Podger, Australian Reforms and Challenges

Current public and non-profit sector efforts to improve social conditions both in the U.S. and globally leave much room for better achieving systemic and sustainable success. One panacea that has been actively promoted by some is to simply replicate “evidence-based interventions (EBI)” that have been “proven” to be successful in other locations. However, simply replicating EBIs is not likely to work for a variety of reasons, and adapting to context has been pursued as an art without much guidance or empowerment.

Taking an equity-focus in adapting promising interventions has certainly not received much attention. The challenges to implementing EBIs with an equity lens typically are numerous. We offer a practitioner and equity-focused framework and guidance for practitioners for adapting promising interventions for success through more intentional end-user engagement and collaboration.

We draw upon human-centered design principles, and organizational change theory and practice knowledge to provide steps for leaders and practitioners to draw upon when they seek out, and then adapt, implement and scale promising interventions.

Dong, Yang and Qiu, Environmental Information Disclosure and Pollutant Emissions Reduction in China: The Mediating Effect of Public Participation

Kwa and Kim, Identifying and Managing Critical Risk Factors for Successful Public-Private Partnership Projects in Singapore

Y. Li, Q. Li, Ouyang and Zhang, Research on the Risks of Transnational Oil and Gas Pipeline Projects along the "One Belt and One Road": Based on the QCA Method

Barzelay and Yan, Scaling Up Programs through Replication: Furnishing Professional Knowledge about a Public Administration Archetype

Drudy, The Case Study Teaching Method for Public Administration Education Opportunities for Faculty and Practitioner Collaboration

Gong, Value Alignment, Government Capacity and SOE Participation in Infrastructure

The creative process is a way for individuals to come up with innovative ideas and solutions for problems. There are some people who feel as though the public sector is not savvy enough to find pioneering ways to solve problems or even think outside the box. Digging into the five steps of the creative process and applying its elements to the public sector will hopefully bring a fresh look into the way administrators manage and potentially alter their behavior to embrace change.

The presentation focuses on some of the underlying factors affecting an employee and their performance. What is apparent throughout the industry is a fundamental lack of drive due to being unengaged for a myriad of reasons. With COVID and the stress associated with telecommuting, childcare, loss of income or housing, any singular stressor could inhibit an employee from performing their necessary job functions.

In reading some of the relevant theories behind employee dissatisfaction, basic needs must be met in order to be effective.Throughout the presentation, the discussion revolves around Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to Frederick Taylor and his scientific management theory.

Although there is a need to maintain productivity and efficiencies with staff, the teachings of Taylor are unfortunately unrealistic today. Administrators should focus more on the employee and their needs in order to maintain engagement. The challenges with retaining staff continue to be problematic with budgetary challenges, however, with a little creativity and ensuring workers are satisfied with their job responsivities, employees will feel appreciated.

Chilton and King, Challenges to Terry Cooper's Citizenship Ethics: Hybrid Organizations, Voting Rights and Namudno v. Holder

McCannon, Do Elections Encourage Public Actors to be More Responsive?

Trueheart, Scientism in the Technocratic Public Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Manson, Who Becomes a Steward of Democracy?

Zhang and Zheng, Online or Offline: Citizen Preferences toward Public Services Delivery

Chandel, Sustainable Governance in India: A Study of Poverty Alleviation Initiatives in India

Shi, Factors Affecting the Risk Information Seeking Behavior in Disaster Resettlement: A Case Study of Qinling Mountains, China

Yan, How Do Communities Build their Capacity in the Covid-19 Pandemic? A Multiple Case Study between Beijing and Hong Kong

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Ali, Accountability Mechanisms for the Micro-Finance Institutions in the Developing Countries

Aryal and Han, Local Governments' Accountability and Public Trust in Nepal

Underhill, What We Can Learn from Other Advanced Countries in Promoting Social Justice?

Chow and Xu, Digital Utopia or Digital Reality: How to Get Digital Government Work in the Coronavirus Pandemic Context?

Manoharan and Shick, E-Government Implementation in the Largest City in Each State in the United States: An Evaluation and Analysis

Myers, Surveillance, Information and Resilience: An Investigation of Increasing Public Participation in Public Health Preparedness

Van Laar, Knowledge Management Assessments and Determining Future Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Paswan, The Healthcare Challenges of Battling the Pandemic in Rural India

Silverman, Pandemic Narratives and Cultural Theory: Who is Wearing a Mask and Who is Refusing?

Zhang, Visual Analysis of Urban Resilience Research from the Perspective of Public Administration

Baker and Samudra, Administrative Burden and Multilevel Governance

Liu, Identifying the Barriers in the Implementation of Urban Attraction Policy for Talent

Reed, Independent Demonstration Projects

Fuller Veloz, Performing Arts Centers in the United States: Background, Governance and Performance Studies

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Arty, Chanenson, Kempf and Sharma, An Independence Index: A Tool to Evaluate and Improve Inspectors General

Cheng, Shen and Yu, Beyond Resilience: How Do Digital Governance Platforms Transform Public Service Provision Post the COVID-19 Crisis?

Dong and Ju, Research on the Influence Path of Government-Affairs Openness to Grassroots Public Service Quality

Cheng, Sheng and Yu, Beyond Resilience: How Do Digital Governance Platforms Transform Public Service Provision post the COVID19 Crisis?

