(This is the submitted version of an article that was subsequently published in Public Administration Review.) Public Administration journals should publish two types of professional literature that are not research: * Case Reports - As in medical journals, a description by a practitioner of a...

While Wi-Fi has enjoyed explosive growth and deployment for use in residential homes, the rollout of commercial Wi-Fi service has been more limited. Part of the holdback on large-scale commercial deployment has been the strategic concern that the commons model to spectrum management lacks the...

The Department of Labor (DOL) has a process to grant administrative exemptions for individual retirement account (IRA) transactions that would otherwise be prohibited by law, such as an IRA buying investment property from the IRA owner. DOL evaluates applications using statutory criteria and...

This paper examines the question of whether the local access network environment stands on the cusp of significant change, one characterized by investment in new Gigabit broadband networks operated by a new breed of service providers. The highprofile Google Fiber project first deployed in the...

The public administration profession could reduce barriers to research by practitioners by developing norms that establish the legitimacy of practitioners engaging in research related to their practice, as well as norms that address the issues particular to practitioners in withholding certain...

Bearfield, Maranto and Wolf (2020) advise policy-makers to measure policing outcomes using a metric that includes rates of homicide, police-related civilian deaths (PRCD) , and poverty. They present such an index, which they call the Police Performance Index (PPI). But alternative functional...

Practitioners who present at public administration academic conferences can build professional relationships, sharpen their thinking, get referrals to people, research and techniques, strengthening their resumes, and advance the state of the art. Practitioners can present real-world experience...

Over the past 50 years the network economics of cable networks have had a profound impact upon the diversity of information available to modern society in the form of video and broadband content. Cost-effective one-way transport increased the diversity of television channels to several hundred...

The FCC issued a Public Notice on May 5th, 2015 asking for comments on current trends in LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U) and License Assisted Access (LAA) technology. LTE-U/LAA is a method for cell carriers to pair unlicensed spectrum with licensed spectrum to complement and improve signal strength for...