Anthony Michael Bertelli

Public Management

  • Why teach in a Distance MPA?

    Tony Bertelli

    Starting in August, I will be teaching a distance course at the MPA (Master’s of Public Administration) level for the first time.  The School of Policy, Planning and Development is launching a new distance program this fall and my course is among the initial offerings.  The distance medium is intensely challenging for a beginner like me.…

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    Measuring Latent Concepts in Public Management

    Tony Bertelli

    I just returned from the Public Management Research Conference in Syracuse — a wonderful event.  My USC PhD students Jennifer Connolly (2nd year) and Dyana Mason (1st year) presented preliminary results from an ongoing project that develops longitudinal, survey-based, agency-level measures of concepts used widely in public management research between 1998-2010.  The project’s goal is…

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    Ideology in Federal Administrative Agencies

    Tony Bertelli

    Josh Clinton, Dave Lewis, Dave Nixon, Christian Grose and I have developed measures of bureaucratic ideology in an ongoing project that was also featured on the Monkey Cage.  The measurement strategy used agency executives’ responses to questions on the Survey on the Future of Government Service that three of us (Bertelli, Lewis, and Nixon) implemented.