Ryu and Nyaku, Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Contextual Conditions and Means Nexus

Trairatananusorn, Best Practice Pandemic Responses at What Cost? Lessons Learned from Thailand’s COVID-19 Pandemic Responses

Khalid, The Role of Effective Communication and Public Engagement During COVID-19 Pandemic in Pakistan

9:00am - 9:55am EST: Symposium Opening Remarks and Keynote Session

10:00am - 10:55am EST: Panel I: Public Leadership and Governance in Turbulent Times

11:00am - 11:55am EST: Panel II: Approaches to Fighting COVID-19

12:00pm - 12:55pm EST: Panel III: Pandemic Response and Health Care Systems

1:00pm - 1:55pm EST: Panel IV: Public Infrastructure, Capacity Building, and Free Trade

2:00pm - 3:10pm EST: Panel V: Public Finance and Resource Management

Harris, Donor, Contractor and Beneficiary Experiences in the Implementation of Participatory Development through Foreign Aid

Boyer, How Can Citizen Concerns be Addressed in Public-Private Partnerships? Comparing Bureaucratic and Citizen Perspectives

Ganapati and Manandhar, Public Managers’ Challenges in Network Governance: Managing Multi-Sector Stakeholders in Post-Disaster Recovery in Nepal

Seth and Vasavada, Public-Private Partnership for Development of Railways for Coal Transportation in India

Cho, Does Legal Reform that Introduces Merit Requirements for Public Servants into a Constitution Curb Corruption in Developing Countries? Empirical Evidence from a Difference-in-Difference Study?

Butz, Kennedy and Molina, Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Behavior: Examining Employee Turnover in a Public Service Organization

Chang, Hur and Lee, Too Much of a Good Thing? Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Job Security and Performance among U.S. Federal Employees

Rodriguez, Twenty-First Century Challenges: Leaderships Role in Guiding Public Agencies through Accelerating Disruptive Change

Majumdar, A Policy Response to Infrastructure Damages from Fracking

Bell and Mallinson, Constraints on Policy Learning: Designing RGGI in Pennsylvania

Nelson, End of the (Pipe)Line? Understanding How States Manage the Risks of Oil and Gas Wells

Fisk, Morris, Nelson and Williamson, Green Stimulus or Industry Bailout: Assessing the Implementation of State Well-Plugging Programs

Adams, Krawczyk and Mahafza, Head for the Spills: An Environmental Justice Inquiry in Colorado’s Oil and Gas Industry

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Godwin, Collaboration in Public Budgeting

Kapucu and Tyler, Collaborative Emergency Management: Effectiveness of Emergency Management Networks

Carr, Li, Sanchez and Siciliano, Local Governments and Shared Services: Insights on Institutional Mechanisms, Partners and Purpose

Thurmaier and Walter, Risk Aversion and Risk-Taking Influences in Interlocal Collaboration

The session is sponsored by ASPA’s Center for Accountability and Performance.

The credibility of evaluators and auditors rests on their ability to carry out their responsibilities independently, that is, without the influence of sponsors and stakeholders. This independence is critical for those evaluators and auditors who work in the public sector – especially those tasked with oversight and watchdog responsibilities. To produce useful evaluations and audits, evaluators and auditors working in the public sector must also be responsive to the same sponsors and stakeholders. For them, maintaining their independence from and being responsive to the sponsors and stakeholders is nothing short of walking a tightrope.

Rakesh Mohan, Director, Office of Performance Evaluations, Idaho Legislature

Rakesh discusses the importance of managing the tension between auditor/evaluator independence and responsiveness in today’s climate of intense political polarization and an increasing lack of trust in government.

Mark Funkhouser, President, Funkhouser & Associates and former Mayor of Kansas City, MO

Mark places auditing and evaluation in the context of democratic governance and representative government. He talks about independence vs. isolation, who gets to decide what is audited or evaluated and how the work is to be done. He discusses the issue of defining the profession and how auditors and evaluators must resist those outside their profession who try to define it for them in ways that violate the independence of the auditor and thus devalues his or her work.

Mary Hull Caballero, City Auditor, Portland, OR

Mary says independence from those you audit and investigate is the bedrock of credible accountability offices. But to persuade elected officials and managers to implement your recommendations, they must be relevant to the political context. She covers the auditing profession’s historical blind spot about looking for inequitable outcomes, sticking instead to its comfort zone of assessing efficiency and effectiveness of programs and operations.

Lana Rucks, Principal Consultant, The Rucks Group, Columbus, OH

Lana discusses the issues of independence and responsiveness from the perspective of a for-profit organization working with public entities. She frames this discussion by considering the definition of “independence” and how that can be optimized.

Kennedy, Federalism and Gun Policy: The Consequences of Inaction
Hu, Risk Aversion as a Source of Policy Failure: Tolerance and Learning under Deep Uncertainty

Lu and Xu, The Interaction Between Immigration Policies and Higher Education: STEM-ized Business, Management and Social Science Programs in the U.S.

Bastante and Carroll, Applying Broken Windows Theory to the NYPD: Does Police Harassment Translate into Greater Use of Force?

Ali and Wright, Citizen Oversight as a Strategy to Mitigate Motivated Reasoning: The Implementation of Body-Worn Cameras by Police Agencies

Beaver and Holmes, Defunding the Police without Disbanding the Police: A Theoretical Louisiana Model

Abner and Merritt, Police Accreditation: What Difference Does It Make for Issues that Matter?

