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INSIDE: AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION VOL. 29 NO. 7 JULY 2006 PA TIMES SPECIAL SECTION PROTECTING PEOPLE AND PROPERTY IN THE 21ST CENTURY PA TIMES Are We Doing Enough, Fast A Powerful Voice for Public Service . Enough? 3 29 Years • 1977-2006 It has been 32 years since Christopher D. Stone wrote his work “Should Trees Have Standing?” As we continue to struggle with 22 States Join National environmental degradation and resource depletion, the ownership, management and rights of nature and natural resources continues to be a highly charged issue.–Deniz Health Information Collaboration Leuenberger Protecting People and Parks: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design 4 Agreements Pending with Additional 12 States, U.S. Territories Crimes like theft, assaults, graffiti and vandalism represent serious Research Triangle Park, NC–RTI expected to sign agreements soon. clinical health information exchange, threats to the safety and positive International announced today that 22 states develop best practices and propose solutions The privacy and security project is a perceptions of the community. The have signed agreements to join a national to address identified challenges, and subsequent fear of crime itself can component of the U.S. Department of collaborative effort to address privacy and increase expertise about health information restrict people’s freedom of Health and Human Services' (HHS) strategy security policy questions affecting interoper- privacy and security protection in communi- movement and deter them from fully to identify variations in privacy and security participating in the community. able health information exchange. Twelve See COLLABORATION, pg. 2 –Steven N. Waller, Sr. additional states and U.S. territories are practices and laws affecting electronic International News 5 Insights on Strategic Mgmt. 6 Solutions for Public Managers 7 Former PAR Editor Commentary 8 Fourth of July Letters to the Editor 9 Larry Terry Dies Frederickson Perspective 11 on the National Mall Ethics Moment 12 Larry Terry, former editor of Where Things Stand 13 ASPA’s journal Public Administration Review, passed away June 17. Terry ASPA TIMES presided over ASPA’s journal during one of its most President’s Column: innovative and financially Stewardship: The Attitude that lucrative periods. Unites Us in Public Service? 16 See pages 17-18 of this These last months, we note the issue to read ASPA passing of friends and colleagues members’ tributes to Terry. who have been important to us in many ways. And, given the cycle of life, we will say goodbye to many others as time goes on. But we also have the opportunity to welcome new comers to the field and to America’s Image explore concepts new and old that inspire us in the field we love. –Wendy A. Haynes Theory vs. Practice 19 Slips Globally I have been an elected city council member for five months now and public domain photo everything still seems new to me. I Once again Washington, DC, will host Fourth of July fireworks on the National According to International have always been much more focused Mall, launched from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and lighting up the on state, national and international politics. Local issues always seemed sky over the Washington Monument . One of the most popular events of the Survey by Pew Trust so mundane and uninteresting. While year, the day also brings the annual Fourth of July Parade on Constitution they may be mundane–they are far Avenue along with the traditional live concert by the National Symphony from uninteresting. Orchestra and several pop artists performing patriotic music on the West Lawn Washington, DC–As President Bush made a surprise ASPA Commentary: of the U.S. Capitol Building. Point/Counter-Point 20-21 visit to Iraq, a new global survey showed the continuing toll the war has taken on America’s global image. The Section News 22 Above: 4th of July fireworks on the National Mall, view from the Martin Building United States’ global image has slipped again, even as Chapter News 23 (Federal Reserve). Americans and publics of U.S. allies express common concerns over Iran’s nuclear program and the Hamas Career Center 24-25 Party’s victory in Palestinian elections. And despite Know Your Code 26 growing worries over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, America’s presence in Iraq is cited at least as often as Recruiter 27 Fun Facts: Did you know: 150 million hot dogs (all varieties) are Iran–and in many countries much more often–as a Calendar of Events 28 expected to be consumed by Americans on this danger to world peace. holiday. (That’s one frankfurter for every two people.) The 15-Nation Pew Global Attitudes Survey, by the Pew The value of fireworks imported from China in 2005 was $201.9 million, Global Attitudes Project, conducted among nearly For more information on how to be PA TIMES representing the bulk of all U.S. fireworks imported ($211 million). U.S. 