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Governments have long turned to volunteers to help provide public services. From volunteers on citizen advisory boards to park clean-ups to restocking books in libraries, government agencies rely o...

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The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...

Museums remain among the few places where curiosity still draws people across political and cultural lines. Can they model how people might think and listen together?

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...

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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...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA-07), Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06) and Congressman Don Bacon (R-NE-02) introduced the Protect National Service Act, which would pr...

Public opinion features prominently in policy research because it sets bounds on the definition of policy problems and acceptable policy solutions. We contend that public opinion is also important fo...

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Preserving public data

When ideological targeting becomes cronyism

18F was the US government’s in-house technology consultancy, lauded for saving taxpayer money and improving services. Here’s what it did − and what’s now lost.

With growing polarization and declining civic participation, what promotes engagement? Research finds both public service motivation (PSM) and sense of community responsibility (SOCR) correspond to...

As part of a flurry of measures after returning to the White House, President Trump issued executive orders and memos which affect the federal workforce. Jaclyn Piatak writes that these measures, w…

Volunteers play a critical role in serving communities and delivering public services. Volunteers serve across many areas — in schools, human service

Pro-immigration reforms face an uphill battle not because public opinion is against it, but because supporters often see the issue as less important. In new research, Alexander Kustov shows how pro…

The position will include teaching the University’s Foundations of American Democracy course for the University’s General Education Requirement and other classes in the instructor’s expertise. The tea...

Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - A Republic If You Can Afford It

The Public Administration Director will lead the Department’s NASPAA-accredited and nationally ranked Gerald G. Fox Master in Public Administration Program (reaccredited until 2028). The director duti...

The Public Administration Director will lead the Department’s NASPAA-accredited and nationally ranked Gerald G. Fox Master in Public Administration Program (reaccredited until 2028). The director duti...

While art should be for everyone, public institutions like museums are not always inclusive to all members of society. Arts participation varies by sociodemographic characteristics despite the numero...

Does the public hold government to a higher standard than private for-profit and nonprofit organizations? Building upon behavioral public administration work on blame attribution, we also examine t...