by Patricia Quintero Estades A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece on partisanship in Puerto Rico and its detrimental effects on governance. In it, I mentioned how bipartisanship and cooperation is something that the U.S. needs as well. Nothing drives a wedge between people of different ideologies like an Read more…
Resh, William; Siddiki, Saba; McConnell, Will R. Does the Network Centrality of Government Actors Matter? Examining the Role of Government Organizations in Aquaculture Partnerships. Review of Policy Research, 11/2014, Volume 31, Issue 6. Abstract The growth in the use of collaborative governance arrangements has been accompanied by burgeoning scholarship in the Read more…
Frank V. Zerunyan and Peter Pirnejad wrote a “Commentary” for American City & County on the Lakewood Plan. The governance model of the Lakewood Plan, or Contract Cities, encourages interorganizational networks of public and private sectors to jointly solve policy and public administration problems. The Plan emerged from a perfect Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback When most people think about government in the United States, sovereign Native American governance structures are seldom considered. There are 566 federally recognized American-Indian tribal governments in the country that stretch across 27 states, including the nation’s largest states and all of the states west of the Mississippi Read more…