Okubo, Community Engagement to Build Resilience in Denver, Colorado

Ferrini, El Paso Engagement Strategies to Combat COVID-19

Welch, Improving Racial Equity in Cities

Zoli, Designing Inclusive Diversity Priorities for a Public Service Academic Center for Excellence

Lee, Supervisory Support on the Relationship between Telework Situations and Employee Outcomes

Hoffman, Toward Socially Equitable Conditions: Leading Change in Washington State Cannabis Regulation Reform

Nguyen, Why Do Public Organizations Adopt Diversity Management Practices?

Pink-Harper, The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Local Economies

Ndongo, The Impact of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) on Public Procurement Programs for Minority-Owned Businesses in the United States

Landor and Pruitt, An Examination of the Relationship between School Attendance and Youth Involvement in the Criminal Justice System

Rodriguez and Wen, Differential Imprisonment Rates Under Republican- and Democrat-Controlled State Legislatures
Wang, Ethnicity, Employment Bias and Chinese Ethnic Policies: A Field Experiment

Merritt, Measuring Inequity: Assessing the Feasibility of a Standardized Government Racial Equity Survey

Barthelemy and Burke, Some More Nervous than Others: Race and Equity Conversations, Planning and Action within Massachusetts State Government

Emas, Facing Food Insecurity on Rutgers-Newark Campus

Fletcher, The Lived Experience of Food Insecurity Among College Students at a Midwestern University System

Hoflund, Factors Affecting the Sustainability of Short-Term Collaborative Networks: A Case Study of Communities Putting Prevention to Work Nutrition Initiatives in Douglas County, Nebraska

Jones, How Different Disciplines Use Public Administration Lenses to Examine Food Systems

Benenson, Civic Mobility: Toward an Equitable Civic Infrastructure

Fan, Punctuations and Diversity: Exploring Dynamics of Attention Allocation in China’s E-government Agenda

Mitchell, Social Networking's Ability to Improve Adaptation to Public Sector Employment

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Hatcher, Journal of Public Affairs Education

McDonald, Public Administration

Hall, Public Administration Review

Sowa, Review of Public Personnel Administration

Diamond, Teaching Public Administration

Negron, Algorithmic Vulnerabilities: Identifying and Addressing the Social Vulnerability Index through a Federal Scope for the City of Newark

Rollins, Economic Development and the Value of Collaborative Government

Chavez and Gil, Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas: Analyzing the Participation and Retention Gaps within the Region

Dawson and Gonzalez, Improving Shelter Clients Compliance to Meet Brightpoint Health’s Mission

Chin and Han, The Impact of COVID-19 on New Jersey’s Non-Essential Businesses: A Policy Analysis

Battaglio, Noor and Siddiqui, When the Going Gets Tough: How Global Countries’ Handling of the Pandemic Affects their Citizens’ Trust in the Government

Telch, Understanding why we should care again about the study of National Development Planning in public administration

Chelbi, Government and Social Responsibility Implementation: The Case of a Developing Nation- Tunisia

Anguelov, Legislating Sustainability? On the Evolution of “Circular” Fashion Mandates Under the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been disproportionately borne by ALICE—Asset Limited, Income Constrained, and Employed—households (in 2018, 42 percent of U.S. households were unable to make ends meet). Many ALICE workers are essential, yet despite being critical to keeping the economy running, risk their health for low wages and often no benefits, many ALICE workers have had their hours and wages cut or lost their jobs altogether. These families are likely to fall farther behind in a post-pandemic “normal” without additional policy intervention. This panel will highlight the current challenges ALICE families are facing and share how better data can drive the Biden-Harris policy agenda for an equitable recovery.

Henley, Financial Sustainability of Florida Cities: A cross-sectional analysis of the financial ability to serve future generations

Kang and K. Lee, Understanding the Relationship Between the Collaboration and Income Inequality in Land Development

Lynch, The Significance of Modern Money Theory to Federal Public Budgeting

Sun and Yang, Does Managerial Networking Explain Municipal Fiscal Health?

Manoharan and Yerramsetti, Bureaucratic Anonymity in the age of Communicative Governance: A Survey Experiment

Schwoerer, Designing Communication for Engagement: Cities’ Use of Social Media to Communicate Extreme Heat Plans

Lee, Neeley and Stewart, Government Public Relations: Persistent Challenges of Technology, Accountability and Transparency

Lee, PR as a Budgeteer's Duties: The Case of Harold D. Smith, FDR's Budget Director

Gupta and Mao, The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Media Engagement: The Arts and Culture Nonprofits Perspective

Atar, An Environmental Analysis of Dynamics and Circumstances of Role of I/NGOs in Refugee Crisis: The case of I/NGOs in Turkey

Hasan, Factors affecting Public Health Sector Organizational Capacity in Refugee Crisis: The Case of Rohingya Influx in Bangladesh

Kabah, Best Practices of OECD NGOs and Their Applicability to National NGOs in Ghana: Opportunities and Challenges from Management Perspective

2020 was a challenging year for local governments and it became clear that business-as-usual will not work in our new normal. This past year also put into sharp relief the deep institutional inequities for communities of color and the government’s role in perpetuating those inequities. It is with that backdrop the King County International Airport reimagined what community engagement could look like.

KCIA, not to be confused with major commercial airport of SeaTac, is one of the nation’s busiest primary non-hub airports. The airport averages 200,000 takeoffs and landings each year and supports $3.5 billion in local business and over 16,000 jobs. The airport serves small commercial passenger airlines, cargo carriers, the Boeing Company operations, private aircraft owners, helicopters, corporate jets, military and other aircraft.

At the beginning of 2020, the airport was finalizing a Federal Aviation Administration required master plan that provides a blueprint for the next twenty years of operations and capital projects at the airport. Then the pandemic hit and it upended every aspect of life.

