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At the invitation of American Society of Public Administration President Maria Aristigueta, associate director of UD’s School of Public Policy, Secretary Landgraf joined a super panel at the society’s annual conference in Seattle to discuss “Trust and the Perception of Government.”
The panel, which was moderated by professor Aristigueta, also included Geert Bouckaert, director of the Public Governance Institute and a professor from Belgium; Stefanie Lindquist, dean of the School of Public & International Affairs at the University of Georgia; and Allan Rosenbaum, director of the Institute for Public Management and Community Service at Florida International University.
After the academics discussed their findings that the public’s trust in government has diminished substantially, according to Lindquist’s research; that leaders are not called into account when they mislead, according to Rosenbaum; and that Sweden has the highest level of public trust in Europe and Greece has the lowest, according to Geert, Secretary Landgraf talked about the practicalities of being a government official in today’s world.
Secretary Landgraf said she came from an unusual position because she was an advocate and an activist before she was appointed Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services. She said that background gives her “an insight into the needs of the people” and drives her “to ensure that every dollar we spend gets a return on that investment.”
“As a government official,” she said, “we have a lot of discussions about how do we engage our public more effectively.” She said at DHSS she does by embracing a belief in ownership and continuous improvement.
She urged the people in attendance to help promote public service as a honorable profession “because we need that for our government.” Dean Lindquist said it’s important to frame the discussion of government as more agency-specific and less about government overall. And Rosenbaum said it’s time to point out what government does to build society.
Secretary Landgraf also met with the contingent from UD’s School of Public Policy at the conference, and attended a session by researchers from Rutgers on why trust is low for the government.
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The topic 'Human Perception' is what I've chosen to study in Studio Arts this year. This is made from one photograph of me, just flipped around. It's to represent the two contrasting sides of how we can be percieved. There is this feminine beauty that so many of us live up to, the stereotypical features, which is what the left side would hopefully represent. The right side is a more down-to-earth, realistic view on somebody.
"It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive"
C.W. Leadbeater
On the 28th of January 2021, Transparency International Ukraine has presented current data from one of the world’s largest studies — the Corruption Perceptions Index 2020.
After the announcement of the Index results, we have considered the reasons for the current indicators of Ukraine in the Index and have identified pitfalls that may affect the scores of our country in the future.
Read more here: bit.ly/TI_Ukraine_CPI
Photo: National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Speaker: Andrii Borovyk.