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Public Affairs and Administration Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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On the Importance of Strengthening Moderate Beliefs in Climate Science to Foster Support for Immediate Action
(MDPI, 2013-12-03)Whereas many studies focus on climate skeptics to explain the lack of support for immediate action on climate change, this research examines the effect of moderate believers in climate science. Using data from a representative ... -
Changing the Role of Research Libraries in Scholarly Communication
(Michigan Publishing, 2000-03-01)As the decade of the 1990s drew to a close, the basic issues related to the economics of scholarly publishing became familiar to most academic librarians, particularly those involved in collection development. A constantly ... -
School Finance Reform: Do Equalized Expenditures Imply Equalized Teacher Salaries?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2011-10-01)Kentucky is a poor, relatively rural state that contrasts greatly with the relatively urban and wealthy states typically the subject of education studies employing large-scale administrative data. For this reason, Kentucky's ... -
Public Personnel Update
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Applying the logic of sample surveys to qualitative case studies: The case cluster method
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Out of the Rubble and Towards a Sustainable Future: The “Greening” of Greensburg, Kansas
(MDPI AG, 2010-07-20)Following a devastating tornado there in 2007, the tiny city of Greensburg, Kansas has engaged in a sustainability-oriented recovery process through which it hopes to serve as a model for other communities planning for a ... -
Sustainability, Ethics, and Aesthetics
(Common Ground Publishing, 2013)Among four dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic, social, and cultural), it is the latter aspect that is least examined by scholars. However, understanding how culture contributes to the long term sustainability ... -
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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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, ... -
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 ...