The pandemic made us to think outside the box on how to equitably work with community to inform and understand their needs. The airport is a big part of multiple communities and we want to be a good neighbor as we plan for the future of the airport. Given public health guidelines, there would be no business-as-usual public engagement meetings, so it provided us an opportunity to decide what we wanted true engagement to look like in the new digital environment.

Adopted in 2015, there are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) providing a blueprint for peace and prosperity for the people and the planet. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality and spur economic growth - all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. The original aspiration was to accomplish these goals by 2030, but in order to make that a reality, broad ownership of the SDGs must translate into a strong commitment by all stakeholders to implement the global goals. Our panelists will discuss how local governments in countries around the world have experienced putting these goals into action, programs that have been adopted, best practices that have been found and the likelihood that 2030 remains a realistic target year for completion.

Join your colleagues at Baruch, CUNY for a fun networking reception to end your Saturday at the conference!

Henley, Evaluating the Training and Education on Minority Care in Relation to COVID-19

Naylor, Increasing Equity and Life Outcomes for Black Infants
Henson, Policy and Performance: The Search for Improved Efficiencies for Chronic Disease Funding and Allocation

Adams, The Impact of COVID-19 on the Safety Net for Food Insecurity

Mishra, Potaraju and Raj, Technology a Key Aid to Communicate with Citizens during Coronavirus Pandemic

Vasavada, Individual citizen engagement, social capital and dealing with Covid-19 Pandemic

Gupta and Antony, Emerging Collaborative Social Networks as Crisis Mitigation Strategy - The case of the Indian Education Sector

Bezboruah, Public Health Policies and Organizational Response in India: A Narrative Policy Framework

Barnes and Grayer, Does Language Matter? Public Perceptions of Diversity Training in the Public Sector Workplace

Hasan and Islam, The Dynamics of Minority Representation in the Civil Services of South Asia

Alteri, When Rights Collide: Examining Conflicts between Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and Religious Discrimination Protections

Berry-James, Examining Social Equity in Food Systems: A North Carolina Case Study

Jackson Leftwich, Increasing Voter Turnout Using Civic Engagement

Nwakpuda, The Search for Housing, with Psychosocial and Emotional Needs

Fiedler, Nikolaenko and Yesilyurt, Institutionalization through Hacktivism in Belarus: An Administrative Model of Cooperation of a Country in Political Upheaval

Craft, The Future is Plural: Assessing Impacts of Smart Technology on Critical Infrastructure

Kern, Securing Elections: Ensuring Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability

Ganapati, Agile Government: Lessons from U.S. Federal Agencies
Dulaney, 2020 Elections Cybersecurity: How It Was Done Right

Rho, Government Communication Channels during COVID-19: Application of a Social Amplification of Risk Model

Witkowski, Lessons Learned on the Frontlines of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities for Firefighters and EMS Personnel

Choi and Lofton, Policy Influencers: Who Decided to Establish State Reopening Businesses Policies?

De Lancer Julnes, The Role of the Social Determinants of Health in Building Resilient Communities: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abdulla and Serikbayeva, State Capacity in Responding to COVID-19

Aoki, Stay-At-Home Request or Order? A Study of the Regulation of Individual Behavior During a Pandemic Crisis in Japan

Brown and Edwards, COVID-19 Homeless Services in Santa Clara County, California: Preventing Disease Spread through Housing Interventions

Farazmand, Iranian Government Responses to the Pandemic: An Analysis of Successes and Failures

Liu, Government Capacity, Contextual Complexity, and Variation in Policy Instrument Choice for Steering Nonprofits

Bezboruah and Suh, Stakeholder Relationship Management in the Nonprofit Sector: A Systematic Review of the Donor-Beneficiary Interests

Hwang and Sorensen, In the Wake of the Storm: Assessing Education Budgetary Responses to the Great Recession

Williams, Performance Measures: Friend or Foe for HBCUs: Preliminary Findings

Guo and Le, The Management of Education Grant Programs at the Local Level: A Case of Miami-Dade School District, Florida

Liu, The Relationship among the Digital Divide, Economy and Education Inequity

Su, Discretion in Traffic Stops: The Influence of Budget Cuts on Traffic Law Enforcement

Kim and Park, Predicting Organizational Survivability: Local Governments Default

Abdel-Samad and Ho, The Impact of Utility Assistance on Keeping People Housed

Larson and Park, Vertical Competition among Overlapping Jurisdictions: Panel Evidence from Local Property Tax Decisions in Florida

Sun and Zhang, Who Lobbies? The Budget Lobbying Structure in New York City

Yoo, Children of NYC in Domestic Violence and Their Living Environment After

Plasencia, Dismantling the Poverty to Prison Pipeline amongst NYC Youth

Herring, Lim, Reed and Young, Promoting Social Equity in Public School Districts: A Matched Multi-Level Analysis of a Holistic, Intersectional Model

Johnson, The Absence of Fathers in the Home and its Association with Minority High School Dropouts

Ramos, The Educational Success and Well-Being of Children with an Incarcerated Parent

Greenberg, AI, Technology and Social Determinants: Beyond COVID-19

Dumont, Municipal Covid-19 Technological Adoption: The Immediate Vaccine and the Long-Term Effects

Cook, Gasco-Hernandez, Gil-Garcia, Pardo, Yuan, Resiliency in Local Governments in a Post-COVID-19 Era: Lessons from the Northeast Region in the United States

Cropf, Esteves, The Virtual Municipal Legislature: Responding to COVID-19 with Technology to Continue the Business of Government While Increasing Digital Democracy

Leon-Moreta and Totaro, Local Government Roles in Housing Access and Affordability

Doumbia, Poor Law Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence in the United States

Rivera, Returning to Normalcy in the Short-Term: A Preliminary Investigation of the Recovery from Hurricane Harvey

Das, The State of Healthcare for People Aging in Prison

Terryl Ross has more than 30 years of experience related to equity and social justice. Specifically, he specializes in examining the intersectionality of race, changing demographics, emerging trends, higher education and new media. He believes the 21st century will be a time of scarcity and reduction, resulting in a struggle between those who want to bring people together and those who want to divide people. He believes people are ready to come together in a new way to build learning communities and proactively make social justice a reality in America.

