Sessions

Citizen Engagement
What is Nonprofit Sustainability?: Developing a Conceptual Model Saturday, 8 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Transforming Collaborations through Action Research Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Transforming Government Services Against All Odds Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Community/Citizen Participation Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
How is Action Learning Being Used to Develop Public Service Leaders in the US and Europe? Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Community-based Policy and Management Collaboration as a Paradox: A Case Study Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
The Underlying Typology of Municipal Expenditures: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Nonprofits (But Were Afraid to Ask) Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Tools for Participation Sunday, 9 - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Community Indicators: Valuable Tools for Citizen Engagement and Results Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Transformational Public Governance in Taiwan: Reconsidering the Roles of Citizens and Bureaucrats Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Public Preferences in Transportation during an Era of High Gasoline Prices: A Look at Huntsville, Texas Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
The Bureaucracy-Democracy Tango: A Dual-source Empirical Revalidation by Structural Equation Modeling in the Israeli Public Sector Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Community Policing as an Example of New Public Service and its Implementation in Turkey Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Negotiating Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Collaboration with Citizens: Findings from Action Research in Los Angeles Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Business Improvement Districts: Mobilizing and Investing Public and Private Capital for Local Revitalization Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Engaged Citizens and Responsive Public Officials Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Participation: Revolution Recovered Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Bridges to the Past and Tunnels to the Future: Reflections on Citizen Participation Strategies in the Transformation of Governance Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Marketing-Citizen Initiatives Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Public Service Networks and Complexity
Public Service Networks, Collaboration, and Partnerships: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessments Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Complexity, Statecraft, and Civic Space Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Women as Crisis Managers: The Need to Consider Crisis Management from a Gender Perspective Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Complex Adaptive Systems, Network Analysis, and Organizational Survival Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Shaping an Unscripted Future: The Emergence of Transformational Public Service and Global Citizenship Sunday, 9 - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
New Theories and New Techniques: The Development of Complexity Theory, Network Theory, Collaboration Management, Adaptive Management, Experimental Economics and Computable Simulation Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Networks in Public Policy & Administration Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Public Administration for the Next Generation: Networks, Collaboration, and Loyalties Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Public Service Networks and Collaboration in East Asia Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Demographics, Human Capital and Workforce Development in PS
Emergent Issues in Human Capital and Management in US Local Law Enforcement Friday, 7 - 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Affirmative Action and Social Equity: The Challenges of 'Fitting In' the 21st Century Workplace Saturday, 8 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Taking a Closer Look at Wage Equity: Can the Public Sector Still be Regarded as a "Model Employer"? Saturday, 8 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Trains on a Collision Course: The Local Government Employee and Their Retirement Health Care Benefits Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Succession Planning and Talent Development Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Gender Inequities in Portuguese State Administration: Figures, Representations and Practices Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
The Centralization/Decentralization Paradox in Civil Service Reform: How Government Structure Affects Training of Civil Servants Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Examining the Personal Characteristics and Career Trajectories of Doctoral Graduates in Public Policy and Administration Fields Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Public Human Resource Management Reforms: Local, State, Federal and International Sunday, 9 - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Future Talent Management and Assessment Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Developing and Implementing Cultural Competency Training for Managers: Case Analysis of Two Municipal Governments Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Changing a Culture: What does it Mean? How do you do it? Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
International Comparison of Human Resource Performance Management Systems Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Human Resources in Public Administration: A Theoretical Framework Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Motivation and Job Satisfaction Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Diversity in PA in its Many Forms Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
The Environment, Globalization, Transformation of Governance
Transforming Environmental Policy Saturday, 8 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Subnational Government and Environmental Policy Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
The Functions of World Tourism Organization (WTO) Ecotourism or Ecoexploitation Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Governance Challenges in Developing Countries Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Linking Governance and Performance: ICANN as an Internet Hybrid Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Asean Regional Forum Administered Cooperative Community: Towards the Solution of the South China Sea Dispute Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Policy Issues in Environmental Justice and Maintaining a Clean Environment Sunday, 9 - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Local Government Transformations in Mexico Sunday, 9 - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Transforming Governance Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Transformation in Debris Management: Considering New Concerns as a Part of Debris Management after Disasters Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Sustainable World Cities in Developing Countries Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
International Partnering in Policy and Administration Education Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Toward Good Governance and Accountable Public Service: South Korean Experiences Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Beyond Green: Sustainability as Transformational Public Administration Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
