On the Differences Among: M-Gov, E-Gov, and I-Gov
This is Vol. 2, No.10, June 2005 issue of Bob Behn's Public Management Report, "an occasional (and maybe insightful) examination of the issues, dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities in leadership,...
View ArticleThe Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: An Analysis of the First Ten Years
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has been the de facto federal rental housing production program since its creation in the Tax Reform Act of 1986. In this article, using a detailed database on...
View ArticleGetting It Right: Issues for Medicare Reform
This transcript of senior fellow Marilyn Moon's testimony before the Senate Finance Committee outlines ways to improve the Medicare program so it fairly meet its goals. Trained as a traditional...
View ArticleImproving Budget Transparency in Bandung City, West Java Province
BIGS is a watchdog NGO in Bandung City, and has become well known for aggressively researching and disseminating budget data for the local government. Since BIGS began focusing on budget transparency...
View ArticleLocal Government and Human Rights
In recent years, human rights have become a prominent issue in politics and society, creating a new idea of concept of what human rights entails, extending to include not only social rights, but...
View ArticleFrom Reformasi to Institutional Transformation: A Strategic Assessment of...
The Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Program was inaugurated in January 2010. The first activity of the new program was to carry out a strategic assessment of Indonesia’s prospects for economic growth...
View ArticleBeginnings of Real Estate Brokerage in Moscow
This article describes the private housing transactions that are emerging as a large portion of Moscow's housing stock is transferred into private ownership and becomes available for sale or rent. An...
View ArticleOn Evidence-based Rethinking of Governance and Challenging Orthodoxy
Presentation by Daniel Kaufman at USAID, Washington, DC on the key issues and challenges in governance and anti-corruption programs at the World Bank
View ArticleStrengthening Our Workforce and Our Communities Through Housing Solutions
Chambers of commerce can play an important role in addressing workforce housing needs. Indeed, many of them are doing so — particularly in communities in which high housing costs add to the cost of...
View ArticleEducation Contracting: Scope of Future Research
This paper was prepared for the Program on Education Policy and Governance conference: Mobilizing the Private Sector for Public Education. The conference, held on October 5 and 6, 2005 at the John F....
View ArticleYouth Leadership Advisory Team: An Innovative Approach to Systems Improvement
Over the past two decades, the Maine child welfare system has developed an innovative approach to improve outcomes for older youth in care by working in partnership with youth. The Youth Leadership...
View ArticleLeading Ways: Preliminary Research on LEF Leadership for the Public Education...
In the early 1980s, public schools, particularly in urban areas, were struggling with changing demographics and a need for greater community commitment to public education. Small independent...
View ArticleHousing Privatization in the Russian Federation
In July 1991, the Russian Federation passed legislation permitting tenants of municipal and departmental housing (owned by enterprises or federal bodies) to purchase their units. This article examines...
View ArticleBuilding Capacity to Accelerate Service Transformation and E-Government
Paper presented at the 5th Global Forum on Innovation in Government. Putting the citizen at the centre of a "whole-of-government" approach to service delivery through the use of information and...
View ArticleThe Role of NGOs in Human Security
Human security is fundamentally concerned with helping people to deal with unforeseeable threats and sudden downturns, whether international financial crises, environmental disasters or incapacitating...
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