CoLPS: Public Administration

Largest and most prominent professional association for public administration. Presents the Organizational Leadership Award for outstanding culture change, sustained improvements, and demonstrated positive effects on government performance and accountability.

Membership organization that features conferences, professional development, news and publications.

Find publications in English and other languages from this European Union supported organization.

A professional organization devoted to local government issues, professional ethics and priorities.

Provides a forum for sharing ideas, concepts and results of research and practice in the field of public management, and to stimulate critical thinking about alternative approaches to problem solving and decision making in the public sector.

The President’s Joint Address to Congress focused on topics including immigration, health care, and infrastructure. We’ve annotated the full script of the President’s speech with lists of our related materials. See a selection of related titles below, and read our complete guide at Notes from NAP.

Independent government organization that supports public administrators in government. Resources include Congressional Testimony and Key Reports, along with current studies and projects.

An organization that leads proactive efforts to make the federal government more effective.

A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. Research includes K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, teachers and teaching, higher education, military education and training, worker training, and substance-abuse prevention in schools.

The U. S. Government’s main gateway to information, resources, reports, data, and tools.

Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a variety of information to help you evaluate public policies on healthcare, retirement benefits, the minimum wage, workforce education and training, economic development, workplace safety, monetary policy, consumer spending, and other topics that affect the well-being of American workers, retirees, and their families.

USAspending.gov is the publicly accessible, searchable website mandated by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to give the American public access to information on how their tax dollars are spent.