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The Art of Judgement: An Organizational Analysis of the New York City Fire Department, September 11,2001 (A Case Study) [Analysis and Commentary]
Authors: Garrett Terence M.
Published: January 2017

I will argue that stories told by managers, and the subsequent judgments they make in the actual work, are an effective way to communicate useful knowledge to students and practitioners of public administration. The recent tragedy in New York City produced a massive response by many government agencies. The New York Fire Department was on the scene of the devastation early and had primary responsibility for safety and rescue. Nearly three thousand people died as a result of the calamity, including many firemen. The event produced a complex set of administrative problems that are worthy of investigation. Using a case study approach, I will examine the ability of administrators and workers to adapt to the chaotic milieu. In order to accomplish this task, I will be applying aspects of Sir Geoffrey Vickers' "appreciative systems" theory, Alfred Shutz's "social construction" theory, and Ralph Hummel's “bureaucratic experience" theory in the analysis. Additionally, I will be comparing another event, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the actions taken by the OCFD administrative leadership. The objective of the study comparison is to learn from experiences to yield new management insights and to enhance public administration.
Masthead
Authors: Team Editorial
Published: January 2017

Masthead
Teaching Public Administration: Challenges of Our Times - An Introduction
Authors: Bruce Willa
Published: January 2017

Symposium Introduction
Leadership Lessons from the World of Athletics: Up Close and Personal
Authors: Barth Thomas J.
Published: January 2017

The purpose of this paper is to organize the reflections of my sons on the leadership qualities of their coaches, representing 22 years of teams at the professional, college and high school ranks and eight head coaches. As a professor of public administration who teaches leadership in an MPA program, I was interested in examining how their observations compared and contrasted with prevalent leadership themes in respected books on the topic. My conclusion is that these reflections are worthwhile illustrations of a number of classic leadership theories and practices.
Moving On (Poetry)
Authors: Patterson Valerie L.
Published: January 2017

Valerie L. Patterson
Law & Order And Natural Justice
Authors: Pontuso James F.
Published: January 2017

One of the most important tenets of relativism is the fact-value dichotomy which holds that it is impossible to make judgements about good and bad from the experience of everyday life. Phenomena can tell us only what is happening; they cannout guide us in deciding how things should happen. The facts exist in the world experience, and judgements about the facts derive wholly from our wills. Thus, the values we adopt are entirely a free choice. Since all people have free will, every value choice is as good as any other.Law & Order challenges this supposition. Most plots begin with the discovery of a crime, usually a murder. Neither the police investigating the crime nor the audience has any idea why the mideed was committed or who did it. As the police look for clues, the truth slowly unfolds. Often there are false leads and the wrong person is arrested. Yet, when the truth becomes clear, it is evident who has perpetrated the offense and how he or she ought to be punished. The facts are all important in deciding what is true and therefore just. In effect, the facts quite clearly establish the "values."
Changing Images of Government in TV Entertainment Executive Summary and Analysis
Authors: Media and Public Affairs Center for
Published: January 2017

The Council for Excellence in Government and its Partnership for Trust in Government, with support from the Ford Foundation, commissioned the Center for Media and Public Affairs to study how television entertainment had depicted the public sector and people in government.
Eat or Be Eaten: A Revenge Fantasy
Authors: Hubbell Larry
Published: January 2017

Fred Cummings is an ABD working on his dissertation at a land grant institution in the Midwest. Unfortunately, four of the five members on his dissertation committee are making it difficult for him to complete it. Feeling powerless and vengeful, he plots four distinct plans to get back at each one of his faculty tormentors. His schemes have some unexpected results.
Dissertation Proposal Defense - "High-Tech Style:" A Student's Perspective on Another Use of Distance Learning Technology
Authors: Hollar Danielle
Published: January 2017

Most discussions of the increased use of distance learning focus on using distance learning technology for providing academic courses, a natural response to the high number of students taking distance learning courses.  In fact, by this year (2000) it is expected that 11.6 million students will have taken one or more distance learning courses (Goldberg, 1998 in Banas and Emory, 1998).  However, there are other uses for this technology within the educational setting.  One such use of distance learning technology in the graducate educational setting is for dissertation proposal defenses, particularly when dissertation committee members are located on university campuses that are geographically separated.  This paper is a case study describing such an event: a dissertation proposal defense facilitated by the use of interactive television (I-TV) distance learning technology.  Included in this case study is the presentation of a student's perspective on using distance learning technology, supplemented by faculty responses to a survey distributed by the student soliciting feedback on their experiences in participating in the I-TV facilitated proposal defense.
Reflections on Half a Career
Authors: Griggs Fran Germany
Published: January 2017

The author shares her thoughts on her twenty plus year career as a public administrator.
"Whose Swamp Is This, Anyway?"
Authors: Mendell Jay S.
Published: January 2017

