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Best paper, PAQ 2022

Congratulations to Barbara Patrick and Aaron C. Rollins on the selection of their paper, "Delivering Culturally Competent and Equitable Police Services Via Social Media: Assessing Two Way Dialogue between Police Agencies and Vulnerable Citizens" as the best paper published by PAQ in 2022. We are pleased to make this scholarship freely available here.

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call for papers: nonprofit management for social change

ASPA's Section on Nonprofit Management has issued a call for papers for a symposium to explore how nonprofit and philanthropic research and practice might embrace its interdisciplinarity by developing theories and methodological approaches to challenge traditional ways of understanding and address wicked problems facing communities today. We invite you to submit original manuscripts on methodological approaches to nonprofit and philanthropic studies that embrace interdisciplinarity in a number of ways. Please see the attached for more details.

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Public Administration Quarterly (PAQ) publishes articles and symposia of interest to academics and practitioners across the fields of public administration and public affairs. An independent publication since its genesis in 1977 as the Southern Review of Public Administration, PAQ is committed to the use of the blind-review process.

ISSN:0734-9149
ISSN Online: 2327-4433

Affiliated with:
Southeast Conference for Public Administration
ASPA's Section on Professional and Organizational Development

Editor: Aaron Wachhaus, University of Baltimore
Email: paq@spaef.org
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Current Issue

Vol. 47, No. 2
Symposium on Special District Management

Introduction: Symposium on Special District Management
by Alexander C. Henderson and Christopher Goodman

Who Benefits from Special District Service Delivery?: Water Affordability in the United States
by Robin Rose Saywitz and David Switzer

The Money Behind the Curtain: Measuring the Financial Condition of Special District Governments in Illinois
by Andrew Crosby, Gina Scutelnicu Todoran and Polina Polskaia

Copy Once or Twice? Isomorphic Pressures and Special District Fiscal Reserves
by Peter A. Jones and Vincent Reitano

Examining The "Specialness" of Cultural Districts
by Leigh Nanney Hersey and B. Kathleen Gallagher

single article: New South Wales State Government Failure? An Empirical Analysis of the Cootamundra Gundagai Regional Council Forced Merger
by Brian Dollery and Joseph Drew

single article: Creating Cohesive Volunteer Groups: The Role of Group Identification in Volunteer Fire Services
by Alexander C. Henderson and Jessica Sowa

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