Soonhee Kim is this year’s recipient of the Julia B. Henderson Award.  This Award given by ASPA’s Section on Women in Public Administration honors a woman who has demonstrated her commitment to international public administration in particular or to international public service in general by a lifetime of public service, to careers in international public administration and public service.

Congratulations Soonhee!

Danny Hayes has a new paper coming out in the January issue of American Politics Research. The paper, coauthored with Mathieu Turgeon, examines how candidate polarization—the growing ideological divide between Republican and Democratic politicians—affects the way voters process information and make their choices during campaigns. Our findings suggest that increasing elite polarization may make citizens more resolute in their preferences and more resistant to new information that challenges their existing beliefs.

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget recently issued a policy memorandum on how federal agencies are to undertake human resource planning for their contracting and acquisition workforce.  The plan cites a paper co-written by David M. Van Slyke of The Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Trevor Brown, associate director for Academic Affairs and Research at the Glenn School and Matthew Potoski of Iowa State University.  The paper Managing Public Service Contracts: Aligning Values, Institutions, and Markets was published in 2006. For memorandum.

In an opinion piece written by Grant Reeher and Tina Nabatchi in the Post Standard, the authors discuss the results of a survey they used to assess the results of the recent CNYSpeaks mayoral forum. For more information on the project, see cnyspeaks.com. Read more.