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作者：Klingner, Donald
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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作者：Sullivan, Terry
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Can the current presidential appointments process be improved? This essay highlights three kinds of problems: inexperienced appointees, a lengthening process, and tedious and adversarial inquiry. While the essay side-steps trying to affect the prerogatives of institutions involved in the tussle over appointments, it concentrates on improving the support of presidential personnel operations and the process of inquiry that nominees face, and it identifies patterns of repetitiveness among the rou...
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作者：Plant, Jeremy F.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
摘要：This essay examines the history of ASPA from internal and external vantage points, showing how the organization has continually adapted to demands from within and competition from without. ASPA is rooted in Progressive Era reforms that professionalized government during the first half of the twentieth century, spawning numerous associations of public officials dedicated to enhancing expertise and integrity throughout the public service. Changes in membership, mission, structure, conferences, p...
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作者：Stivers, Camilla
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
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作者：Fard, Hasan Danaee
作者单位：Tarbiat Modares University
摘要：Professor Ali Farazmand has written a manifesto for administrative action in an effort to improve public governance and administration capacity not only for today but also for tomorrow, which is highly volatile and uncertain. Farazmand's earlier works, especially his essay Globalization and Public Administration (PAR, November/December 1999), are familiar to many students and scholars in public administration around the world.
