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Shelley Finlayson: Government and Ethics & Transparency at the Federal Level

Policy Chats

JUNE 4, 2021

Office of Government Ethics Chief of Staff & Program Counsel Shelley Finlayson talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about ethics and transparency within the executive branch of the federal government. She is also a member of the UCR School of Public Policy Advisory Board.

Public Policy

Public Policy Government Legislation Budgeting

Government: Ethics & Transparency at the Federal Level (with Shelley Finlayson)

Policy Chats

JUNE 4, 2021

Office of Government Ethics Chief of Staff & Program Counsel Shelley Finlayson talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about ethics and transparency within the executive branch of the federal government. She is also a member of the UCR School of Public Policy Advisory Board.

Public Policy

Public Policy Government Legislation Budgeting

Government: Ethics & Transparency at the Federal Level (with Shelley Finlayson)

Policy Chats

JUNE 4, 2021

Office of Government Ethics Chief of Staff & Program Counsel Shelley Finlayson talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about ethics and transparency within the executive branch of the federal government. She is also a member of the UCR School of Public Policy Advisory Board.

Public Policy

Public Policy Government Legislation Budgeting

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011).

Transportation

Transportation Coordinator Budgeting Sustainability

Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Technology renders some separations of time and space less meaningful, as we analyze the details of fallen dictatorships and changing governments from locations across the globe. Government decision makers should take these swarms and their access to democratized digital technologies into account in future planning scenarios” (p.

Social Media

Social Media Public Administration Communications Leadership

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)

MARCH 4, 2024

That’s because both are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). Part 1 covers some general background information on GSEs as well as the extremely relevant precedent set by the reforms imposed by the FHFA upon F&F in reaction to the most well-known case where the public-private hybrid GSE design had quite visibly flunked.

Legislation

Legislation Housing Regulations Operations

PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We received a tremendous response a few weeks ago when we published “A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance” by John Kamensky, a longtime leader in the performance field who we’ve known since the early 1990s when we visited him at his GAO office and he shared knowledge about performance management in New Zealand, Australia and other countries.

Public Administration

Public Administration Public Affairs Budgeting Public Policy

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These two recent entries recount many of the pieces as step by step I developed a more comprehensive approach to arts-based revitalization. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?):

Transportation

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning

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

JANUARY 3, 2014

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). The latest in American activism — targeting bankers more than governments — began with a blog post in July 2011 (Wasserman, 2011).

Social Media

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots

CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Mayor’s Order 2020-054 (District residents must "stay in their residences except to perform essential activities, engage in essential business, provide or obtain government services, or engage in certain authorized recreational activities not involving close contact with other persons"); N.Y. Brown Amusement Co. , 366, 371, 601 S.E.2d

Regulations

Regulations Engagement Public Policy Nonprofit

The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The second strand is my continuing investment in the patient slog that is public sector and public policy reform, in this case informed by following the work of Jennifer Pahlka. Their unique perspective on whether or not the rules are working as intended you would think would be welcomed as gold by the rule setters.

Regulations

Regulations Public Sector Government Constituents

The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Part 2: Charter-defect Reforms

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

Introduction The most discussed topic in housing finance policy in the last few months has been whether and when the second Trump administration (Trump II) might end the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F), the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).

Implementation

Implementation Legislation Housing Regulations

Public Administration Today

Shelley Finlayson: Government and Ethics & Transparency at the Federal Level

Government: Ethics & Transparency at the Federal Level (with Shelley Finlayson)

Trending Sources

Government: Ethics & Transparency at the Federal Level (with Shelley Finlayson)

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

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

PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

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

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.

CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Part 2: Charter-defect Reforms

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