A public offical is locked in a bitter,escalating territory war with a 25-foot alligator, unable to recognize that he projects onto the monstrous beast his own character faults - terrioriality and power-lust - which do not exist in nature. A bitter commentary on abuse of power.
An American Dream
Authors: Hansen R. J.
Published: January 2017

Malfunctioning of new technology causes mass confusion at the ballot box on the Election Day: people vote for fictional characters, actors who play them, and dead presidents; hard-core Republicans find themselves voting for Democratic candidates and proud liberals give their votes to representatives of the GOP.
Review of The Next Level: East Side Access Photographs by Hiroyuki Suzuki
Authors: Woolley Jonathan
Published: January 2017

Reviewed by Jonathan Woolley
Beyond the Limits: Reflections of a Black Working Class Academic
Authors: Dobson Frank E
Published: January 2017

A black professor's reflectins on his life and career
Star Search: Learning From Prominent Scholars
Authors: Cayer N. Joseph , Lan Zhiyong , Weschler Louis
Published: January 2017

The authors assign first-year doctoral students the task of conducting an assessment of the contributions of a "star" in the field of public administration.  As part of the assignment, students conduct interviews with the stars using email, telephone, and personal communication.  The interviews are the novel part of the assignment.  The inteviews foster unusually active and vivid linkages with the stars and, often, a sense of mentorship.  This paper details how faculty and students conduct the project.  It also offers faculty assessment of its effects.
Lessons from a Life of Quiet Service
Authors: Barth Thomas J
Published: January 2017

Reflections
Servant Leadership - An Introduction
Authors: Cunningham Robert
Published: January 2017

The meaning of the term "servant leadership" is explained and put into a historical perspective.
Servant Leaders in Public Service: Christian Spirituality in Practice
Authors: Bruce Willa
Published: January 2017

Relying on a survey of members of the American Society for Public Administration, servant leadership is examined through the lens of Christian spirituality.  Findings indicate that citizens can have confidence in the dedication and committment of public servants.
Robert K. Greenleaf: A Biographical Sketch
Authors: Center for Servant Leadership The Robert K Greenleaf
Published: January 2017

Robert K. Greenleaf: A Biographical Sketch
Table of Contents
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

TOC
Conclusion - Servant Leadership Symposium
Authors: Cunningham Robert
Published: January 2017

Implications of servant leadership for public administration in general and for teaching public administration in particular are discussed.
Bureaucracy in the Hebrew Bible: A Neglected Source of Public Administration History
Authors: Lee Mordecai
Published: January 2017

Histories of public administration have tended to give minor attention to the Bible.  This can partly be attributed to the Bible's unique role as a document revered as being of divine origin, which might discourage secular scholarly inquiry.  Another explanation focuses on the lack of originality in Israelite bureaucracy compared to those of other sophisticated empires of that era, such as Egypt.  The limited scholarship in the area focuses on the Bible's unique intellectual contributions, its timeless stories about ethical dilemmas and its interesting details about administrative structures and offices.  This essay seeks to identify and summarize the major descriptions of public administration contained in the Hebrew Bible and to encourage additional inquiries in this subject area.
Narrative in Literature, Film, Video, and Painting: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Their Relevance to Public Administration
Authors: McSwite O.C.
Published: January 2017

The hallmark (or it may just as well be called the stigmata) of the field of Public Administration is its complexity.  It comprises far more than the study of management and organization and the technical processes that go with this.Confronted with this degree of complexity, public administration has typically taken a catholic approach to its studies, drawing inspiration, concepts and research information from every corner of philosophy, social sciences, technical fields, and any other area of knowledge that seems to have relevance.  It is in this light that I want to discuss some theoretical and practical considerations relating to the narrative aspects of literature (primarily novels), film, video and painting.  I wish to consider these as resources for both theory construction and research design and for introducing students to the realitites that the field entails.
Mary Baker Eddy (by Gillian Gill)
Authors: Cole Kit
Published: January 2017

Book Review
Taxing Women (by Edward J. McCaffery)
Authors: Swayze Richard
Published: January 2017

Book review
Masthead
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

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History: The Invisible Present of Public Administration
Authors: Rutgers Mark , Luton Larry
Published: January 2017

The symposium editors explain the need for a deeper understanding of public administration's history.
Administrative Leadership and Social Change
Authors: Luton Larry
Published: January 2017

Although the history of public administration has not received the attention it deserves, leadership is a topic that bas enjoyed periodic bursts of attention among those who are concerned with issues related to governance, management, and adminis­tration. Most often these treatments of leadership focus on leadership within an organizational structure, within a corpo­ration or a bureaucracy. This article adds to the literature on administrative leadership by examining examples of the lead­ership of public administrators in a larger context, in social movements. Public administrators focused on in this article include: John Wesley Powell, Gifford Pinchot, Aldo Leopold.
Modern Times
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

Cover Notes
Bureaucracy on the Silver Screen: Images of the Public Sector in the Spanish Movies
Authors: Villoria Manuel
Published: January 2017

