Paul L. Posner 
Paul L. Posner is director of the public administration program at George Mason University and a former president of the American Society for Public Administration.
He served for many years with the U.S. Government Accountability Office, where he was managing director for federal budget and intergovernmental relations, leading GAO's work on the long-term federal budget outlook and emerging challenges for public-sector finances at all levels of government.
Posner is the author of "The Politics of Unfunded Mandates," which was published in 1998 by Georgetown University Press and was the winner of the 2008 Martha Derthick Best Book Award given by the Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Management of the American Political Science Association. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
Recent Articles
- Legislatures and Good Management: an Oxymoron Revisited
- Management reforms often seem to flounder on the shoals of legislative indifference and hostility.
- You Say You Want a Revolution
- State and local leaders are realizing how reliant they are on other sectors to meet public goals and expectations. This column discusses the implications of that reality for public managers.
- The Silent Revolution
- Governing through a diverse array of third parties can provide important advantages to public managers at all levels. It also poses daunting management and accountability challenges.
- Taking Stock of Public Programs and Priorities
- Political leaders have ample incentives to propose new ideas, but do they have equal incentives to revisit and review existing claims and programs?
- New Intergovernmental Forums Needed to Address 21st-Century Challenges
- In spite of the importance of intergovernmental collaboration, at present an effective, institutional framework does not exist to promote the necessary dialogue and partnerships across governments.
- A Politics of Foresight?
- A quick scan at the policy agenda facing federal and state officials shows a number of problems that threaten to balloon in future decades. For each of these problems, policy changes are inevitable -- the question is not whether, but when and how.
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