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Capstone Projects
Redesigning Job Descriptions to Promote Stronger Performance Measurement and Management… and titles. Based on data analysis, a literature review on job descriptions, and the organizational structure, …
Video
WAGTalk: Paul Smoke, "Supporting Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries"Development assistance for strengthening government in developing countries has been criticized both as being too fragmented and too dominated by a cartel of like-minded agencies. Professor Smoke's talk reviews key issues and evidence on the …
Capstone Projects
Laying the foundation for a collective impact approach to save mothers’ and children’s lives… The Capstone team was engaged to conduct a literature review on collective impact best practices, and to provide …
Capstone Projects
The Impact of Proposed New York State Medicaid Reforms on HHC's Long-Term Care FacilitiesThe Capstone team was asked to analyze the potential impact of the New York State Medicaid reforms proposed by the Senate Medicaid Reform Task Force, the Governors Working Group on Medicaid Reform, and the Fiscal Year 2004 Executive Budget on the …
Publication
Where, When, Why, and For Whom Do Residential Contexts Matter? Moving Away from the Dichotomous Understanding of Neighborhood Effects… of individuals in heterogeneous ways. In other words, we review research that examines where, when, why, and for whom … and cognitive outcomes as an example, the research we review suggests that any attempt to reduce the literature to …
Capstone Projects
Barriers, Budgets, & Batteries: Organizational Decision Making When Adopting New TechnologiesHow does an organization decide to adopt a new technology in its field programs? Global Relief Technology, a producer of handheld data collection devices, asked the Capstone team to research the barriers for PDA adoption by emergency relief organizations. …
Faculty Profile
Ingrid Gould EllenIngrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Faculty Director at the NYU Furman Center. She is currently the President-Elect of the Association for Public Policy …
Publication
Politics Is the Issue: A Response to Robert Myers… in the 1985 issue of the periodical "Public Administration Review." Potential impact of political pressure on the social …
Capstone Projects
Care Consultants: Improving Communication and Collaboration for the Allen Hospital and its Community… in the community. The team performed a literature review on communication among providers and continuity of …
Capstone Projects
Gram Vikas: An Alternative to Community-Led Total SanitationGram Vikas is a nonprofit organization located in rural east India with a mission to promote processes which are sustainable, socially inclusive and gender equitable to enable critical masses of poor and marginalized rural people or communities to achieve …
Publication
“Waiting for the white man to change things”: Rebuilding Black poverty in New Orleans… New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. We also include a review of the recent U.S. Census study assessing New …
Capstone Projects
Building a Communication Strategy for ReliefWeb"Launched in 1996 by the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, ReliefWeb is a website that assists the international humanitarian community by delivering timely, reliable, and relevant information concerning global emergencies and …
Doctoral Student
Daniel BroidA self-proclaimed bureaucraphile, Daniel wants to understand how organizational change and innovation within the public sector can lead to better, more equitable public services. His current research looks at city-owned utilities as a way of achieving the …
Alumni In Action
Michael Patullo… new topics and interests. As editor-in-chief of The Wagner Review , I was able to explore emerging research areas and …
Alumni In Action
Becky BavingerHow would you describe your experience as a Wagner student? Smart. Experienced. Engaged. Reflective. Obviously I'm borrowing that from Assistant Dean David Schachter, but it's quite apropos. At Wagner I was smart enough to take courses that interested me …
Publication
"Where, When, Why, and for whom do Residential Contexts Matter? Moving Away From the Dichotomous Understanding of Neighborhood Effects.… of individuals in heterogeneous ways. In other words, we review research that examines where, when, why, and for whom … and cognitive outcomes as an example, the research we review suggests that any attempt to reduce the literature to …
Capstone Projects
Provider Organizations and Managed Care Reimbursements: Legal and Contractual Issues… such as time limits for payment of claims, utilization review and appeals processes, and pre-authorization issues, …
Capstone Projects
Family Engagement Project… document-based research, including an internal document review and an extensive literature review. Field work included attending ACT meetings and …
Capstone Projects
Family Engagement Project… document-based research, including an internal document review and an extensive literature review. Field work included attending ACT meetings and …
Capstone Projects
Exiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and Beyond: Assessing UMCOR-NGO’s Past Experiences to Shape the FutureThe United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) NGO division has been providing development and relief assistance in transitional areas around the world since1993. Bosnia and Herzegovina represents UMCOR’s most extended and involved country mission to …
Faculty Profile
Karin SommerKarin Sommer is the Executive Director of the Division of Transportation Planning and Management at NYC DOT, where she helps oversee the design of city streets, including the development of bicycle, pedestrian, and public space programs, the City’s Vision …
Publication
Insight from Hindsight: The New Education Finance of the Next DecadeInsight comes from hindsight. By reviewing enduring problems in education finance and policy, observing what we did right and seeing when we were surprised and why, we can identify research issues that we missed, avoid similar mistakes in the future, and …
Publication
The Relationship of Emergency Management to Governmental Policies on Man-Made Technological Disasters… are currently in place to cope with such emergencies; Review of incidents involving environmental contamination; …
Publication
Intra-District Equity in Four Large Cities: Methods, Data, and ResultsReviews the school-level resource-allocation literature and presents findings of a study of school-district expenditures in Chicago, Forth Worth, New York, and Rochester. Horizontal equity results show that in Chicago, New York, and Fort Worth, most …