Mohamad G. Alkadry, Ph.D Professor and Head of the Public Policy Department at the University of Connecticut Email: mohamad.alkadry@uconn.edu Twitter: @malkadry / @UConnDPP Instagram: UConnDPP LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/735537/ Mohamad G. Alkadry serves as a Professor and Head of the Department of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut. He previously held academic and administrative appointments, and…
Returning to the Roots of #MeToo and Unanswered Questions for Academia to Tackle David M. Shapiro, CPA Fraud Risk and Financial Crimes Specialist Email: dshapiro@jjay.cuny.edu David M. Shapiro, CPA (inactive) is a Fraud Risk and Financial Crimes Specialist. He is also an expert generally on financial investigations and law enforcement. His extensive background includes work…
The Commonality of #MeToo in Academia: Why we need to change Shannon Portillo, Ph.D. Assistant Vice Chancellor KU Edwards Campus Associate Professor School of Public Affairs & Administration Email:sportillo@ku.edu Twitter: @Prof_SP Shannon Portillo is Assistant Vice Chancellor of Undergraduate Programs at the KU Edwards Campus and an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs…
WPS Spring 2019 Blog Series: Charting a Path for #MeToo in Academia Nicole M. Elias @NicoleEliasPhD Maria J. D’Agostino @MJDPHD Women in the Public Sector at John Jay College @JohnJayWPS Nicole M. Elias is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and co-founder of Women…
Globally corruption costs governments and businesses trillions of dollars each year. It distorts public policy objectives and damages trust. This makes for great difficulties for public administration, however scholarly analysis of public corruption is meager, especially in public administration and related fields. This symposium seeks to better understand how corruption affects public administration and how…
Symposium Editors: David B. Audretsch Indiana University https://spea.indiana.edu/faculty-research/directory/profiles/faculty/full-time/audretsch-david.html Donald S. Siegel Arizona State University (as of 7/1/17) http://www.albany.edu/business/Donald_Siegel.php Siri Terjesen American University Norwegian School of Economics, Norway http://www.american.edu/kogod/faculty/terjesen.cfm Entrepreneurship is a topic of growing interest to academics and policymakers. Scholars in the field of public administration have been slower than academics in other fields (e.g.,…
Comparative Public Administration in a Globalized World Moving Beyond Standard Assumptions towards Increased Understanding Increasing interconnectedness, collaboration, and competition in today’s globalized and multipolar world necessitate a deeper understanding of how and why administrative practices differ across regions and what that means for collaborative potential and performance. Until now, two contrasting scholarly perspectives dominate. The…
Symposium Editors: Staci M. Zavattaro University of Central Florida (staci.zavattaro@ucf.edu) Jasper Eshuis Erasmus University (eshuis@essb.eur.nl) Alex Marland Memorial University of Newfoundland (amarland@mun.ca) Images are powerful, integral elements of public administration and public policy. A 2017 Pew Research Center poll found that trust in the American government is at an all-time low, with only 20% of…
Symposium Editors Tobin Im Seoul National University | Center for Government Competiveness (tobin@snu.ac.kr) Robert K. Christensen Brigham Young University (rc@byu.edu) Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Aarhus University (lotte@ps.au.dk) Background: The research on government performance has enjoyed decades of development, resulting in an arguably robust–albeit evolving–interface with practice/application (e.g., Wechsler and Clary, 2000; Kroll and Moynihan, 2018). Performance researchers…
Symposium Guest Editors: Soonhee Kim (Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management) Kim Normann Andersen (Professor, Copenhagen Business School) Jungwoo Lee (Professor, Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University) While there are great variations in the political environments, organizational structures, civil service systems, and administrative cultures of governments across the globe, governments all adopt similar…