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Nov 30, 2020

The efficacy of government is often only the domain of niche audiences, but the failure of government to address a massive public health crisis over the last year have brought back cries for effective government. Perhaps the management failures could prompt a review of how to make government operate more efficiently and...


Nov 25, 2020

When President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order creating the Schedule F classification, public administration experts and employee groups worried that agencies would throw a high percentage of employees into that designation in order to strip civil service protections of those employees. According to reports this...


Nov 24, 2020

With over 250,000 American deaths from COVID-19, 12 million cases and an uptick in travel due to the Thanksgiving holiday this week, the novel coronavirus pandemic has shown no signs of letting up. With promising vaccine news coming out recently, both the outgoing Trump administration and the incoming Biden...


Nov 23, 2020

In the 1960s, the United States Congress implemented a system to “to provide transition support to the winning candidates well before absolute certainty is reached by the Electoral College [in] December.” The Presidential Transition Act, by all accounts, exists to give the incoming administration ample time and...


Nov 20, 2020

There are usually around 75 days between the November election and the January inauguration during each presidential election year. In those 75 days, if a new administration is elected, the transition period is a dash to get the incoming people up-to-speed and the peaceful transfer of power done.If that doesn’t sound...