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Philip Joyce

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Philip Joyce is a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He formerly served as a professor of public policy and public administration at George Washington University, where he also directed the Ph.D. program in public policy and administration. His teaching and research interests include public budgeting, the congressional budget process, performance measurement and intergovernmental relations. He is the author of The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policy Making.

While transparency may promote government accountability and reduce corruption, rules to improve openness in government also can have negative consequences.
Just about everyone agrees that performance budgeting is good for government. But making it work in practice is tricky.
Formal codes of ethics are worthwhile, but there is a lot more that can be done, both in government and in schools of public administration.
Scandals over falsified performance data compromise efforts for greater accountability. But there are lessons to be learned.
The current Congress has imposed few of these costly requirements. But it may be premature for state, local and tribal governments to stop worrying.
A new book about Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft has much to tell us about the challenges facing governments today.
Recent security problems involving contractors suggest that we need to rethink what government services should be performed by the private sector.
The gap between the rhetoric and the reality of sequestration is an opportunity for Washington to follow in the footsteps of state and local governments by rethinking how services are delivered.
States and localities are emerging from the Great Recession to face a "new normal" of scarcity. How will managers deal with it?