Han and Zenebe, Barriers to Womens' Advancement to Managerial Positions: The Case of the Ethiopian Public Sector

Ogunlela, Corruption and Management of Higher Education in Nigeria: Examination of Gender Issues

Utkina, Is There an Optimal Age for Women to Build a Career? Gender Ageism in Russian Public Administration

Tan, Explaining the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships in China: A Pecking Order Perspective

R. Wang, Precision Governing Effectiveness of the Commons: The Evidence from Air Pollution Prevention and Control Policies in China

Z. Wang, Research on Promoting Smart Elderly Care in China: The Perspective of Evolutionary Game Theory

Qian, The Triple Role of Research Institutions in Innovation

Gu, Qi and Ran, Approaches to Balancing Power in Collaborative Governance: Evidence from A Collaboration-Based Governance Mechanism for Rural China

Ran and Wang, The Entangled Twins: A Systematic Review on Network Governance and Collaborative Governance

McGuigan and Morcol, The Network Structure of Public Administration Journals: An Investigation of the Public Administration Journal Network with Whole-Network Analyses of the Citations to and by its Prominent Journals

Ma and Yu, Bad Money Drives Out Good? Evidence from Government Regulations of Industrial Overcapacity in China

Zeerak and Zhao, The Use of Performance Measures in Transit Funding Allocation: Experiences across States

Robbins and Guo, Urban-Rural Inequality and Land Financing in China: A Multi-level Analysis

Wen, Transparency, Price Formation Mechanism and Risk Control of Local Government Special Bonds in China

Yang, China’s Local Budget Process and Debt Spiral in Tiao-Kuai authority

Fonesca, The Use of Performance Measures in Transit Funding Allocation: Experiences across States

Gu, Urban-Rural Inequality and Land Financing in China: A Multi-Level Analysis

Arsenijnevic and Ruijer, Access to Healthcare in The Netherlands

Arumugam, The State of Gender Equality in India and the Impact of Mid-Day Meal Scheme

Martin-Howard and Sentama, Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Opportunities

Nicholson, Racial Equity in Brazil

Overman, Turkish Origin Germans: Temporarily Permanent

Cohen, Mizrahi and Vigoda-Gadot, A Longitudinal Study of Citizens' Willingness to Pay for Emergency Readiness during the COVID-19 Crisis

Jang, Are State Government’s Administrative Costs Sticky?

Andonoska and Xu, Fiscal Policies, Financial Condition and Credit Rating: An Analysis of U.S. State Governments

Guo, Following the Money or Efficiency? The Government’s Motivation for PPP Utilization

Hao and Stalebrink, Political Party Control and Intergovernmental Transfers: A Longitudinal Study

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Branch, Suppressing the BIPOC Vote: Why Is there Cause for Concern?

Edwards, Working with Disenfranchised Voting Populations

Lee, What Voter Suppression Tactics Might We Confront in 2024?

Rubin, Achieving Gender Equity through Government Budgets

Waxman, Budgeting for Equity in Philadelphia

Fabian, Budgeting with an Equity Lens

Jordan, Inclusive Public Administration via Public Budgeting

Bauer, Ege and Wagner, How Do International Bureaucrats Affect Policy Outputs? Explaining IPA Influence Strategies in International Organizations

Moloney, International Administrative Law, International Organization Tribunals, and ‘Justice’ for International Civil Servants

Larrison and Yeo, Is Anyone Out There? International Organizations’ Response to Asylum Seekers at the United States/Mexico Border

Staronova and Verheijen, Structured Interactions between National and International Civil Servants: Influencing and Being Influenced

Clark, Equitable Deliberative Public Participation Design through a Lens of Multi-Dimensional Power
Millesen, Institutional Barriers to Civic Participation: A Case Study of a Neighborhood Association’s Fight for Standing

Schanne, Institutional Barriers to Civic Participation: A Case Study of a Neighborhood Association’s Fight for Standing

Su, Local Collaborative Governance: Models, Drives and Relationships

Johnson, Routine Nonroutine Performance Information: The Case of Public Feedback

Ghalib and Malki, As Assessment of the State and Non-State Social Protection Measures during the Pandemic in Rural Areas of Pakistan

Borgesi and Ganapati, Evaluating Volunteer Management in Local Emergency Management Plans: Case of Florida

Alanazi and Wooldridge, It's Deja Vu All Over Again! Strategies for Creating a More Humane Public Service

Henderson and Melitski, Retaining Front-Line Public Personnel in a Pandemic: Examining the Effects of Preparation and Capacity

Secretary Leon Panetta and Tim Clark will engage in a discussion about the Secretary's career, current challenges in public service what the future holds for our profession and the people we serve.

