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It was great to take the PhD course in network governance and present my work on administrative burden at this year's @irspm.bsky.social conference. Truly a great conference in a beautiful city, and with great scholarship!

#IRSPM2025 #Administrativeburden #Publicadministration

11.04.2025 13:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

this has been an inspiring way to launch the #IRSPM2025 experience in #Bologna.
Thank you to all participants and faculty for making this such a meaningful beginning!
#PhDCourse #CollaborativeGovernance #NetworkGovernance #PublicManagement #AcademicCommunity #GOMAP #disaunibo #unibo

03.04.2025 10:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Another successful ASPA conference. It was exciting to discuss the future of nonprofits and have some serious conversations about loneliness and citizen/service effectiveness. Time to leave the cherry blossoms and depart for IRSPM.

#ASPA2025 #IRSPM #IRSPM2025 #ASPA #publicadministration

31.03.2025 16:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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30.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Denizens of the Deep State Public administration in the United States has always been synonymous with the expansion of government and “expert” control.

This article seems to be making the rounds. To say that this is willfully ignorant of history and a discipline is an understatement. Paranoid and delusional is a good start.

americanmind.org/salvo/denize...

05.03.2025 21:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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18.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting this year on a high note. Candidacy, and now my first publication is out in Administration & Society.

Check out my paper on the potnetial future of public management post-Chevron. #Chevron #publicadministration #publicadmin #pascholar

18.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Opinion | The Barrage of Trump’s Awful Ideas Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To Amid an onslaught of bad ideas, Democrats need to muster a better vision for the future.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

Working link. Thanks for all this great writing!

15.02.2025 16:44 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2

The Government Waste DOGE Should Be Cutting The problem that really needs fixing is not the public employees but the private contractors—and Elon Musk is one of them.

"In 1946, the government employed about 2.5 million workers and ran a budget of $628 billion; in 2023, it had only half a million more workers, but its budget stood at $4.6 trillion. How does the government disburse this colossal budget? Through contracting." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

12.02.2025 20:55 — 👍 82    🔁 22    💬 8    📌 2

Thank you professor. I wouldn't be here without you. 😭

11.02.2025 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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3: Realizing that now I need to hurry up and finish the project.

11.02.2025 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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2: Elation after they tell you that you were successful.

11.02.2025 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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On a less serious note. Here are the three phases of my proposal process.

1: Second guessing yourself leading up to it, even though you are having dreams about your paper.

11.02.2025 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I am so happy to say that I am officially a doctoral candidate. My dissertation is composed of three essays addressing organizational change through populist emotional sentiment.

More specifically, I use the lenses of instititutional work, logic, and interaction rituals.

11.02.2025 18:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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You ever just look at an old paper you worked on and think...

01.02.2025 02:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There is very little work on the implications of these positions. Is it constitutional? Does it have any observable effect on policy outcomes? Or, is it just symbolic?

14.01.2025 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

American Czar - PA TIMES Online The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization. By Zach CuringaJanuary 13, 2025 “Heavy lies the head that wears the crown.” – Henry VI,...

In my first ASPA PA Times article of the year I briefly discuss executive appointments not subject to Senate confirmation. Specifically, those often deemed as "czars," and how it may stem from the growing tendency to enhance presidential control over policy issues.

14.01.2025 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0