Michael R. Ford
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A Role for Government in Collective Impact Initiatives. PA Times. December 4, 2023.
Searching for Accountability in a Complex Organizational Failure. PA Times. November 6, 2023.
Naively Optimistic Thoughts on Budgeting. PA Times. October 9, 2023.
Mitigating and Learning from School Failures in School Choice Programs. PA Times. September 6, 2023.
The Future of Practitioner-Focused MPA Programs. PA Times. August 7, 2023.
Rethinking MPA Curriculum to Match Local Government Needs. PA Times. July 10, 2023.
Has the Term Equity Lost all Practical Meaning? PA Times. June 5, 2023.
Rethinking School Board Interest Groups. PA Times. May 8, 2023.
Free Speech and Social Equity: Branches of the Same Tree. PA Times. April 10, 2023.
Challenges to Creating a Culture of Philanthropy in MPA Programs. PA Times. March 6, 2023.
The Toxic Impact of Culture Wars on Policy. PA Times. February 6, 2023.
The Big Questions Facing PA in 2023. PA Times. December 16, 2022.
From the Politics of Governing to the Politics of Winning. PA Times. November 18, 2022.
What is so Scary about Equity? PA Times. October 21, 2022.
The Huge Challenges Facing the Local Government Workforce. PA Times. September 16, 2022.
Making the Most of Federal ARPA Funds. PA Times. August 18, 2022.
Meeting the Collective Impact Data Challenge. PA Times. July 15, 2022.
Moving Past the Culture Wars. PA Times. June 17, 2022.
Now More than Ever We Need Local Government to Show the Way. PA Times. May 20, 2022.
Seeing your Professional Weaknesses as Strength. PA Times. April 14, 2022.
Moving Beyond Civility. PA Times. March 17, 2022.
Searching for the Common Good. PA Times. February 17, 2022.
The Politicization of Administrative Concepts. PA Times. January 19, 2022.
School Boards Matter. PA Times. December 18, 2021.
Making Sense of Wisconsin’s Absurd Election Investigation. PA Times. October 19, 2021.
The Challenge of the City Manager: Being a Rational Actor in an Irrational Time. PA Times. September 21, 2021.
Why School Board Elections Should Stay Non-Partisan. PA Times. August 25, 2021.
The Problem with Governance by Gesture. PA Times, July 21, 2021.
Pushing Back Against Democratic Decline. PA Times, June 22, 2021.
Learning From Our Herd Immunity Failure. PA Times, May 24, 2021.
A Post-COVID Research Agenda. PA Times, April 19, 2021.
Much Ado About Masks. PA Times, March 22, 2021.
Is the Council-Manager Form of Government the Right Form of Government? PA Times, February 23, 2021.
Making Accountability Actionable. PA Times, January 20, 2021.
Reflecting on 2021 and Looking Ahead to a Challenging 2021. PA Times, December 12, 2020.
The Big Questions Facing Public Administration in 2020. PA Times, January 11, 2020.
Chaos and Confusion: The Erosion of Administrative Capacity in Wisconsin. PA Times. September, 2019.
Combatting Conspiratorial Thinking. PA Times. April, 2019.
Understanding Public Administration Through the Concept of Failure. PA Times. March, 2019.
Improving Public Administration Conferences. PA Times. February, 2019.
Comfort with Ambiguity: Why it Matters and Ways to Teach it. PA Times. December 10, 2018.
Facts Matter, and We Can Show our Students Exactly How. PA Times. November 5, 2018.
Understanding Governance Through Perceptions. PA Times. October 8, 2018.
From Trump to Minnowbrook: Navigating Current Issues in PA. PA Times. September 10, 2018.
Lessons in Performance Management from Wisconsin. PA Times. August 6, 2018.
Is American Public Administration in Decline? PA Times. August, 2018.
Leveraging Media, Social and Otherwise to Connect Public Administration Research to Practice. PA Times. June, 2018.
The Value Research of Research in Practitioner-Focused MPA Programs. PA Times. April 9, 2018.
The Practical Challenge of Doing What Works. PA Times. March 5, 2018.
Lessons from the Government Shutdown. PA Times. February 4, 2018.
The Big Questions Facing Public Administration in 2018. PA Times. January 8, 2018.
The Makings of a Good Municipal Budget Document. PA Times. December 12, 2017.
In Defense of Democratic Governance. PA Times. November 13, 2017.
Recommitting to Public Service Values in Troubled Times. PA Times. October 30, 2017.
Making the Most of Undergraduate Public Administration. PA Times. September 29, 2017.
The Importance of Studying Small Municipalities. PA Times. August, 2017.
The Challenge of Linking Governance to Performance. PA Times. May 20, 2016.
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