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5 Ways to Incorporate DEIA in Municipal Hiring to Improve Service Delivery

NLC (National League of Cities)

In response to these shifts, municipalities across the nation are working to ensure that elected officials and public administrators are representative of their constituencies to improve municipal service delivery. America’s racial and ethnic demographics have become increasingly diverse over the past few decades.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. It was this difference that became known as the politics-administration dichotomy.

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5 Ways That Agencies Are Ailing From Legacy Systems

GovLoop

Constituent Service Takes a Hit In August 2023, three members of the Senate urged the Social Security Administration to accelerate its modernization efforts. Applicants for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) “face significant administrative barriers to accessing this critical lifeline,” Sens.

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How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff

American City & Country

Promote transparency and accountability: Enhance transparency in budgetary processes and expenditures to increase trust with constituents. Regularly publish detailed financial reports, hold public forums, and engage the community in budget discussions.

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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

Best practice capacity building efforts that I've come across: -- " Building civic engagement systematically: Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods ," (2022) -- " Framingham Massachusetts creates Citizen Participation Officer position " (2018) -- " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy ," (2024) (..)

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

To actually succeed, the author describes that focusing instead on the political agenda and allowing males that may be attempting to save the “boys club” will eventually look like a liability to the elected position and eventually turn out of favor with his constituents.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

7) Meeting people where they are is not just a metaphor for social media but I think an extension of how the Obama administration has attempted to operate a particular type of constituent outreach. Look out world.