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.

Dean Mitchel Wallerstein announced today that Professor Grant Reeher has been named the new director of the Maxwell School’s Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

Danny Hayes has a new paper published in the American Journal of Political Science. The article shows that voters who are redistricted into new congressional districts are significantly less likely to vote in the subsequent U.S. House election.