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Organizational Assessment Of The Parks And Recreation Department: Jamestown, Ri, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Organizational Assessment Of The Parks And Recreation Department: Jamestown, Ri, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management Publications
The objective of this assessment was to identify opportunities for improvement in the operational, organizational and economic efficiency of the Department and practicable opportunities for enhancing the quality of its product and services.
The Role Of Comparative Analysis In Borderlands Studies, Christine Brenner
The Role Of Comparative Analysis In Borderlands Studies, Christine Brenner
Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series
The paper explores the question, “What global core competencies can public administration glean from the field of borderlands studies?” Borderlands studies have traditionally focused on the geographic area on or near the frontier demarcation between nation states. Borderlands also function as buffering or mediating zones where often markedly different countries develop complex networked administrative systems to permit the passage of peoples and products across territorial boundaries. In this way borderlands often shape the administrative and policy decisions made in the centers of national power. This paper employs content analysis to review ten years of the Journal of Borderlands Studies (2011 …