A Public Administration Perspective on China? Development and Future Prospects Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Institution and Dynamics of Governmental Structure in Local Economic Development Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Lessons for the Environmental Negotiator: The Role of Public Servant Tuesday, 11 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Globalization Shaking our Foundations: The Resulting Transformational Policies of Economic Development, Transportation, Communication and Electric Utilities Tuesday, 11 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Ethics and Social Equity
The Recent Fiscal Reforms in Puerto Rico (2005 - 2007) and the Perception of its Effects by the Middle Classes Saturday, 8 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Managing Ethics Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Race and Ethnicity as Determinants of Privatizing State Prisons Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Transformation and Social Change in Public Administration Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Seattle's Race and Social Justice Initiative: Ending Institutional Racism in City Government Sunday, 9 - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
NASPAA Standards 2009: Transforming Education for Public Service Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
The Margins of E-Government Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Information Flow, Structuring and Presenting in a "Shoot the Messenger" Organizational Culture Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
World Cities Fighting Corruption: Designing and Implementing Local Integrity Systems Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
The Role of the Public Administrator in Promoting Social Equity Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Which Values Define Public Administration? Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Poverty and Racism Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Corruption In Bangladesh: The Role of Public Administration Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Ethical Behavior in Organizations Tuesday, 11 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations and New Service Delivery Systems
Housing and Local Government Friday, 7 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Local/State/Regional Sustainability Saturday, 8 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Teaching the American Legal System: The Incredible Perpetual Transformational Machine Saturday, 8 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Government Collaboration Decisions: Uncover the Three Competing Rationalities Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Metropolitan Government and Governance: Ensuring a Satisfactory Quality of Life for All Citizens Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management: A Teenager out in the World, but Still Learning Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Toward a Theory of Horizontal Intergovernmental Relations: Exploring Collaboration by Local Governments Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Action versus Reaction: Promoting a Neutral Space to Confront Contemporary Security Challenges in Public Service Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Professional Sports Team Ownership Alternatives and Community Development: The Case of the Memphis Redbirds Baseball Foundation Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
The Changing Face of Homeland Security, Disaster Response, and Recovery Sunday, 9 - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
The Many Expressions of Privatization Sunday, 9 - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Governance Issues in Transportation Public Private Partnerships: The Concessionaire Approach Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Public-Private Partnerships in Long-term Disaster Recovery: The Successes and Challenges of Katrina Aid Today, a Nationally Coordinated Recovery Effort Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Cooperation and Coordination: IGR at the Local Level Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Transforming Transportation Mega-Projects: The Challenges of Interconnectivity across Modes, Sectors, Jurisdictions, Organizations, and Interests Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Evolutions in Federalism and Transnationalism Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Actor-Centered Regionalism Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Processes on Municipal Business Start-up Decisions Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Finance, Budgeting, Accountability, and Performance
Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Accountability in Different Contexts Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
The Provision of Municipal Policing Services in the U.S.: A Longitudinal Review Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
The Effect of Education Level on Police Officers Job Performance in Turkey Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Is there a Performance Premium from Council-Manager Government? Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
The Effect of the Use of Multiple Debt Policy Elements on Public Authority Use and Indebtedness Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Faith-Based Initiatives: Federal Funding and Fiscal Performance Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
New Frontiers in Performance Management: What Is Next? Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Financial Management: What do State Lotteries, Purchase Cards, and Cardiac Arrests Have in Common? Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Fiscal Stress Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Measuring Performance, Managing Risk, and Promoting Accountability in Public Organizations Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
The Determination of Adopting a Separate Capital Budget: Evidence from Panel Data in Georgia Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Comparative Performance Measurement Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Performance Budgeting at the Local Level Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Public Education: Policy and Performance Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Responding to Calls for Improved Accountability, Transparency, and Performance: How Audit Offices are Helping to Transform Government Tuesday, 11 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Founders' Forum
Issues in State Government Administration Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
A New Economics for Climate Change Policy: Can We Save the Planet? Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Public Service Ethics: New Directions in Theory and Research for Challenging Times Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Tower of Babel? Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
(Re)framing Accountability Sunday, 9 - 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Lean Thinking in Government: The Potential Impact on Government Services, Government Personnel and Other Economic Sectors Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Transformation and Public Law Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Putting the Service in Public Service: Correlates and Consequences for Those Who Perform Emotion Work Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Emergency Management Post-Katrina: A Guided Discussion with ASPA's Katrina Task Force (KTF) Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Current Implications of the Work of Classical Theorists Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Public Service Transformation: Comparing Political Will and Administrative Will in Two Multi-Nation Studies Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
The Generational Effect on "Black in Blue" Experiences Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Refining the Art and Science of Stakeholder Management Tuesday, 11 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Transforming Health Care, Education and Human Services
