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How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff

American City & Country

Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It results from past budget deficits and requires ongoing management through interest and principal repayments.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

That even so, transit (and sustainable mobility) is what distinguishes DC from the suburbs and that you need more of it to continue to differentiate DC as a place to choose to live and conduct business. Incrementalism is a public administration theory proposed in the 1950s by Charles Lindblom. Or the Norfolk light rail.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unlike the local and state jurisdictions that fund Metro, federal money goes only to the agency’s capital budget but not to its separate operating budget — a distinction local officials have long said is inequitable. Good luck with that.

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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

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

Many governments, therefore, have interfund transfer policies established that regulate the process of using interfund transfers to prevent arbitrary manipulation and misuse of public resources. This is adapted in part from a Public Budgeting & Finance journal article by Michelle L.

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The New Orthodoxy

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

Why we need a critical review of digital transformation of government and the public sector in Australia to support human flourishing through sustainable and shared prosperity. One lesson from COVID is we can’t allow those three big drivers of resilience and adaptability to work in isolation.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

Collaborating with the Florida League of Cities (FLC), we endeavored to provide a simple and practical revenue forecasting strategy to help cities in Florida plan and prepare for the potential impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on their budgets. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.