McDonald, Minkowitz and Jin, For the Public Good? A Study of Workplace Bullying and Public Service Motivation among Veterans

Trembley, Do EMS Workers Have Implicit Bias? A Cross-Sectional Study of Public EMS Workers in the Midwest

Kang and Lee, Bureaucratic Whistleblowing, Agency Reputation and Citizens' Reactive Judgments

Kang and Rubin, Linking Justice and Performance in Public Organizations

Kim and Patwardhan, A Narrative Analysis on Virtual Conference Experiences during COVID-19: Opportunities for Female Academics with Young Children

Fenley, Trochmann and Viswanath, Bureau Men and Settlement Women: A Feminist Critique of the Housing Bureaucracy in United States

Scutelnicu, Career Trajectory of Academic Women: An Analysis of the NASPAA Member Schools

Ransom, Global Women's Networks and Climate and Community Resilience: Examination of Approaches to Empowerment

Today’s students in public affairs programs are tomorrow’s government and nonprofit leaders. By participating in experiential learning opportunities while in graduate school, students learn the critical thinking and data analysis skills they will need to succeed as public sector professionals in the real-world and contribute to effective governance. NASPAA believes strongly in experiential learning and the competencies students can grow when given the opportunity to test their developing knowledge and skills in relatively low stakes situations prior to graduation. This session covers:

• NASPAA’s new Institute for Innovative Teaching and Learning for Public Service and its upcoming online case repository Publicases
• The development of cases and engaging with practitioners and students during the process
• The process of getting a case published
• Using cases in the classroom

Adhikari, A Qualitative Exploration of Social Media Adoption by Atlanta Arts Nonprofits

Ao, Freihaut, Hu, Kapucu, Sellnow and Yuksel, Dynamics of Interorganizational Emergency Communication on Twitter During Hurricane Irma

Louis-Charles, Emergency Management, Media Frames and Protective Actions in the Aftermath of Irma

Olivier, Press, Pulse and Perceptions: How Does Media Attention Signal Responses to Environmental Crises across Local Governments?

Antony, Jung and Mao, State Governor's Crisis Communication Strategy During COVID-19: A Computation Analysis of Governor's Tweets across 50 States

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Ryu, Assessing the Dynamic Sustainability Performance of 50 States in the United States

Lee, Leaders Need to Be Led: Collaborative Leadership in Community-Driven Development

Ku, Voluntary versus Mandatory Approaches to Interorganizational Collaboration in Crisis Response Governance

Kim and Sa, Water Governance Change in South Korea and the Netherlands

Ogbechie, Lack of Public Trust as a Critical Public Administration Challenge

Bowman, Building Trust in Government: The Need for Direct Involvement of Citizens

Ibrahim, Corruption and Trust in Government in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Shaikh, Disinformation: A Public Policy Agenda in a Post-COVID-19 World

Wang, Trust in Local Government in South Korea

Global experts gather to discuss public administration around the world including the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges all are facing. The theme for this discussion will be: "Public Administration Professional Associations and COVID-19: Serving Members and Advancing the Greater Good"

Chen, Liu and Zhang, The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Public Service Motivation on Burnout

Jang, The Effect of Job Stress on Public Service Value among Public Employees

Kwa, Toward a Theory of Social Worker Turnover: Insights from the Global Literature on Motivations to Become a Social Worker

Payne-Quan Kep, Quamina Kep and Roach, Work-Family Conflicts: Navigating New Spaces and Boundaries During Disruptive Crises

Tummala, Constitutional Corruption in India

Basu, From ‘Cooperative’ to ‘Symbiotic’ Federalism in India: Lessons from the Pandemic

Jabeen, Jadoon and Salman, Governance Capacity and Legitimacy in Crisis Management: How Pakistan has Responded to COVID-19 Crisis

Shahan, When Confusion Facilitates Innovation: Explaining Bangladesh’s Response to COVID-19

Shim and Yoon, How to Make Data-Driven Policymaking Work: Managing Constraints of Public Data Integration

Ahn, Kim and Myeong, Living Labs for Loosely Coupled Smart City Platforms: Digital New Deal and Smart Governance

Lee and Park, Performance Gaming in the Public Sector: An Empirical Examination of the Dynamics between Motivation and Opportunity

Yang, The Affective Side of Information Technology

Cho and Park, Emergency Management Policy Issues during and after COVID-19

Mi, Peng and Zhang, Fighting COVID-19 with the Health Code: New Wisdom for Urban Governance

Sharma, Policy Responses to COVID-19 with Special Reference to India

Donald Moynihan is the inaugural McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. His research examines how to improve how government works and his lecture will look at the role of administrative burdens on public service. The last decade has seen new interest in the study of the frictions that people encounter in their interactions with public services, such as getting a driver's license, accessing the social safety net or pursuing basic civil rights like voting. Such administrative burdens can have big effects, reinforce patterns of inequality and be used in deliberate ways to make programs less accessible and more frustrating to the public. Such burdens present a challenge to public administration to demonstrate both relevance and rigor in a topic the public cares about and matters to policy outcomes. Join us to hear new research on administrative burdens and compare different approaches by the Trump and Biden administrations.

