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Abernathy, Jacqueline H. – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
This study evaluates faculty efforts to accommodate graduate students in the Tarleton State University Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Criminal Justice programs called away from classes in the first weeks of the 2017 academic year as disaster responders called into duty by Hurricane Harvey. The evaluation employed a theoretical…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Public Service Occupations
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Rubaii, Nadia; Appe, Susan; Lippez-De Castro, Sebastian – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
Despite repeated calls to temper the bureaucratic ethos and its associated process-oriented pathologies with more of a democratic ethos grounded in normative values and the public interest, the practice, research, and teaching of public administration continues to largely perpetuate the former. In this paper we build upon the work of Camila…
Descriptors: Public Affairs Education, Prevention, World Problems, Death
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Mathias, Megan – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
Developing the next generation of leaders in government is seen as a strategic challenge of national importance in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This article examines the wicked nature of the UAE's leadership development challenge, identifying patterns of complexity, uncertainty, and divergence in the strategic intentions underlying current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Public Agencies, Strategic Planning
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Pacheco, Regina Silvia; Franzese, Cibele – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
This paper discusses the challenges of professional education for mid-career public managers at graduate level, pointing out pitfalls to avoid and obstacles to face. Analyzing the Brazilian case, the goal is to raise issues that may also be present in other cases. The main argument developed here is that the puzzle faced by graduate programs on…
Descriptors: Management Development, Public Service Occupations, Professional Education, Graduate Study
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Bright, Leonard – Teaching Public Administration, 2018
Scholars have long suggested that the degree orientations of public administration programs were related to the attitudes and behaviors of students, even though empirical research had failed to confirm this relationship. The purpose of this study was to re-examine this question from the standpoint of perceptions of fit. Using a sample of…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Graduate Students, Degree Requirements, Student Surveys
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Wafa, Dina – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
The past few years have witnessed a wave of unrest in Egypt toppling down two regimes in less than three years. Yet was this sufficient to bringing the demanded change and meeting people's expectations? In several Arab countries, citizens are offered patronage through public sector employment, subsidies, and limited taxation (Razzaz and Razzaz,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration Education, Public Administration, Capacity Building