Filling a Vacuum: Subnational Governance amid National Government Inaction
Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Pragmatic Municipalism: U.S. Local Government Responses to Fiscal Stress
This blog post is a short excerpt from Public Administration Review (PAR). Access the rest of the article here. Abstract This article updates cutback management theory and challenges austerity urbanism
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Federal Grants Management: Improving Outcomes, Transparency, and Operational Quality
The text below is from the BETTER Project and can be found here. This work is a set of three publications published by the IBM Center for the Business of
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States and Localities Should Implement Equity Compliance Measures
Few republics in the history of human civilization have ever come so close and fallen so far from the ideal of “liberty and justice for all” as the United States.
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Federalism in Action- Understanding the Intergovernmental Dimensions of the COVID-19 Response and Their Consequences
The response to the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted both strengths and weaknesses in the USA’s ability to respond to novel global infectious disease threats and, undoubtedly, will be the
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A New and Reinvigorated Research Agenda for U.S. Local Governments
Note: This is an excerpt of the article, which was originally published in the State and Local Government Review. The piece has been edited for conciseness. Two out of the
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Towards a New Federalism: Retrofitting Our Structures for the Public Good
Federalism is integral to our democracy. Our decentralized governance system—distributed across multiple layers of government—stands like a building always under construction, a constant work in progress, functioning on a usually
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Ripe for Innovation: Alternative Service Delivery in Local Government
COVID-19 has fundamentally shifted the way local governments have approached service delivery, likely creating impacts that will endure long after we have administered the last vaccine. The financial strain and
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American Federalism and the Environment
To a degree unprecedented in recent American history, the environment, especially but not limited to climate change, has moved to the front rank of our public policy concerns. Even more
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Improving the Federal Grants Process: The Role of the New Grants Quality Service Management Office
April 12, 2021
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In a typical year, the federal government provides over $700 billion in grants to other levels of government, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations that provide critical services to individuals and families. The
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Two Models for Successful Intergovernmental Data Sharing
The COVID-19 crisis has drawn increased attention to government data, and to the ability to quickly link important data sets across diverse sources. Certainly, there have been some disappointments in
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