To Increase Trust in Government, Reinvent the Local Government Budget
This blog post is a short excerpt from the State and Local Government Review. Access the rest of the article here. This article was written by Chris Morrill.
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Filling a Vacuum: Subnational Governance amid National Government Inaction
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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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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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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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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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Federal COVID-19 Pandemic Response Illustrates Need for Better State and Local Financial Data
March 22, 2021
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The debate over COVID-19 aid for state and local government revealed a broad range of opinions that were only partially informed by the facts. Lacking complete information about the history
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The Coronavirus Relief Fund: A Review of Federal Fiscal Assistance and of Innovative County Response Strategies
March 15, 2021
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As America’s counties prepare for a historic federal investment to help mitigate the virus and aid the nation’s economic recovery through the American Rescue Plan, the National Association of Counties
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3 Keys to Getting the Federalism Conversation Going Again
DONALD F. KETTL, OCTOBER 15, 2020 The crippled response to COVID-19 is just one example of why we need to revive our ability to sort out the roles of the
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Bridging the Urban–Rural Divide
In recent years, newspaper headlines and commentators have bemoaned a growing “urban–rural divide,” characterized by stark differences in political and social attitudes that appear to be fueled, at least in
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