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Policy responsiveness and its administrative organisation in China 

Policy & Politics Journal blog

Our recent article published in Policy & Politics demonstrates that Chinese governments effectively address public demands, especially on environmental issues, using online petition data… Continue reading →

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

32) prohibits a local government from providing “exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges” to private individuals except “in consideration of public services.” Generally, if an act will promote the welfare of a state or a local government and its citizens, it is for a public purpose. Additionally, G.S.

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Privatization of municipal utility systems (water mostly)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Similarly, water systems owned by local governments are being privatized because they can't keep up with the cost of modernization and new and more stringent environmental regulation. The solution is to have a huge federal infrastructure bank to loan local governments money to deal with infrastructure costs.

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Have a laugh and learn all about ‘The G Word,’ a comedy docuseries about our government

Partnership for Public Service

He was at the time becoming very involved in our local government in Los Angeles. And John Adam and I had to really petition them. We worked for a while we had come up with, you know, we knew that the episode was going to focus on well, the federal government is so big how can we do anything about it? Jon Wolf: Yeah.