The purpose of this paper is to provide a general overview of images of public servants in Spain over a period of time (1932-1997). In order to achieve that goal, the author examines bureaucratic images in motion pictures from Spain beginning in the 1930s and finishing with the latest Spanish films shown in 1997.
Editorial Board & Masthead
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

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Public Service in "Greeneland"
Authors: Gawthrop Louis C
Published: January 2017

The essay examines four of Graham Greene's "administrative" novels.The focus of the article is on three basic perspectives that characterizeGreene's treatment of bureaucratic systems, in general, andpublic sector careerists, in particular. The central theme that Greeneseems to pursue in all of his novels-the persistent human struggle inthe attempt to attain a sense of authentic being-is developed withparticular effectiveness when he focuses on career civil servants andtheir organizational environments. His treatment of the public sectorserves to inform us of the ever-present danger of pursuing aninauthentic career in the service of democracy.
Masthead
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

PV VI Number 1
Through the Wall: Images of Administration out of Time, out of Place- An Introduction
Authors: Rutgers Mark R , Wagenaar Pieter , Farmer David J. , Gool Bas Van
Published: January 2017

Looking for alternative sources for understanding what constitutes our administrative reality is the topic of this symposium. It focuses on ways to get hold of the more "cosmological" underpinnings of our (Western) administrative universe. Making implicit assumptions and customary ideas about public administration visible to ourselves is diffcult precisely because they require us to lay bare the very assumptions that make up the idea of public administration in the first place. As we cannot see " throught the wall", we have to trace "windows" to get a fresh outlook.
Indian Administrative Cosmology: The Dharmic Bureaucracy?
Authors: Gool Bas Van
Published: January 2017

The many references to the pathologies of Indian bureaucracy indicate some interrelated underlying dynamics. It is found that- in the Indian case- the construction of conceptual models or cosmologies of public administration on the basis of authoritative, indigenous sources, enables one to come close to the "soul" of exotic administrative patterns, than if one were to stick to the Western approach to public administration.
Sick Organizations, Rabid Managerialism: Work-Life Narratives from People with Invisible Chronic Illness
Authors: Vickers Margaret H
Published: January 2017

This article explores the problematic nature of work-life for people  with ''invisible" chronic illness, especially given the recent rise of managerialism in modern organizations. Recent Heideggenian, phenomenological, exploratory research has uncovered work-life narratives from people who are "sick" (but who "appear'' well) and who are trying to survive in organizations that are "sick", demonstratingunreasonable expectations, unsupportive cultures-"rabid" managerialism. The argument commences with some comment about the perilous uncertainty characterizing life and work with "Invisible" chronic illness (ICI) which is briefly defined as an ongoing illness that cannot be seen" by others in the work-place. Illnesses such as HIV, cancer, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis constitute examples.
Mr. Findley, The Whiskey Rebellion, and Public Administration
Authors: Argyle Nolan
Published: January 2017

This study argues that the Whiskey Rebellion is a key episode in the development of the administrative procedures needed to govern a new nation. It represents the first major challenge to national administrative power under the Constitution, and, as such, can provide crucial insight to the development of and the legitimization of public administration in the new nation. This study provides a brief overview of the Whiskey Rebellion, then examines its administrative, legislative action, and public policy implications in the context of Federalist and Anti-Federalist thought. An examination of the Whiskey Rebellion as a public administration event not only increases our understanding of the development of the administrative function in the United States, it also helps contemporary students and practitioners of public administration gain a better understanding of the events of today.
Epilogue: Banging Our Head on the Wall?
Authors: Rutgers Mark R.
Published: January 2017

The questions posed in the introduction concerned our ability to make our implicit assumptions and customary ideas about public administration visible; can we look “through the wall”? It is up to the reader to draw lessons.
Visionary Voices: Women on Power, Conversations with shamans, activists, teachers, artists and healers
Authors: Hamilton Mary R.
Published: January 2017

Interviews by Penny RosenwasserReviewed by Mary R. Hamilton
Table of Contents
Authors: Team Editorial
Published: January 2017

Vol. XIV, #1
Practical Leadership in Public Administration: The Practicality of Poetry
Authors: Farmer David John
Published: January 2017

Can practical understandings about the human elements of leadership in Public Administration be gained from poetic literature? This paper argues that it can, supporting the view of a minority of theorists like Leo Strauss and Dwight Waldo. It analyzes four examples of such poetic utility in two Shakespearean plays – Henry V and Richard III. First, it analyzes how the winning-warrior leader Henry V is used in some business schools to teach MBWA (management by walking about). Second, it shows how the poetry in this play facilitates understanding the unconscious of public policy leadership. Third, it analyzes the relevance of text and sub-texts of the losing-warrior leader Richard III. Fourth, it analyzes the depth that Sigmund Freud explained in Richard III, including insights about what is explained as stronzi. The relevance is suggested for Public Administration theory and practice in such ways as upgrading its reflection about leadership.
Colluding to Create the American Society for Public Administration and the Consequent Collateral Damage
Authors: Lee Mordecai
Published: January 2017

