Public Affairs and Administration, School of: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Striking a Balance: The Role of Value Congruence in Shaping Employee Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-22)The past two decades have seen a rapid growth in scholarship on public service motivation. So far, findings indicate the concept bears considerable theoretical and empirical warrant. That said, several surprising inconsistencies ... -
Pioneering the Future--A New Generation of Local Government Professionals
(Public Management magazine published by ICMA – International City/County Management Association, 2005-05)The Local Government Management Fellows (LGMF) Program was begun in response to demographic trends predicting significant retirements of experienced local government executives. This will occur at the same time as political, ... -
City and County Management as Community Building
(Public Management magazine published by ICMA – International City/County Management Association, 1999-05)The phrase “community building” captures those initiatives in local governments today that seek to connect the places where people live with the lives they lead. The goal of community building is to create attachment to ... -
Meeting Today's Challenges: Competencies for the Contemporary Local Government Professional
(Public Management magazine published by ICMA – International City/County Management Association, 2003-05)In a previous article, we outlined two contemporary trends – community building and modernizing of the organization – that affect the work of local government professionals. In that article, we also identified some approaches ... -
The Manager as Political Leader: A Challenge to Professionalism?
(Public Management magazine published by ICMA – International City/County Management Association, 2001-03)It has been acknowledges for a long time that city and county managers play a prominent role in policy making. It can be no other way. Managers set the council’s agenda, for example, by calling the governing body’s attention ... -
How Professionals Can Add Value to Their Communities and Organizations
(Public Management magazine, published by ICMA – International City/County Management Association, Washington, D.C., 2007-03)Every so often, members of a profession look inward, asking themselves such questions as these: • What are the enduring qualities that anchor our profession? • How are we changing and what is driving the change? • How do ... -
Contemporary Challenges in Local Government
(Public Management magazine published by ICMA – International City/County Management Association, 2002-12)The Bertelsmann Foundation, the largest in Germany, sponsors the Carl Bertelsmann Prize for innovative solutions to public problems. In 1993, the award was given for exemplary practice of “democracy and efficiency in local ...