Ahn, Identifying the Public Manager's Perceived Uncertainty on the Ground: Concept Building and Measurement Validation from the San Pedro Watershed Case Study

Lee and Lee, Understanding the Emergence of Competition Networks in Adversarial Policy Contexts

Hung and Lu, What Brings Contracting Back In? A Systematic Review of Reverse Privatization Literature

Albers, Brugghemans, De Block, Van Den Oord and Vanlaer, Where Do Network-Level Tensions Come From? An External Network Perspective on the Crisis Management Response of the Antwerp Fire Service During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kolpakov, Discussant

Adeoye and Ran, Dissecting the Relationship between Democracy and Transparency: A Country Level Longitudinal Analysis

Berman, Fathurrahman, Ferdiansyah, Hariyati, Neiva, Prasojo, Puspasari, Sabharwal, Samartini, Syarien and Wijayanti, Strategic Management in National Programs: The Role of Performance Accountability and Competencies

Fröhlich, Toepler and Zimmer, Government/NGO Relationship Frameworks in the Era of Shrinking Space for Civil Society: A Review and Application to Russia

Bartle and Chen, Innovative Infrastructure Financing: A Capital Budgeting Implementation Guide for State and Local Governments

Kim, Institutional Effects on State Highway Maintenance Spending

Miller, Methodology for Inland Port Feasability Analysis

Professor Kendi will be interviewed by Susan T. Gooden, dean and professor at The L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, as they discuss antiracism and its role in public administration.

Jang and Washington, Collaboration Maturity: Investigating Challenges and Success Factors for Effective Homeless Emergency Discharge Coordination

Baer and Ferreros, State Eviction Bans: A Policy Response to COVID-19

Han, The Spillover Effects of Source of Income Anti-Discrimination Laws on Public Housing

Alibasic and Crawlye, Effectiveness of Local Government Responses to COVID-19 to Strengthen the Resilience of Communities in Northwest Florida

Berry and Boykin, Racial Justice and Social Equity Initiatives in U.S. Cities: Documentation, Determinants, Diffusion and Text

Ganapati and Powell, Securing the Perimeter: Why Local Governments Make the Decisions That They Do

Drenner, Subnational Governance: “A Bridge too Far” Unravelling the State of Georgia’s Pandemic Response

Kimura, The Change of the Power of Japanese Local Governments against the Pandemics

Adams, Academic Programming in Animal Health Regulatory Affairs: An Educational Platform for Mutual Understanding between Governmental Agencies and the Animal Health Industry

Larson, How COVID-19 has Highlighted the Importance of Partnerships with the Animal Health Industry and Strengthened the Need for One Health Initiatives

Mulcahy, Public Health and One Health: How Local Public Health Practitioners See Themselves in a One Health Framework

Stuteville, Why the Policy Process Matters in Animal Health

Massadikov, Digital Government Services During the Covid-19 Outbreak: The Example of Kazakhstan

Ford and Ihrke, Lessons from a Lost Year: The Challenge of Bringing Virtual Education to Scale

Bharath, The Right Policy Tool for the Job? An Examination of Cities’ Policy Tools to “Fix” the Affordable Housing Crisis

Wright, Transparency as a Politics of Experience in Local Government

Sillah and Jaw, Public Service Delivery and the Disconnect between Citizens and Government – A case study of the Gambia

Tao, Paudel and Basyal, Willingness to Pay for Environmental Improvement Programs in Times of Crisis: Empirical Analysis in Western Nepal

Roach, Chordiya and Sabharwal, New Public Management: Cross-national Impact on Organizational and Employee Outcomes

Du, He, Holzer and Lu, Convergence of Budgetary Reforms? A Comprehensive Study of Decisional Convergence of Performance Budgeting Foundations in the United States and China

Kim and Wang, Does Government Performance Signal Affect Citizens’ Satisfaction?

Han and Liang, Intensified Oversight, Data Manipulation and Performance-Based Accountability

Christensen and Ma, What Drives the Adoption of Third-party Evaluation: The Case of Doing Business in China

Holzer, Discussant

Bae, Addressing Commercial Gentrification in Seoul: What Seattle Can Learn from the Korean Mega-City

Porumbescu, Bringing Public Participation into the 21st Century: A Case Study on Public Budgeting in Seoul and New York City

Clute, Addressing Commercial Gentrification in Seoul: What Seattle Can Learn from the Korean Mega-City

Layden, Bringing Public Participation into the 21st Century: A Case Study on Public Budgeting in Seoul and New York City

Du, Sun, Zheng and Zou, An Assessment of Policy Effectiveness on Low-Carbon Pilot City in China

He, Sun and Zheng, Climate Policy Synergy: Mechanism and Effect

Kundo, Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation into Social Protection: The Case of Bangladesh

Sun and Yao, Provincial Environmental Inequality in China: Measurement, Influence and Policy Instruments Choice

D. Kim, Public Health versus Individual Freedom: Implications for Government Mask Mandate in Response to COVID-19

M. Kim, Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Framing Effects, Procedural Fairness and the Remaining Employees’ Reactions to Job Layoffs in Response to the Economic Shock of COVID-19 Crisis in U.S. Nonprofit Organizations

R. Kim, P. Kim, Ko and Shin, Intercrisis Learning in Disaster Response Network: Experience of Korea from MERS and COVID-19

Sim, Stories of Gyeonggi Disaster-Related Basic Income: In Response to COVID-19

You, How the Pandemic Has Changed Urban Life in Korea: Lessons from the Surveys of Seoul Residents' Cognitive, Emotive and Behavioral Responses to COVID-19

Kasonde and O'Toole, A Systems Thinking Approach to Addressing Rising Threats with Increased ICT and E-Governmental Practices

Ran and Shafi, A Contingency Perspective on Managing Accountability Paradoxes in Governance Networks

Kolpakov, Lee and Schaar-Buis, Assessing Collaborative Performance in Recidivism Reduction Networks