The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) was founded in December 1939. This did not occur ex nihilo. Rather, it was the desired end-result of an elaborate and detailed collusion by some early public administration professionals including Louis Brownlow, Luther Gulick, and William Mosher. With patience and careful planning beginning in 1937, they designed a scenario that would, as the events they were catalyzing unfolded, undermine the Governmental Research Association (GRA) and provide justification for the new organization. This pre-birth campaign is often skipped over lightly in histories of ASPA. In particular, their collusion caused some serious collateral damage, destroying the academic career of University of Chicago doctoral candidate Norman Gill. This revisionist history explores the detailed maneuverings of the leaders of the nascent ASPA against GRA and how they, seemingly obliviously, wrecked the intended professional path of an innocent researcher who worked for them.
The Radical Right, the National Municipal League Smear File, and the Controversy over Metropolitan Government in the United States during the Postwar Years
Authors: Brennan John F.
Published: January 2017

This paper reports on activities undertaken by the National Municipal League (NML) and the Public Administration Service (PAS) during the 1950’s and 1960’s to counter libelous and slanderous actions taken by grass roots activists in opposition to efforts to reform metropolitan governance across the United States. I utilize records from the NML archives—and give special attention to their “Smear File”—to chronicle and analyze the key events and actors. Specifically, I focus on the ideas of opponents of metropolitan government reform from the South and West in the United States including Jo Hindman, Dan Smoot, and Don Bell. These individuals used right-wing idea distribution vehicles including magazines, small-town newspapers, and subscription newsletters to disseminate their arguments and rally support for their cause. I also analyze the actions of their foes at the NML and PAS—namely those of Alfred Willoughby, Executive Director of the National Municipal League; H.G. Pope, President of the Public Administration Service;Richard S. Childs, former President of the National Municipal League; and Karl Detzer,Roving Editor for Reader’s Digest and contributing writer for the National Municipal Review, the academic and professional journal of the National Municipal League. This study adds to the literature explaining the lack of metropolitan governmental frameworks at the local level in the United States, which has been built on the work of Charles Tiebout, Vincent Ostrom, Robert Bish, Ronald Oakerson, and Roger Parks. Although this analysis is idiographic and historical in perspective, it does not necessarily challenge the core empirical results of the nomothetic modeling of these scholars.
The Highway Coalition Revisited: Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework to Explore the Content of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Daily Transportation Update
Authors: Watts Richard , Mills Russell W. , Fish Robert
Published: January 2017

This paper examines the news articles selected for AASHTO’s Daily TransportationUpdate—an electronic news service circulated to 23,000 users each day—over a six-year period between 2006 and 2011. Using the advocacy coalition framework, the researchers argue that how an organization, in this case AASHTO, selects and aggregates news about transportation helps to shape and reinforce the dominant core beliefs of a policy subsystem. In this case study, we examine news selection in the context of an external shock—a change in presidential administrations—and two internal policy shocks—the turnover in authorizing committee leadership and the collapse of the Interstate-35W Bridge in Minnesota. We found that that the selected news articles illustrate the transportation subsystem’s core belief in motorized forms of transportation over nonmotorized forms.
“Reinventing” Higher Education: Symbolism, Sloganeering, and Subjectivity in the Lone Star State
Authors: Zavattaro Staci M , Garrett Terence M.
Published: January 2017

The authors analyze public higher education policy in Texas during the current era of fiscal austerity in the state through Morgan’s (2006) images of organizations. Scarce resources have led to cuts in educational funding and a refocusing of faculty work using statistical methods designed to enhance the status of teaching over research. In the name of efficiency using “reinventing government” rhetoric, politically appointed Regents and their ideological proponents in the Texas Public Policy Foundation have made attempts to turn what is commonly thought of as a public good into a consumer one. Faculty and their supporters have resisted these initiatives. The authors employ Morgan’s (2006) images of organizations as political systems, cultures, and psychic prisons as modes of understanding the conflict and lack of consensus between these affected groups.
Finding My Way
Authors: Morrissey Margaret
Published: January 2017

In this self-study, the author explores how she experiences isolation and belonging in new situations by walking and taking photographs of shadows along her commute route, the five-mile length of High Street that runs from the San Francisco Bay to the base of the Oakland Hills.
Creating the First Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations (1941-1949) and Subsequent Developments: A Case Study of Thickening in the Federal Bureaucracy
Authors: Lee Mordecai
Published: January 2017

