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Pang, Min-Seok – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In this dissertation, I study the performance impact of information technology (IT) investments in the public sector. IT has been one of the key assets in public administration since the early MIS era. Even though the information systems (IS) discipline has witnessed a considerable amount of research efforts on the subject of IT business value for…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Information Technology, Public Administration, Innovation
Cerda Suarez, Luis Manuel; Hernandez, Wilmar – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
In the last decade, many changes have taken place in the field of university education. Professional practice demands that future graduates design and market products, preserve the interests of their clients, take responsibilities in public administration or participate in politics. Universities must educate professionals so that they become…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Styles
Cardoso, Sonia; Carvalho, Teresa; Santiago, Rui – European Journal of Education, 2011
A progressive attempt to replace traditional public administration values and concepts by others that are closer to private management can be observed in the replacement of the service user concept by that of consumer or client. This redefinition's more implicit or explicit intent is to increase consumers'/clients' status, their capacity to choose…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Public Administration
Norman, A. S.; Mdegella, O. M.; Lubawa, R. M. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
This paper provides a discussion on the evolution of elections management in Tanzania with a focus on technological advancement in administering registration of voters. The paper provides the merits that permanent voters register has brought over the thumb practice. It traces the management of elections during colonialism, after independence…
Descriptors: Democracy, Elections, Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement
Chen, Baiyun; Bryer, Thomas – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
Despite the high popularity of personal use of online social media, a low percentage of students and instructors use them for educational purposes. This qualitative study explores the use of social media among faculty in the discipline of public administration in the United States. Eight instructors participated in telephone interviews about their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Technologies, Informal Education
O'Donnell, Julie; Kirkner, Sandra L. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2009
This article investigates the perceived quality and skill outcomes of Title IV-E MSW training programs at four universities from the perspective of their graduates. It also sought to identify necessary program supports, expectations of graduates as they began child welfare employment, and pre-employment factors related to retention. The vast…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Program Evaluation, Graduate Surveys, Outcomes of Education
Faokunla, Olumide Adegboyega – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The problem with the study of the concept of electronic government (e-Gov) is that scholars in the field have not adequately explored various dimensions of the concept. Literature on e-Gov is replete with works on the form of government to consumer e-Gov. Much less work had been done on the government to government (G2G) e-Gov. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Programs, Public Policy, Case Studies
Balthasar, Andreas – Evaluation Review, 2009
Growing interest in the institutionalization of evaluation in the public administration raises the question as to which institutional arrangement offers optimal conditions for the utilization of evaluations. "Institutional arrangement" denotes the formal organization of processes and competencies, together with procedural rules, that are…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Federal Government, Public Administration, Models
Camm, Frank; Stecher, Brian M. – RAND Corporation, 2010
Empirical evidence of the effects of performance-based public management is scarce. This report describes a framework used to organize available empirical information on one form of performance-based management, a performance-based accountability system (PBAS). Such a system identifies individuals or organizations that must change their behavior…
Descriptors: Accountability, Performance, Public Administration, Child Care
Wigfall, Patricia Moss; Hall, Paula Quick – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
This paper focuses on the role of gender in faculty choice of teaching methodologies at colleges and universities in North Carolina. We replicate research conducted by Hartlaub and Lancaster who examined pedagogical preference among a national sample of political science instructors. In revisiting that inquiry, published in 2008, we have explored…
Descriptors: Political Science, Research Methodology, Public Administration, Public Policy
Davis, Girte Leah – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examined the performance outcomes of public management networks (PMNs) in the disaster management context. The effectiveness of three disaster response sub-networks in the area of evacuation were examined and compared using the case of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 2005: Citizen Protection:…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters, Weather
Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
In this article, the authors summarize their 15 years of research on graduate education in economics in the United States. They examine all stages of the process, from the undergraduate origins of eventual economics PhDs to their attrition and time-to-degree outcomes. For PhD completers, the authors examine job market outcomes, research…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Economics, Educational Research, Graduate Study
Erdem, Mustafa; Aydin, Inayet; Tasdan, Murat; Akin, Ugur – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
The main purpose of this article is to assess the opinions of district governors, who are the highest ranked civilian authority within a district, on educational problems and solutions at the local level. A qualitative research approach was utilized. The district governors believe that they have a very significant and active role in raising…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Barriers, Performance Factors
Santiago, Rui; Carvalho, Teresa – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2012
In Portugal, as elsewhere, the rhetoric of managerialism in higher education is becoming firmly entrenched in the governmental policymakers' discourse and has been widely disseminated across the institutional landscape. Managerialism is an important ideological support of New Public Management policies and can be classified as a narrative of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Educational Policy
Santisteban, Hiram – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Purpose. The purpose of this research was to further an understanding of how the federal government is addressing the challenges of interoperability for emergency response or crisis management (FEMA, 2009) by informing the development of standards through the review of current congressional law, commissions, studies, executive orders, and…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Emergency Programs, Crisis Management, Standard Setting