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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

Retrieved from h ttp://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf. SOCIAL SWARMING: Asymmetric effects on public discourse in future conflict. Social media in the public sector field guide: Designing and implementing strategies and policies. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds.,

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. First it was the design method instead of rational planning; Then action planning; incorporating the design method, social marketing, implementation and citizen centricity. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As GSEs, they were highly limited in their permitted activities but given a preferred market position, along with the subsidies and privileges needed to deliver a public policy benefit to the public. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. More political than commercial.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This has unexpectedly led to heated public commentary, including two highly critical Wall Street Journal editorials. The core claim made by critics is that the changes, implemented on May 1, are a mechanism for a new and major economic cross-subsidy from less risky borrowers to more risky ones. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Instead, despite the adoption of the new and much higher official regulatory capital requirement in 2020, the agency just delayed the implementation of the higher capital level for two years. taxpaying public. And will any change be implemented quickly or perhaps incrementally over several years? Of the current 0.46

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

At the same time, traditional political movements—those linked to candidates or issue campaigns—have responded to opportunities presented by the new media environment by becoming hybrid organizations, centrally managed but enabling a relatively entrepreneurial base (Bimber, Flannagan, & Stohl, 2005).