This case study presents historical proofs of the thickening dynamic in federalexecutive branch agencies that Light had conceptualized in 1995. This inquiry focuses on the now-standard position of assistant secretary for Congressional liaison found in most Cabinet departments. The case study traces the incremental creation of the first such assistant secretaryship in the State Department between 1944 and 1949 and then a gradual horizontal thickening as the office spread to most Cabinet departments. The subject of the case study also provides an opportunity to explore the role of legislative relations in public administration, a subject largely neglected in the literature.
Forging Theatre and Community: Challenges and Strategies for Serving Two Missions
Authors: Balfour Danny L , Ramanath Ramya
Published: January 2017

At the age of personal computers, the Internet, cell phones, video games, and I-pods, how can individuals be enticed to emerge from their electronic silos and actually engage others in meaningful discourse as members of a community with common interests and problems? One organizational response to this challenge is the activities of community-based organizations. Such organizations are widely recognized for their ability to promote and facilitate creative face-to-face human interactions that serve as a counterweight to the forces of individuation and declining trust in public institutions, while playing a niche role in the process of building and sustaining community solidarity.Through an in-depth examination of one organization that strives to build community through face-to-face interaction—Live Arts community theatre in Charlottesville, Virginia—the authors discuss what they believe to be critical concerns of the nonprofit sector at large. In particular, they examine how Live Arts seeks to preserve and balance its mission of achieving artistic excellence that challenges and engages the community, the need for financial sustainability, and more efficient production and management systems.
Public Service Motivation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Authors: Mastracci Sharon
Published: January 2017

In this paper, the author examines public service as depicted in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS). First, she shows how slaying meets the economist’s definition of a public good, using the BtVS episode “Flooded” (6.04). Second, she discusses public service motivation (PSM) to determine whether or not Buffy, a public servant, operates from a public service ethic. Relying on established measures and evidence from shooting scripts and episode transcripts, the author concludes Buffy is a public servant motivated by a public service ethic. In this way, BtVS informs scholarship on public service by broadening the concept of PSM beyond the public sector; prompting one to wonder whether it is located in a sector, an occupation, or in the individual. These conclusions allow the author to situate Buffy alongside other idealized public servants in American popular culture.
Masthead
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

Opening pages of the issue Public Voices Vol. 12 No. 2
Breaking the Teacup: Imagining a Perfect Lonely World in The Tempest
Authors: Wachhaus Aaron
Published: January 2017

The Tempest is set on a remote island, outside the bounds and boundaries of civilization. The displacement that this utopia imposes on the characters stranded there frees them from their own social place and allows them to imagine ideal forms of government and social order. Thus, The Tempest becomes a laboratory for experiments in governance and the exercise of power. Variables include reason, rule, and the power of words to compel and order men in society. This paper explores issues of sovereignty on several levels – control of the land, control of others, and control of one’s self. On all of these levels, a distinction is made between the power to compel and the power to integrate (“powerover” and “power with” in Follett’s terms). The tensions between these forms of power, and between imagined and practiced governance, illustrate problems public administrators continue to face.
Developing Professional Competence in Graduate School: Student Experiences of the Social Work Curriculum
Authors: Kessen Christine , Turner Kielty
Published: January 2017

This qualitative study explores the development of professional competence in masterslevel social work students at a faith-based university in the northeastern United States. Through focus groups, students discuss aspects of the implicit and explicit curriculum that helped them develop mindfulness, self-compassion, and empathy – qualities thought to contribute to professional competence in social work practice.Considering their years of study, students identified specific course topics, activities and assignments as well as relationships with students, advisors, and internship supervisors. Support of fellow students and unconventional experiences such as meeting a homeless man on the street had a strong impact on students’ development of the qualities being studied. Implications for social work education and professional training for the helping professions are discussed. These preliminary results are part of a larger longitudinal study in progress.
Improving the Health of Northeastern Pennsylvania through Medical Education and Community Engagement
Authors: Simoyan Olapeju , Townsend Janet
Published: January 2017

Medical schools have been charged with the responsibility for increased emphasis on social accountability. The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC) is playing a critical role in educating future physicians to help alleviate the region’s severe health professional shortage by training community physicians who will work in this region to improve its health status.TCMC partners with community organizations and health professionals to ensure that students learn the fundamentals of community engagement and service-based practice. The curriculum involves student research projects that foster commitment to community involvement and participatory research. TCMC also collaborates with several educational partners in the region. An example is the partnership with a regional university to develop a public health certificate program and a combined MD/MPH program. Interprofessional training is another feature of the curriculum and TCMC is partnering with dental professionals in the region to incorporate oral health into the medical school curriculum,with a focus on preventive oral health care. Through these and several other programs, TCMC aspires to train community- oriented physicians who will practice medicine in a holistic manner and ultimately contribute to improving health in Northeastern Pennsylvania and beyond.
Pop Culture as Civics Lesson: Exploring the Dearth of State Legislatures in Hollywood’s Public Sector
Authors: Lee Mordecai
Published: January 2017

