A new paper co-authored by AU School of Public Affairs Associate Professor Joe Young looks at how governments react to terrorist attacks on civilians — with conciliatory actions or counterattacks — and what kind of response that elicits from insurgents.
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A new paper from SPA Assistant Professor Carla Flink shows that as public managers decide how to allocate funds, performance is a key consideration. Budgets can rise and fall based on how well an organization is delivering on its promises.
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Betsy Fischer Martin to lead AU SPA's Women & Politics Institute
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SPA prof. and project director Lara Schwartz talks civility, truth, and consequences.
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Sixty new AU School of Public Affairs graduate students and faculty volunteered to spend the day sorting household items and moving furniture at A Wider Circle.
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Meghan Ballard (SPA/JLC ’18) has worked on antitrust criminal cases and is now a civil rights paralegal specialist. Ready for a new challenge, Ballard enrolled in SPA’s Justice, Law & Criminology graduate program with a concentration in public policy.
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There are about 200 presidential sites around the country — birthplaces, childhood homes, museums, and libraries. Two SPA faculty members joined representatives from many of those sites this week for the Presidential Sites Summit.
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Two SPA faculty members and two graduate students embarked on a research project to shed light on how nursing homes serve racially and ethnically diverse residents.
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Managers who consider diversity and hire employees skilled in caring for diverse clientele have better facilities with fewer regulatory violations, according to a paper to be published in Public Administration Review by four SPA authors.
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