Center for Public Administrators
A civil society organization that strengthens democratic checks and balances .
I’m pleased my work was cited in this very interesting article by Stephen Osborne, Tie Cui, Katharine Aulton and Joanne Macfarlane published in Administrative Theory and Praxis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10841806.2022.2158638
I am grateful to have received a grant from the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County. The grant supports our ongoing research, writing and teaching to strengthen the role of public sector workers in democratic checks and balances.
I presented a teaching case on Independent Demonstration Projects at the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Social Equity Leadership Conference on June 10, 2022. NAPA will post a video of the presentation, but in the meantime my slides are at social-equity-leadership-conference-.pdf
Thank you to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for publishing a blog post about our research on Independent Demonstration Projects. https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/independent-demonstration-projects-a-bottom-up-strategy-for-innovation/
If you’re a Public Administration practitioner, consider presenting at NECOPA 2022. Have a case from your work that others could learn from? Technique you developed or tried out? I’m available to bounce ideas off. I’ve presented at NECOPA. The call for proposals is at https://northeastpublicadmin.org/
Public sector workers are part of the web of checks and balances in democracy. Public administration schools are already teaching the ethics of whether and when public sector workers should act as checks and balances, but very little about how to fulfill this role. Case studies and several streams of public administration research provide a basis for teaching future public sector workers how to be effective as democratic checks and balances.
Our new working paper about this is on SocArXiv at https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/hy32x/
Are you looking for sessions about innovation at the ASPA 2022 national conference? I started a list. If you’re presenting a paper about innovation, then please add it. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v8RdUWd5QlttrXLHD9hQLKCdE5Z06P7h6CnVrtry-VQ/edit?usp=sharing
I have developed a teaching case about Independent Demonstration Projects, which is a successful strategy to implement innovations in government without prior approval of agency officials. The case is currently pending peer review for publication. I would be pleased to send a copy of the draft case materials to any faculty member who wants to examine it for possible use in their teaching. I can be reached at David.Reed@PubAdmin.org
I am honored to be appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal Public Integrity. I look forward to helping to continue the high quality of that journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=mpin20
A new paper in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management by S. Jimmy Gandhi, Colleen C. Robb and Ana Lee examines how entrepreneurial competencies can be used to encourage intrapreneurship in organizations. They cite my work on public sector workers using effectuation to implement innovations. Their new paper is at https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=115049
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