Public administration

So yeah, in terms of what the research already tells us, we're essentially sort of at the intersection here of two quite separate literatures.

So there's one side of the literature which comes from the sort of tradition of public administration, which is mostly focused on the sort of performance implications of certain contracting arrangements.

So that's looked at, for example, whether delivering particular goods and services with involvement from the private sector leads to greater value for money, greater efficiency, various sort of types of technical considerations, let's say.

So there's quite a lot of research there.

Thank you, Ellie.

Thank you for having me.

This discussion was about the article "Policymakers' Preferences over Public-Private Modes of Service Delivery and Credit Claiming: Experimental Evidence" by Eleanor Woodhouse, Paolo Belardinelli, and Nathan Lee, which was recently published in Public Administration.

Of course, we'll put the details in the show notes for this episode.

Ayelet Haran is a Montclair Public Schools parent who moved to town in 2020 and is active as a school volunteer and president of the Montclair Community Farms board.

She holds a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia and brings nearly two decades of private sector experience in public policy, healthcare access, and corporate governance, with a focus on responsible and effective leadership.

Dave Moon is a Montclair High School parent and data professional who runs the analytics firm Symetric and a CFO roundtable.

He also created NJSchoolInsights.com in response to Montclair's fiscal crisis and is running on a platform centered on student achievement, financial transparency, and accountability.

Carlyle is widely viewed as the driving force, really the architect, behind Washington's climate policies, considered to be the most comprehensive, along with California, in the nation.

He has a BA from UMass and a Master's of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Reuven Carlyle joining us from Seattle.

Thanks for being with us.

One of Caleb's favorite memories growing up is spending hot summer days at Phillips Swim Club and going bowling at Western Bowl.

Caleb graduated cum laude from the University of Illinois-Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, in 2023, and is currently finishing his master's degree in public administration online at the same university.

Caleb has experience working with local groups, such as starting an organization to raise money for the Flint water crisis in 2014 called H2O for Earth, Special Olympics of Ohio and Kentucky, being a Spanish language translator for a back to school supplies drive in Lockland in 2021, and worked with members of Cincinnati City Council to rename sections of Reading Road after former President Barack Obama.

Caleb is a dues-paying union member from his time working as a barista, and he has worked all kinds of jobs in the service industry and broadcasting industry, such as being a busboy at Skyline Chili, cashier at Home Depot, and Cincinnati Reds team store associate.

A CIP tem defendido que, de facto, que o problema de Portugal não é tanto a falta de estratégias, mas sim a dificuldade de executá-las, a-- passar da ação à prática, não é? Isto é, por mais meios e recursos, é, adequados que tenhamos, pois é preciso, é preciso pô-los, é, no fundo, alinhados, é, na, na, numa boa execução.

É, olhando pra administração pública, que reforma concreta é que acha que teria hoje maior impacto na competitividade das empresas?

Porque, de facto, é, é, o que o, o, o Herman Rodrigues referiu, estou totalmente de acordo.

É que o desafio hoje em Portugal não é apenas económico, é claramente institucional.

...pensam em várias outras alternativas.

Portanto, é, é realista, é necessário.

É, se as empresas se conseguem adaptar a regras exigentes, é, a administração pública também tem que o conseguir fazer, tem que o fazer, tem que o conseguir fazer e tem que se conseguir criar as condições pra isso.

E hoje as condições de suporte pra isso são tremendamente mais favoráveis do que há quatro anos atrás ou cinco, e até do que há dois anos atrás.

And, and for me, that was always in me and I'm like, "Okay, great, I've learned all these amazing skills.

I really am doing..." But I need something more, which, which, which parlayed me to a, a master's in public administration because I thought, well, maybe I need to get into the non-profit space or maybe I need to get into the government space to make bigger, you know, bigger s- systemic change, or maybe I need to get into, right, the, the, the more local level change and, and let me find what my passion is.

And so that's really what catapulted me into that arena.

And from there, and I was still with GAP, by the way.

In Australia, most national parks are managed by the state government, aside from six Commonwealth parks that are run by the federal government, including Kakadu.

UNSW Senior Lecturer in Public Sector Management Dr Megan Evans doesn't believe parks like the Great Koala National Park should have to fund themselves.

I just find it extraordinary that we are having a discussion about how do we actually incentivize government from doing something that is actually their job.

We actually have to go, oh, no, the state government can't possibly do their job.