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Does Gen-AI have a role in public affairs education? Let’s ask ChatGPT Gen-AI 在公共事务教育中能发挥作用吗？让我们问问 ChatGPT

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241279361

Daniel Baracskay

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Minding the gap between public administration curriculum and practice: The studio of public reasoning 关注公共行政课程与实践之间的差距：公共推理工作室

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241279204

Savaş Zafer Şahin

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Book Review: Trump and the bureaucrats: The fate of neutral competence 书评特朗普与官僚：中立能力的命运

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241270760

Jessica Velasco

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Assessing the integration of AI competencies in undergraduate public administration curricula in selected South African higher education institutions 评估南非部分高等教育机构将人工智能能力纳入公共管理本科课程的情况

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241266443

Tinaye Des Kamukapa, Stellah Lubinga, Tyanai Masiya, Lerato Sono

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Training and retraining civil servants in Vietnam 越南公务员的培训和再培训

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241267221

Ngo Sy Trung

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Teaching policy capacity: A collaborative and constructivist workshop 政策能力教学：合作与建构主义研讨会

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-05-18 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241230150

Bobby Thomas Cameron

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Experiential learning in the master of public administration classroom: An application of the family-friendly campus toolkit 公共管理硕士课堂的体验式学习：家庭友好型校园工具包的应用

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241252345

Cecilia Idika-Kalu, Aaron Smith-Walter, Jenna Vinson

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A worthy investment? Investigating alumni perceptions of nonprofit degrees 值得投资吗？调查校友对非营利学位的看法

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241241434

Jo’ann Melville-Holder, Amanda J Stewart, Kerry Kuenzi, Marlene Walk, Dylan Russell, Shannon McGovern

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A review of women, power, and rape culture: The politics and policy of under-representation 回顾妇女、权力和强奸文化：代表性不足的政治与政策

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241239514

Amber Overholser

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Unveiling the duality: Visiting the big questions of public administration education through qualitative insights from Türkiye 揭开二元性的面纱：通过土耳其的定性分析探究公共行政教育的重大问题

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1177/01447394241239495

Volkan Göçoğlu, İpek Didem Göçoğlu, Atahan Demirkol

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