Dahir, Lanterman and Marchand, Assessing Sustainability of Collaborative Governance in Recidivism Reduction Networks

Qi and Ran, Paradoxes in Collaborative Governance

Beaudet, Chang and Kapucu, Partnerships and Network Governance for Sustainability in an Urban Environment for Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus

Lee, A Comparative Case Study of States' Responses to COVID-19: Using Text as Data

Deslatte, Experimental Designs for COVID-19 Research

Curley and Federman, Structured Coding of Governors' Executive Orders Related to COVID-19

Chen, System Dynamics as a Research Method for Public Policy and Public Health Applications

Brainard, Eikenberry, Jung and Webb Farley, Do Foundations Support (Anti-)Racism? A Critical Race Theory Perspective on Philanthropy and Racial Equity

Jeong, Mohammed-Spigner and Yun, Nonprofit Organizations and Social Equity: Nonprofits’ Practices and Nonprofit Scholars’ Perspectives

Evans, Kline and Stutts, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Central Virginia Nonprofits

Medina and LaRoux, Racial Diversity in the Hollow State: Does Government Funding Bend the Arc of Nonprofit Leadership Toward Justice?

Fraser and Singh-Sengupta, Six Feet and 8,378 Miles Apart: Using Collaborative Online International Learning to Teach Future Leaders

Yun and Viswanath, Social Equity in Public Administration Doctoral Dissertation Research

Yan, When Support Goes Awry: Education Accountability and Teacher Perceptions in India and China

Swindell, Opportunities and Barriers for Integrating More Practitioners into the MPA Classroom

Jeong, University Efficiency with Social Engagement, and the Effect of Government and Peers

Heyward, A Comparative Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States and the United Kingdom

Kim, Fighting against COVID-19 with Centralization and Collaboration: The Case of South Korea

Rodriguez-Acosta, Localizing the SDGs and COVID-19: Lessons from Latin America

Li, Singapore’s Policy Response to Covid-19: A State Capacity Perspective

Zhao, State Strategic Response to COVID-19: Do “Businessman Governors” Make a Difference

Merriman, Enhancing Staffing and Skill Levels in Local Election Administration: A Post-Pandemic Research and Policy Agenda

Liu, How Does Promotion Incentive Fail among Chinese Local Cadres?

Liu, The Influence of Differential Leadership to Deviant Behavior: The Moderating Effect of Locus of Control and Dispositional Mindfulness

Allgood, Fullerton, Jensen, Stritch and Swindell, Veteran Hiring Preferences in U. S. Local Governments

Han, Lee and Min, Community Benefit Provision of Hospitals: A Supply and Demand Approach

Dhillon, Public Sector Collaborative Practice, Street-Level Bureaucrat Work Perceptions and Equitable Service Delivery and Outcomes

Sullivan, Working Together: The Impact of Merging Continuums of Care on Homelessness and Homeless Services

Systemic racism has plagued the United States as well as many countries all over the world for centuries. While the equal treatment of all people regardless of their race, ethnic background or gender has been the aspirational ideal, the reality of life in this country has not lived up to this standard. While this systemic racism has manifested itself in many ways, the history and recent incidences of the police excessive use of force against non-white people and Black individuals, in particular, has been a failing of our communities. In 2020, we saw an increased recognition of this problem which is now regarded by an overwhelming majority of Americans as an unacceptable practice.

This work session will include a presentation of a system of police reforms to address incidences of police brutality as well as provide a framework for counteracting community racism and socio-economic disparities that are a result of discrimination.

The two presenters, James Bourey and Richard Myers, are long-time local government managers. An ASPA member, Mr. Bourey has over 37 years as a city and county manager in many locations throughout the country and six years as a consultant to local governments. Mr. Myers has served as a chief of police in many cities as well as provided guidance to other cities faced with a strong community response to police brutality incidences.

Berry-James, Examining Social Equity in Food Systems: A North Carolina Case Study

Leftwich, Increasing Voter Turnout Using Civic Engagement

Nwakpuda, The Search for Housing, with Psychosocial and Emotional Needs

Navarro, Do Incarcerated Individuals Deserve a Second Chance? The Deficiency of Restorative Justice Programs in Prisons and Jails

Jackson and Neshkova, Explaining Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System: Political Control Versus Representative Bureaucracy

Mitchell, Housing for Formerly Incarcerated Persons in New York State

Gustafson, Mcclellan, Racial Equity, Policing and the Push to Reform: How Framing Influences Problem Definition

Estorcien and Ganapati, Typology of Police Youth Organizations in Florida

Kleinschmit and Overton, Data Science Literacy in the Public Sector

Talukdar, Policy Conflict in Maryland Regional Housing Policy: The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in Handling Policy Conflicts
Peterson and Smith-Walter, Reconceiving Public Messaging on COVID-19: Stories of Hope and Fear

Kurtz and Kurtz, State Chief Executives as Policy Entrepreneurs in the Age of COVID-19: What Are the Lessons to be Learned?

Nakamura, A “Pracademic” Perspective and Approach for Government, Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Coproduction of Essential Services

Baldwin and Bezboruah, Food Insecurity: An Analysis of Organizational Response

Varkey, Using a Broader Conceptualization of Publicness to Understand Outcomes: Merging Moulton (2009) and Merritt's (2019) Frameworks

Johnson, Current Issues in the LGBTQ Community and Policy Recommendations

Naylor, Social Equity and LGBTQ Rights: Expanding Civil Rights

Norman-Major, Homelessness and the LGBTQ Youth Population