While there is a growing body of academic literature on the cinematic depictions ofAmerican politics, there has not been a specific focus on the screen image of statelegislatures, the source of the laws that public administrators in state government are empowered by. This exploratory inquiry seeks to identify, describe and analyzeHollywood’s presentation of state legislatures. While only six movies and one television series met the criteria used for this investigation, these few examples conveyed, in part, the vividness and dynamism of the work of state legislatures. Of the seven examples, six occurred in the South and several put the legislature in a reactive role to the governor. Still, given Hollywood’s requirement for drama that necessitates exaggerating reality, these seven examples nonetheless were, in part, credible visual depictions of state legislatures doing their jobs.
Of Promise and Peril: Doctoral Study in Public Administration in the 21st Century
Authors: Phillips John R
Published: January 2017

The author, a recent graduate of the Doctor in Public Administration program, shares his thoughts about what it means to study public administration in the twenty-first century. He hopes his insights, born out of more than a forty year-long career in the field—decades of work in colleges and universities as a faculty member, dean, provost, vicepresident, and acting president, as well as his extensive experience in teaching public administration at the graduate and undergraduate levels—will help doctoral students in their academic pursuits. More specifically, he hopes that his remarks will make Ph.D. students think more deeply about the promise of their endeavors and, on the other hand, give them advance warning about perils of the process and ways to avoid them.
Brutally Revealing: Voices Rising Out of San Quentin State Prison
Authors: Ketelle Diane
Published: January 2017

This manuscript recounts the writing of inmates in a writing workshop project taught by the author at San Quentin State Prison. Through the process of writing personal narratives the inmates came to render new meaning from their lived experience. The process of writing bypassed rigid defenses developed in prison, and inmates were able to write and share without being left vulnerable. Writing, in this way, helped inmates who participated to escape the monotony and boredom of prison life and provided opportunity for reflection and personal growth.
Emotional Labor: Putting the Service in Public Service
Authors: Gordon Victoria
Published: January 2017

Reviewed by Victoria Gordon
Table of Contents
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

Vol. XI, #1
Panning for Gold: Finding a Few Nuggets of Positive Images of Government in American Pop Culture
Authors: Lee Mordecai
Published: January 2017

American history suggests that our culture is anchored by a powerful mistrust of government.Even more so, the recent past has seen an intensification of this unremitting hostility toward American public administration in public opinion and popular culture. In this context, a symposium on positive images of public servants in pop culture is truly contrarian and, therefore, refreshingly different.
Are They Ready for Their Close-Up? Civil Servants and Their Portrayal in Contemporary American Cinema
Authors: Pautz Michelle C. , Roselle Laura
Published: January 2017

Perceptions of government and civil servants are shaped by a variety of factors including popular culture. In the public administration literature the significant role that film and other narrative forms have on citizens’ perceptions is duly noted, and there is ample research on politicians and military heroes in film, but a focus on civil servants remains largely elusive. Among the sparse literature centered on civil servants are studies that employ a case study approach or focus on a few films. In contrast, our research employs a large sample of 150 films. These films comprise the top ten box-office grossing films from 1992 through 2006; therefore we examine the films most likely to have been seen by a majority of movie-watching Americans. More than 60 percent of the films in our sample portray government as bad, inefficient, and incompetent. However, the data on more than 300 civil servants yield intriguing findings. Surprising, in light of the negative depiction of government, is the positive depiction of individual civil servants. Half of civil servants were positively portrayed, and only 40 percent were negatively depicted. Americans may view government negatively, but they see in film positive depictions of how individual civil servants can and do make a positive difference.
Teaching Special Topics in Public Administration Using Select Episodes of NBC’s West Wing to Support and Supplement Class Lecture and Textbook Readings
Authors: Popejoy Michael W.
Published: January 2017

Using the award-winning series The West Wing, the author argues that education and entertainment can coincide comfortably, but not without a guided cross walk provided by the classroom instructor before, during (at particularly critical points), and after viewing the episode.
Інвазивні кандидози в дітей із тяжким сепсисом
Authors: Filyk O.V.
Published: February 2017