17,000 people in the United States and 14 other nations published in , please contact Christine Jewett McCrehin at exports of fireworks, by comparison, came to just $14.9 million in 2005, from March 31-May 14, finds: [email protected]. with Australia purchasing more than any other country ($4.4 million) See AMERICA’S IMAGE, pg. 2 PAGE 2 PA TIMES • JULY 2006 American Society for Public Administration Several States Paricipate in Health Information Network From COLLABORATION, pg. 1 Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming. security and privacy of health care informa- analyze solutions by fall 2006, completing tion vary considerably nationwide,” said the project by March 2007. At that time, Twelve additional states and U.S. territories Linda Dimitropoulos, RTI's project director. representatives from each region will ties. also have been invited to join the project. “This collaborative effort among experts discuss implementation plans that will States and territories selected to partici- The project, being managed by RTI in will help us work through the myriad allow electronic sharing of health pate are charged with bringing together a cooperation with the National Governors security and privacy issues so that policy information across states and territories. makers at the state and federal levels can broad range of stakeholders to develop Association under contract to HHS, is a The governors of all 55 U.S. states and begin to address the concerns that will consensus-based solutions to problematic public-private collaboration that seeks to territories were invited to submit proposals allow Americans to benefit from improved variations in privacy and security business reduce variations in business policies and to participate in the privacy and security sharing of health care information.” policies, practices and state laws. state laws related to the privacy and project. The subcontracts were awarded as security of health information. RTI is To make it possible to fund all proposals part of a competitive process based on an The participating states include: Alaska, working with the Agency for Healthcare with technical merit, the ONC will add evaluation of proposals against technical Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Research and Quality and the Office of $5.73 million to the existing contract, and cost criteria and the ability to meet the Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, the National Coordinator for Health IT at bringing its total value to $17.23 million. requirements of the project. Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North HHS (ONC). Carolina, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, The participating states and territories will Rhode Island, Utah, Washington, “Current policies and laws governing the finish state-level interim assessments and Survey Measures Global Attitudes From AMERICA’S IMAGE, pg. 1 • Divisions between the West and Muslim nations are even wider in opinions of the Hamas Party’s victory in Palestinian • Positive views of the United States have elections. On balance, Americans and declined sharply in Spain (from 41 Western Europeans–except for the percent to 23 percent), India (71 percent British–feel the Hamas victory is bad for Want to subscribe to to 56 percent), and Turkey (23 percent to the Palestinian people. Muslim publics 12 percent). Even in Indonesia, where generally disagree. PA TIMES? U.S. tsunami aid helped lift America’s image in 2005, favorable opinions of the • Majorities in 10 of 14 foreign countries U.S. have fallen (from 38 percent to 30 surveyed say the war in Iraq has made percent). the world a more dangerous place. In Great Britain, 60 percent say the war has • Support for the U.S.-led war on terror, made the world more dangerous, with few exceptions, is either flat or has compared with 30 percent who say it has declined; confidence in President Bush has made the world safer. fallen ever lower in Europe; and majorities in most countries believe that the U.S. will • The bird flu disease has attracted not achieve its objectives in Iraq. overwhelming interest in every country surveyed. But for the most part, concerns • Americans and Western publics are over the bird flu are limited to Asia. increasingly concerned over Iran. Click on PAR/PA TIMES Nearly half of Americans (46 percent) • Global warming concerns are widespread view the current government in Iran as in India and Japan–roughly two-thirds www.aspanet.org a “great danger” to stability in the in each country say they worry a great Middle East and to world peace, up deal about global warming. But in the U.S. from 26 percent in 2003. In Germany, and China, only about one-in-five say they Spain, France and Great Britain, the worry a great deal about global . percentage of people who see Iran as a great danger has roughly tripled For more information visit the Pew Global compared with three years ago. But Attitudes Project website at Muslim publics are far less alarmed by http://pewglobal.org/.