Public Affairs and Administration, School of: Recent submissions
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Citizen engagement psychological contract
(2013-02-06)Contains expectations and promises of citizens and city in an engagement effort -
Budgeting in the New Normal Environment
(2013-02-04)slides of presentation on relationship between budgeting, performance management, and citizen engagement -
Citizen Engagement in the New Normal Fiscal Environment: Time for Participatory Performance Budgeting (PPB 2.0)?
(2013-02-04)Reports on relationship between budgeting and performance management, including focus on citizen engagement -
High Performance Governing Body slides
(2013-02-01)Identifies political values, working conditions of council, and different perspectives of local government elected officials and staff. -
Contemporary Trends power point
(2013-02-01)Power point slides guiding presentation on closing the gap between political acceptability and administrative sustainability as a prerequisite for effective governance. Leadership challenges are described -
Public Management as Citizen Compliance: A Case Study of Income Tax Compliance Behavior in Thailand
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This dissertation proposes that in democratic government understanding citizens is a key to effective public management and understanding taxpayers is a key to successful tax administration. Tax compliance has long been a ... -
Planting Food or Fuel: Developing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Role of Culture in Farmers’ Decisions to Grow Second-Generation Biofuel Feedstock Crops
(Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, 2009-12)Recent interest in biofuels as an alternative energy source has spurred considerable changes in agricultural practice worldwide. These changes will be more pronounced as second-generation biofuels, such as switch grass, ... -
Recommendations for Sustaining Sustainability Initiatives in City Government
(2012-08-15)The report analyzes four U.S. cities' financial conditions and then compares and contrasts their sustainability initiatives and financing mechanisms. Based on the analysis, the report provides recommendations for other ... -
Citizen Engagement: Analysis of Johnson County Budget Simulator
(2012-08-15)The report discusses the importance of citizen engagement in local budgeting and uses the budget simulator exercise of Johnson County as a case study to evaluate the benefits and challenges of the tool. The report concludes ... -
Characteristics of Politics and Administration
(2011)This chart distinguishes the logic of politics from the logic of administration and shows the need for "translators." -
Leadership Challenges in a Midwestern City
(2011-10-15)This article identifies leadership challenges that local governments are facing. It includes specific instances of the challenges and how they have been addressed. -
Defining Facilitative Leadership: A View from Inside the Mayor’s Office in Lawrence, KS,
(2011-10-22)This article combines practice and theory in describing the experiences of a mayor who also was a public administration faculty member. -
KU MPA Competency and Portfolio Guide
(2011-08-29)In the MPA program at the University of Kansas we have focused attention on outcomes in two ways that are unique. First, we intend the portfolio and our competencies matrix to primarily serve students as a self-assessment ... -
Cross Sector Collaboration and Politics
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Collective Bargaining in Municipal Government: How Unionization Impacts Employee's Attitudes, Behaviors, and Values
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-18)The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the impact of public sector labor unions on member attitudes, beliefs, and values. I expect that as union members commit to the values of labor organizations they will perceive ... -
Cybersecurity Management in the States: The Emerging Role of Chief Information Security Officers
(IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2010)The importance of safeguarding information created and shared on computers and the Internet has increased significantly in recent years, as society has become increasingly dependent on information technology in government, ... -
BEYOND BUDGET RATIONALITIES: THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF PERFORMANCE BUDGETING AND ITS INDIRECT EFFECTS ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITHIN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS
(University of Kansas, 2010-01-14)Performance based budgeting reform in its latest stage continues to evolve after resurgence in popularity resulting from the Clinton Administration's National Performance Review and the international new public management ...