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Intersector Briefing: Pay for Success
Pay-for-success programs—partnerships in which government contracts with private partners who provide upfront capital to high quality service providers to achieve a public goal—offer a promising approach for government across a…
Why Cuts to Health Care Lack Efficiency
Why was the ACA more efficient than the American Health Care Act? For starters, the individual mandate. The mandate stopped the “death spiral” trying to obtain fairly priced insurance by…
Intersector Briefing: Cross Sector Collaboration in Cybersecurity
In 2016, it seemed that cybersecurity, privacy and hacking were constantly in the news, from the heated discussion of election related hacking to the revelation that in December 2013, Yahoo…
A Tale of Six Cities
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization. By Carletta Walker January 27, 2017 As we enter 2017,…
Collaborative Governance: San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center
San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center is now under construction in the city's Financial District. Financing, design, construction, and operation is the responsibility of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. State law…
Social Demographics Impacting the Infrastructure
Many think of public values and attitudes as passing fads. Yet, research has found that public views on a variety of topics underwent fundamental shifts in the last quarter century.…
Michigan’s Municipal Takeover Law
Michigan has one of the most aggressive policies for responding to local fiscal crises. In 2011, Michigan passed what is commonly called “PA 4” into law, giving the state’s emergency…
The Estranged Legislative and Executive Branches
Hugh Heclo's A Government of Strangers, published 40 years ago, described the very different worlds of high-level federal appointees and the civil-servant worker bees they purportedly manage. Today that sort…
What Makes the Home Rule Cities Group Effective
In last quarter’s column, I discussed the formation and organization of the Home Rule Cities over 20k group, an informal quarterly meeting of mayors from the described cities. The group…
The Future of Government HR Management
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization. By Bill Brantley May 5, 2015 When I introduce myself…
Leadership Inspires or Prompts Endless Crises
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization. By Jamil Jreisat February 21, 2017 Past experiences in public…
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