Couldn’t agree more with @cbgoodman.co !

<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library President Trump altered the U.S. federal civil service system by reducing merit-based protections for bureaucratic expertise and expanding the scope of political appointments, shifting the balance lo...

Excited to see our PAR article out now and #OpenAccess!!

@colt-jensen.bsky.social and I find that political knowledge and public service motivation (PSM) are positively correlated with favorable perceptions of current merit system protections.

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Request for Proposals: Workforce and Expertise Research Stipends | The Volcker Alliance

ARRC invites proposals on timely research projects that advance work aligned with its Workforce & Expertise Community of Practice research priorities & advance understanding of how federal workforce capacity, expertise & attrition intersect w/ agency performance, equity & democratic accountability.

New The Effect materials today: introductions to basic coding and data manipulation in R, Stata, and Python. Get the wheels turning on using these languages with data with these intro pages and exercises:
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Excellent research on the role of values for decision making!

We bought a bunch! In addition to the cookbooks.

Also, “Fresh, from the vegetarian slow cooker” has tons of beans recipes, including how to prep your dry beans for all kinds of dishes. Big fan! We use a lot of dry beans and legumes.

Picture didn’t come through, the title of the book is: “The Rancho Gordo Vegetarian Kitchen”, tons of recipes with all kinds of beans.

We are fans of:

Race, gender, and rules: How intersectionality and congruence shape leadership perceptions Are Black women perceived differently as managers, beyond the separate influences of their race and gender? And are such judgments moderated by rule formalization? Using a survey experiment of US a...

Great to collaborate with @jaredamcdonald.bsky.social ky.social‬ @profsp.bsky.social & @zmomoney.bsky.social on this!

Out now in @ipmjournal.bsky.social - Race, gender, and rules: How #intersectionality and #congruence shape #leadership perceptions www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UC5VG...ct

This is alarming and it should terrify all who care about democracy.

Congrats @anadimand.bsky.social well deserved recognition of your scholarship’s impact and trajectory! Way to go my friend!

Will send you mine later tonight, @brunjes.bsky.social , @anadimand.bsky.social , @olehelby.bsky.social might also have resources to share.

Dear colleagues teaching procurement in public policy or administration, here's a small favor to ask. I'd love to see your syllabus to do a better literature review on my coauthored paper on State AI Procurement Contracts. Please reply to this thread or email me: jkim638@jhu.edu

How can public procurement become a driver of innovation and societal impact? Our latest study (together with
Andrea Patrucco, Tommaso Agasisti, Luca Tangi, Michele Benedetti, and Marco Gaeta) explores how Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI)

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Damn, this sucks Seb! I use the evaluations and designs from OES regularly in my courses to highlight the importance of rigorous evaluation for policy and decision making. This really sucks.

As @brunjes.bsky.social points out, the first Trump admin prioritized "efficiency" in contracting by consolidating (bundling) smaller contracts into larger ones. IOW, big companies won more contracts. The subset of elite, entrenched government contractors benefited most. 1/2

Tomorrow (Feb 5) at 10 am ET, I'll be testifying before the US House Oversight and Reform Committee on "Rightsizing the Federal Government."

For those interested, my written testimony can be found below.

Same!

I'm writing a paper (w/t Aniket Kesari at Fordham Law School) on state-level gov AI procurements focusing on how contract languages are crafted and negotiated with vendors. If you have experience in this space (either as a researcher or practitioner), we'd love to talk with you!

Happy New Years! Here is to a year of new possibilities. The behavioral budgeting special issue is now open for your submissions.

Public Contracting for Social Outcomes Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Public Contracting for Social Outcomes

Cambridge Element in Public Policy volume now out & Open Access

"Public Contracting for Social Outcomes" by Clare Fitzgerald & Ruairi Macdonald

- bit.ly/3ZF0eAt

My fellow Bush School professor, Eric Lewis, is on this paper too. They do some cool stuff with oil and gas drilling contracts. Check it out!

This starter pack of Public Admin scholars has two spots left (148/150). Nominate yourself - first come, first serve!

We had some success with op-ed assignments in our MPA, some got published in local newspapers. I’ll try to track them down.