Preparing Public Administration Graduates: Enhancing Public Speaking Competence

Human experimental anxiety: actual public speaking induces more intense physiological responses than simulated public speaking.

OBJECTIVES a) To perform a systematic and meta-analytic review to verify whether the Simulated Public Speaking Task (SPST) leads to a greater increase in self-rated anxiety than in physiological correlates of anxiety; and b) to compare the results obtained with the SPST with an actual public speaking task involving healthy volunteers. METHODS a) The PubMed and ISI Web of Knowledge databases w...

Ethics in Public Administration

The modern world has seen an increase in interest in the areas related to the ethics of the sovereign good. A number of studies have focused on this subject matter and several academicians have exposed a number of ethical and philosophical dilemmas related to the concept of ethics in public administration. Despite the increasing number of studies that have focused on the importance of administr...

Modelling Public Administration Portals

Portals for the public administration (PA) are Internet gateways leading to a broad range of services, devoted to a great number of users. The offered services can potentially be all the ones offered by the PA offices. The final users involved are potentially all the citizens, thus ranging from young people to retired ones, to impaired ones. The benefits offered by putting PA services on the In...

Insights – Public Administration

Preparing a Public Database of Radio Sources

We have collected the largest existing set of radio source lists in machine-readable form : 320 tables with 1.75 million records. Only a minor fraction of these is accessible via public databases. We describe our plans to make this huge amount of heterogeneous data accessible in a homogeneous way via the World Wide Web, with reliable cross-identifications, and searchable by various observables....