Інфекції кровотоку, асоційовані з наданням медичної допомоги та спричинені Сandida spp., посідають третє місце серед усіх інфекцій у відділеннях інтенсивної терапії в США та Європі. Candida spp. — це найчастіші збудники інвазивного мікозу, а 70–90 % випадків інфікування трапляються в стаціонарі. Ми вивчили дані літератури щодо поширення та причин розвитку інвазивного мікозу в дітей у критичному стані; проаналізували його поширеність серед пацієнтів із тяжким сепсисом, які перебували на стаціонарному лікуванні; установили фактори ризику розвитку інвазивних мікозів у дітей із тяжким сепсисом та частоту поширення флюконазол-резистентних штамів Candida spp. До відкритого обсерваційного проспективного нерандомізованого дослідження увійшли 18 дітей із тяжким сепсисом. Критеріями включення в дослідження були клінічні ознаки тяжкого сепсису, мікологічні критерії доведеного інвазивного мікозу, вік дітей 1 міс. — 3 роки; критерієм виключення — термінальний стан пацієнта. Усі пацієнти з метою профілактики розвитку інвазивного мікозу при верифікації тяжкого сепсису отримували флуконазол у дозі 10–12 мг/кг/добу. Нами встановлено, що серед 18 пацієнтів із тяжким сепсисом у 13 хворих (72 %) виявлено Candida spp. у зазвичай стерильних біологічних рідинах організму. Емпіричне призначення флуконазолу з метою профілактики в пацієнтів із тяжким сепсисом та наявністю 8 і більше факторів ризику розвитку інвазивного мікозу в 72 % випадків було неефективним. У 61,5 % пацієнтів із тяжким сепсисом та інвазивним мікозом верифіковано наявність флюконазол-резистентних штамів Candida spp., що може бути зумовлено безконтрольним масовим застосуванням флюконазолу з метою профілактики. Застосування індексу колонізації та коригованого індексу колонізації допоможе об’єктивізувати потребу в призначенні протигрибкових препаратів, а суворе дотримання правил асептики зменшуватиме витрати на лікування інвазивного мікозу.
Післяопераційний біль у дітей (огляд літератури)
Authors: Mishchuk V.R.
Published: February 2017

Питання лікування післяопераційного болю у дітей не має остаточного вирішення, що зумовлено стереотипним підходом до оцінки болю й особливостями фармакотерапії болю у педіатричних пацієнтів. У літературному огляді наведено сучасні рекомендації щодо лікування післяопераційного болю у дітей. Наголошується на пріоритетності мультимодальної аналгезії з використанням регіонарних методик у поєднанні з системним застосуванням анальгетиків різних груп.
Composição centesimal do leite e incidência de mastite em ovelhas da raça Bergamácia mantidas em pasto ou confinamento
Authors: Luiz Carlos Vieira Júnior
Published: January 2017

The effect was evaluated of production systems (animals grazing and in feedlot) on milk centesimal composition, such as mastitis incidence on Bergamasca sheep. 31 animals divided in two groups were used. Group 1 Pasture (P): animals pasture on Panicum maximum var. Tanzania; and Group 2 Feedlot (C): in feedlot animals fed with corn silage and concentrate diet at 85:15% ratio during the third end of gestation an 65:35% ratio during lactation. Lambs were separated from mothers 48 hours after parturition. Weekly samples at the morning and the afternoon, to analyze milk centesimal composition were collected. There was no difference (P
Efeito do nível de células somáticas sobre o rendimento do queijo prato
Authors: Karyne Oliveira Coelho
Published: January 2017

The present study was proposed to evaluate the effect of levels of somatic cells in the milk on Prato cheese yield. To achieve this goal, we selected animals with somatic cell count  100.000 cells/mL; SSC  100 to 400.000 cells/mL; SSC>400.000 cells/mL. The animals did not receive antimicrobial treatment before and on the day of the milk collection. Five batches were manufactured from each group. During processing was performed to assess income and adjusted income. Observed in this study that the SSC negatively affected the yield of cheese.
Elaboração, caracterização e avaliação de kefir à base de leite de cabra
Authors: Yânez André Gomes Santana
Published: January 2017

The production of goat milk can become an important tool in the politics of food production and food security, thus suggesting the development of new products to add value and increase its acceptance, for example, kefir is a drink made from fermented milk at room temperature. Considering the potential about the goat milk like a food, this work was developed to create a fermented product (Kefir) with base in goat milk and to evaluate their physical-chemical characteristics and acceptance. The pasteurized goat milk received the addition of kefir unhydrated grain. Analysis of pH, acidity, humidity, ask and density, were realized. The tests were realized with sixty people that tried about preference and intention buy test with a prefer scale. Four formulations were tested, one with a natural (A) savor and three with strawberry savor with different concentrations: (B, C and D) 30, 40 and 50 %. The preference between the samples were analyzed with statistics using the variance (ANOVA) and the average comparison was determined using the Tukey Test for average comparison a level of 5 %. The results showed that had a great acceptance wish the strawberry savor (D), but some opposition about the goat milk odor.
PENGARUH PEMBELAJARAN KEWIRAUSAHAAN TERHADAP MOTIVASI BERWIRAUSAHA
Authors: Fahmi Reza
Published: February 2017

This study aims to explain the influence of entrepreneurship learning towards motivation to conduct business among students of Faculty of Ushuluddin at the Imam Bonjol State Institute of Islamic Studies of Padang. Data for this study was gathered through a population of students from four departments within the faculty, namely: Psikologi Islam (PI), Tafsir Hadist (TH), Perbandingan Agama (PA), Aqidah Filsafat (AF). Off the population, 92 students were chosen for the sample. Observation, questionnaire, and documentation were employed as the technique of data gathering. The findings show that there was a significant influence between the entrepreneurship learning and motivation to conduct business among students of Faculty of Ushuluddin IAIN Imam Bonjol Padang.