Merit Pay in a Unionized Setting: Lessons Learned from the Ohio Hamilton County Jobs & Family Services Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Evaluating Gaps in Services: A Divided United Way Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
The Identification of a Theory-of-change for Welfare Reform: Examining the Role of Human Capital Development in Systems Transformation after Ten Years of TANF Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Health Reform, Social Justice and Popular Culture: Insights to Gain and Misperceptions to Counter! Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Public Administration and Physicians: A Necessary Alliance in the War On Terrorism Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Evaluating the Impact of an Action Learning Intervention in Human Service Settings: A Comparison of Two Agencies Serving the Mentally Challenged Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Partnership Strategies for Healthy Communities Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Religion in Prison: An Analysis of the Impact of Religious Faith/Spirituality on Inmate Behavior and Health in Two Tennessee Prisons Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
New Staff, New Program, and New Ways of Contract Development: Incubating Communities and Texas Department of State Health Services Staff with the Federally Qualified Health Center Incubator Program Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Transforming Health Care: Is Health Tourism the Next Wave? Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
An Expensive Blunder: Taking the Human Out of Human Services Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Welfare Programs: Keeping the Poor Impoverished: A Case Study of Wage Changes and Barriers to Employment for Temporary Assistance for Needy Family Choices Program Participants in Brazos County Texas Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Access to Health Care Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
European, American, and Chilean Responses to Health Benefit Provision: A Case of Convergence Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
The Impact of Hospital Competition on Hospital Technical Efficiency Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Private Places, Public Spaces: Do Differences in Quality Correctional Education Exist? Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Using 21st Century Policy to Control and Reduce Medicare Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Tuesday, 11 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Immigration and Homeland Security
Homeland Security, PA and Insights from Network Analysis Saturday, 8 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Embedded Media in the Military: The Rhetoric behind the Policy Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Transformation and Transition to Security and the Success (?) of the DHS: Phenomenological, Post Modern, and Complexity Theoretical Interpretations Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
PA & Immigration: Challenges and Adaptive Measures Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Homeland Security & PA Theory: Insightful Concepts and Frameworks Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Show Me The Money: Hurricane Katrina and Public Spending Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Homeland Security and Effective Regional Collective Action Tuesday, 11 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Transformational Leadership and Transforming the Image of PA
Trust and Transformation Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Power Sharing Patterns in Local Policy-Making Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
The Transformative Role of City Managers: Management Professional or Policy Leader? Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Transformation of the Administrative State and Bureaucracy: From Institutionalization to Globalization Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Price of Public Services Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Effects of the Hiring Process on Employee Discipline Problems in a County Sheriff’s Department Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Transformational Public Leadership: Improving Public Organizations and Communities Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Defining the Client in the Public Service Encounter: A Two-Stage Bifocal Perspective of Social Exchange and Social Interaction Theory Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
The Many Faces of Transformational Leadership Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Diversity in Local Government Personnel Decisions: A Study of the Effects of Managerial Values Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Organizational Culture, Transformational Leadership, and Organizational Performance Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Promoting Positive Relations between Facilitative Mayors and City Administrators Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Transformational Leadership and Public Service Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Transforming the Courts Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Better, Not Smaller Public Institutions Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Organizational Design and Development
An Analysis of Decision Making Factors and Styles of Mid-level Police Administrators Based on Behavioral and Judgment Theories of Decision Making Saturday, 8 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Institutional Design for Sustainable Development Administration Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
The Toughest Job: Improving First Line Supervision in EPA Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
A Seat at the Table and a Side of Power, Please. The Emergence of Women City Managers in the Late 20th Century Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Exploring Innovation Management in Local Governments Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Workforce Transformation for Strategic Advantage Monday, 10 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Lessons Learned: Client Orientation, Methodological Skepticism, and Community Relations Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Performance Management, Organizational Development and Individual Success: The Same Road or a Collision Course? Tuesday, 11 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Science, Technology and the Future of Public Service
Transformation of Service through Technology Friday, 7 - 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
How E-government Transforms the Quality of Public Services: The Citizens' Perspective Saturday, 8 - 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Wireless Governments in Wireless Cities?: Leveraging Public Private Partnerships to build "Municipal Wi-Fi" Sunday, 9 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Transforming the Way Government Works Sunday, 9 - 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
E-Government at the Local Level: Defining “Success” Monday, 10 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Legislating the Future Workforce: The Diffusion of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Policies across the States Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
The Role of University Faculty in the National Science and Technology Policy Debate Tuesday, 11 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Skills and Tools for Effective Public Service
NASPAA Accreditation Site Visitor Training Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Same Prescription and Different Effects: The Analysis of Recent Government Reform Monday, 10 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Enhancing The Teaching And Practice of Cultural Competency in Public Administration and Public Service Delivery Monday, 10 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Transforming Public Service: Cultural Competence as a Window of Opportunity Tuesday, 11 - 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM