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This section contains original works (academic papers, conference presentations, analytic studies, etc.) from which articles have been excerpted. These works are typically too lengthy to publish in their entirety in hard copy, but The Public Manager Web site allows readers to view the full work—including footnotes, references, and bibliography—for a more complete appreciation of content details, method, and source material.
Six Trends Transforming Government
By Mark Abramson, Jonathan Breul, and John Kamensky
How the interrelated effects of demographics, technology, and new modes of public service delivery are changing the way government is being managed.
In the late 1990s, no one suspected that government management would dramatically change the way it has today—in emergency response; in the use of “311” service calling, Blackberries, and other personal electronic tools; and in operations, such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) transformation from a paper-bound agency to one of the most efficient in electronic services. Public managers must constantly look for ways to adopt, adapt, or innovate new ways to deliver services.
Gary L. Larsen
The City of Portland and the USDA Forest Service are working together, along with citizens, to formulate comprehensive new policy to guide joint management of the Bull Run watershed on the Mt. Hood National Forest. This effort follows four decades of conflict resulting from differences between the federal view of multiple use contrasted with a local view of exclusive use for producing high quality water. The new policy is being formulated by the City and the Forest Service through negotiation of a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding that structures the parties’ roles, responsibilities, business processes, and working relationships. A systems approach using the vector of change model is used to describe and analyze the policy formulation process.
67th Annual ASPA Conference
The paper that follows is based on the author’s plenary lecture at the 67th Annual ASPA National Conference held in Denver, Colorado, March 31-April 2, 2006. It contains comprehensive text not published in the article in the printed version of The Public Manager.
Don’t Feed the Crocodiles: Public Administration’s Role in Restoring Democracy
Irene Rubin
This paper describes the eroding components of democratic governance, and then urges public administrators to take some steps to repair the damage. Academics can help, but how career officials respond to this crumbling infrastructure is key because the process by which they carry out their daily tasks gives substance to or denies democracy. Democratic governance comes not just from the top down, but also from the bottom up.
Citizen Auditors—Web-Enabled, Open-Source Government
Eric Kavanagh
In this article, Eric Kavanagh takes an interesting look at disaster preparedness and examines how models that oversee the financial holdings and reporting accuracy of America’s corporations can be used to effect transparency in government—right down to where federal relief funds go for Hurricane Katrina victims. Eric Kavanagh is the Web editor for TDWI, an organization that provides education, training, certification, and market research for executives and IT professionals worldwide. Founded in 1995, TDWI is the premier educational institute for business intelligence and data warehousing, visit www.tdwi.org.
Business Continuity/Emergency Planning Webcast
Tony Gill, an author appearing in our Fall 2005 issue, will conduct a webcast dealing with business continuity planning. The specifics of this particular session will examine the economic impact of pandemic that can be mitigated by integrating Telework into business continuity planning. Discussions will include strategies for addressing absenteeism and maintaining corporate operations in such an environment. The webcast may be viewed at
http://events.streamlogics.com/gill/dec15-05/index.asp
As a service to those parties interested in the topic of business continuity planning and telework, we offer access to his latest The Public Manager article.
Continuity Planning in a Post-Katrina World
Tony Gill
The time has come for the federal government to integrate standard principles of business continuity, emergency management, and risk management into a common template and include telework as a key component of workplace continuity strategy. This article examines how the times ahead will inevitably force private-sector participants to assess the strategic value of telework in maintaining critical operations, and public-sector organizations will be expected to provide leadership.
66th Annual ASPA National Conference
The three papers that follow are based on presentations given at the 66th Annual ASPA National Conference held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 2–5, 2005. They include comprehensive text not published as part excerpted versions featured in the printed edition of The Public Manager.
Corruption and the Development of Organizational Ethic Since the 1996 Constitution
I.W. Ferreira and M.S. Bayat
In their paper, Corruption and the Development of Organizational Ethic Since the 1996 Constitution, I. W. Ferreira and M. S. Bayat discuss how measures since the 1996 Constitution—such as the drafting of codes of conduct, whistle-blowing, and training initiatives—are making public officials more aware of the need for ethical conduct in their public dealings.
Impact of Accountability and Ethics on Public Service Delivery: A South African Perspective
Kishore Raga and Derek Taylor
Kishore Raga and Derek Taylor discuss in their paper, Impact of Accountability and Ethics on Public Service Delivery: A South African Perspective, how South Africa’s Constitution of 1996, by requiring all government departments to observe particular codes of conduct, is attempting to improve accountability and ethics in public service delivery—specifically at the local level.
Peter A. Mameli
In his paper, Protection Management: An Integrated Approach to Homeland Security Educating Homeland Security Specialists, Peter A. Mameli talks about an innovative approach to weaving an interlocking knowledge base among security, fire, and emergency management professionals, who often labor under conflicting organizational cultures and world views.