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan pengaruh pembelajaran kewirausahaan terhadap motivasi berwirausaha mahasiswa Fakultas Ushuluddin Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Imam Bonjol Padang. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dari responden yang berasal dari Fakultas Ushuluddin IAIN Imam Bonjol Padang, yang terdiri dari empat jurusan: Psikologi Islam (PI), Tafsir Hadist (TH), Perbandingan Agama (PA), Aqidah Filsafat (AF) dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 92 orang. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan observasi langsung, angket dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan antara pembelajaran kewirausahaan dengan motivasi berwirausaha mahasiswa Fakultas Ushuluddin IAIN Imam Bonjol Padang.
The current trend in judicial and parliamentary responses to shareholders unanimous assent: A comparative perspective
Authors: Nwafor Anthony O.
Published: February 2017

The doctrine of shareholders unanimous assent principally recognises the powers of the shareholders to override the procedural requirements for passing resolutions in matters of company business. This principle, which has withstood the test of time, is presently generally referred to as the Duomatic principle. Although generally accepted as a useful tool in expediting corporate decisions and enjoys statutory recognition in some jurisdictions, its scope has been subjected to varying judicial definitions to the extent that unless assent is positively expressed by the relevant organs of the company, the reliance by the courts on the equitable principles to impute assent has been unsettling in some cases. The paper compares the judicial and parliamentary responses to the Duomatic principle in three jurisdictions and argues that the principle should apply to every decision that is within the competence of the relevant organs of the company irrespective of where the procedural rules are prescribed
Corporate governance disclosure quality: exploratory evidence from the UK
Authors: Mulgrew Mark , Reynolds Mulgrew
Published: February 2017

A fundamental aspect of good corporate governance is the protection of shareholders and their investments. These stakeholders are now demanding increasing levels of transparency in all aspects of business with a greater emphasis being placed on non-financial information for investment decision making. While the majority prior research has examined the corporate governance practices of the firm, research investigating the actual disclosure of corporate governance practice is scarce. This study contributes to this debate by providing exploratory evidence on the levels of corporate governance disclosure quality and compliance in a sample of 40 UK listed firms throughout the period 2002 to 2009. Findings report a notable increase in disclosure quality and compliance over this period with the greatest increase occurring from 2002 to 2004/05 and suggest that firms are responding to calls from investors.
The enigma of corporate governance
Authors: Teng Kevin Low Lock , Gun Fie David Yong , Shanmugam Bala
Published: February 2017

The issue of corporate governance has in recent years received more attention than it would ordinarily have in the light of series of corporate failure that gave rise to implications the affect not only those directly connected with the corporations concerned, but also those affected by its existence such as employees, customers, suppliers and the environment. This interest is further aggravated by occurrences of major corporate failures such as the collapse of the BCCI Bank, collapse of the Barings Empire, the Daiwa Bank debacle and the Maxwell affair which all have pointed to the lack of a proper corporate governance system as a major course. Studies have shown that a majority of corporate failures were predominantly dominated by one individual, occupying a position of trust, who apart from losing large amounts of money also committed illegal acts.
Investment analysts’ usage and perceived usefulness of corporate annual reports
Authors: Ho Simon S.M. , Wong Kar Shun
Published: February 2017

This paper reports a study of the perceptions and beliefs of external users (investment analysts) of corporate annual reports in one of major international financial centres – Hong Kong. It was found that analyst users (1) view annual reports as having high information value particularly in terms of relevancy, (2) have a relatively high usage of annual reports and read the income statement and balance sheet most often, (3) consider the most important voluntary disclosure items to be discussions of factors affecting future financial results, future prospects of the company, main product market share, acquisition and disposal activities, and China business review, and (4) feel annual reports are somewhat useful, but the amount of information disclosed remains inadequate. Only a small percentage of users felt that the current disclosure requirements are either effective or very effective in serving investors’ needs and that much improvement is still needed. The implications of these findings for management, investors, regulatory bodies and researchers are discussed.
Managerial compensation and firm performance: Evidence from corporate spinoffs
Authors: Li Qian , Reis Ebru
Published: February 2017

In this paper, we study changes in the incentive structure of the CEOs in both parent and spun-off companies, and the effect of managerial incentives on operating performance due to an improved agency relationship between shareholders and managers of both firms after the spinoff. We construct a unique dataset that covers corporate spinoffs between 1992 and 2004. We find a certain level of increase in pay-performance sensitivity of the CEOs of spun-off firms as compared to the CEOs of parent firms. We find that pay-performance sensitivities of both parent and spun-off firms’ CEOs are positively related to the operating performance improvement after the spinoff. Overall, our study provides evidence that improved managerial incentive is a source of gains in spinoffs.