Category: Public administration

Tax increases for wealthy businesses and individuals

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Write an essay (800-1000 words) to address the following questions:
House Democrats recently outlined tax increases for wealthy businesses and individuals. Some business interest groups have opposed tax increases because they argue that higher taxes reduce job growth. Articulate a research design that would test this hypothesis. Clearly identify the dependent variable, and some relevant independent variables. Assuming you could get any data you want, specify your research design process including the research questions, hypotheses, unit of analysis, measurements, sample, and research design methods (e.g., experiments, surveys, case studies, existing data analysis)? Then discuss any potential threats to the reliability and validity of the study. Finally, speculate what results you might find and their policy implications.

 

Challenges facing public administration

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There is a video that is attatched below.
Watch the 65 minute video from Maxwell School of Syracuse University, “Governance Challenges and the Future of a New Public Service.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigeOD1Q4uw

  1. In your opinion, what are the three greatest challenges facing public administration (or nonprofit sector) today?
  2. Select one of the challenges you identified in Question 1 and discuss how the trends in public administration (or nonprofit) might either improve or
    intensify the challenge you identified.

Congressional Clean Lakes Task Force Assignment

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Dr. McGinnis was involved in the Clean Lakes Study at Lake Allatoona, Georgia and facilitated the creation of a collaborative network of federal, state,
regional, and local agencies, and organizations to guide the study. This effort was a nationally recognized model of intergovernmental management
promoted throughout the U.S. by the U.S. EPA.
Analyze the collaborative effort as a model of intergovernmental management.

Public administrators becoming “more the problem than the solution”

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During the Graduate Synthesis course, we have examined the challenges that public administrators face when trying to be good public servants. These challenges can shape their chances for successfully carrying out their administrative and “shared” responsibilities. One might say the search for the “good” public administrator begins with an examination of both the challenges public administrators face as well as their skills and talents (good listener, inclusive, reflexive, autonomous, good facilitator, mutually responsive, advancing social equity, etc.) that typically factor into the the work of serving as effective public problem-solvers for society and its members.
A challenge public administrators face is that they themselves may at times become more the problem than the solution. An old political phrase from the 1960s suggests that “if you are not part of the solution, you are the problem.”
Part One: Give two (2) reasons for public administrators themselves becoming “more the problem than the solution” when administering for the common good and facilitating administrative change.
Part Two: After identifying the reasons you believe that public administrators may themselves at times become part of the problem, provide at least two (2) change strategies to help public administrators emerge as problem-solvers rather than problem-creators.
You may apply your theoretical arguments to the practice of public administration by drawing on your professional experiences and utilizing related examples and illustrations (including from health care, if that is your option) to support your response. Specifically, draw on Jun, Bolman and Deal, Denhardt and Denhardt, and other sources as appropriate.
Resources:
1. Denhardt, J. V., & Denhardt, R. B. (2015). The New Public Service: Serving, not steering (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. [ISBN: 9781138891258] https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csueastbay/detail.action?docID=1987301
2. Jun, J. S. (2006). The social construction of public administration: Interpretive and critical perspectives. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. [ISBN: 978- 0791467268] https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csueastbay/detail.action?docID=3407710

 

 

 

 

 

Obstacles to implementing participatory governance approaches

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Various arguments in support of community problem solving are addressed in most of the readings assigned this semester as well as in courses throughout the program. One idea is that coproduction engages community members in shared governance for deliberative democratic problem solving and participative policy making. Drawing on the work of Denhardt and Denhardt, Jun, Stivers, or other authors, write an essay that addresses the following questions.
You may apply your arguments to the practice of public administration by drawing on your professional experiences and utilizing related examples and illustrations (including from health care, if that is your concentration) to support your response.
Part One: What are two (2) examples of obstacles to implementing participatory governance approaches such as social design? How do these obstacles affect the interactions between the participant volunteers and public agencies sponsoring these co production efforts? How might the community members they serve be impacted?
Part Two: What two (2) considerations for adopting participatory governance should an interested administrator take into account when planning to recruit community volunteers for a co-produced program? How might planning with regard to these two considerations reduce the likelihood of a failed participatory process?
Resources:
1. Denhardt, J. V., & Denhardt, R. B. (2015). The New Public Service: Serving, not steering (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. [ISBN: 9781138891258] https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csueastbay/detail.action?docID=1987301
2. Jun, J. S. (2006). The social construction of public administration: Interpretive and critical perspectives. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. [ISBN: 978- 0791467268] https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csueastbay/detail.action?docID=3407710
3. Stivers, C. (2008). Governance in dark times: Practical philosophy for public service. Georgetown University Press. [ISBN: 9781589011977] [Permalink for access via CSUEB