance in Government. While...
Feb 20, 2018
Reforms that promise better government performance are like a mirage – always just over the horizon, and rarely living up...
The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) has released a paper offering a new data-driven management improvement approach that could...
Feb 15, 2018
The Evidence-based Policymaking Commission strongly recommends that agencies use learning agendas for evaluation plans to build the base of evidence...
Feb 13, 2018
A recent National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) report Improving Organizational Health and Performance in Government by a special panel...
Feb 12, 2018
Companies need engaged employees. They are motivated to innovate, increase productivity, and satisfy customers. The sad truth, however, is that...
Our #NoTimeToWait report was cited in the President's budget proposal today, and called a "clarion call to civil service reform."...
Feb 08, 2018
This blog post first appeared in Government Executive Behind the roller-coaster politics rocking Washington, a much quieter but just as...
Feb 06, 2018
Special Webinar: Technology Forecast 2018: What State and Local Government Technology Officials Can Expect Watch the Recording Here: https://amrms.adobeconnect.com/p7pbmapwgtp4/ This...
Feb 05, 2018
Feb 02, 2018
Summary The National Academy of Public Administration is honored to be among the organizations served on the Advisory Council to...
Feb 01, 2018
Embarking on any long journey, it helps to have a clear idea of where you expect, or at least hope...
Background To assure equity in emergency response, it is important to focus on the intersection of natural hazard and the...
Jan 31, 2018
This blog post first appeared in Government Executive Have government reformers been putting the chicken before the egg? For years...
Jan 29, 2018
Introduction Labor force participation in our country has fallen to 63 percent. Millions of working-age Americans, particularly males between the...
Jan 11, 2018
Summary The number, diversity, and magnitude of disasters in the U.S., both natural and human-made, are increasing. For natural disasters...
Summary The new President and Congress need to forge a new partnership with state and local governments in order to...
Summary There is political consensus around the need to renew and rebuild America’s infrastructure, and President Trump has identified this...
Dec 06, 2017
The 2018 Fall Meeting will be held November 1-2 at the Doubletree Hotel in Crystal City, Virginia. More details coming soon.
Nov 28, 2017
Academy President and CEO Teresa Gerton, moderated a panel earlier this month with Thomas Davis, Anthony Foxx , Stephanie Miner...
