As we enter the 21st century, the nation faces a host of major governing challenges prompted by globalization, advancing technology and rising structural budget deficits. As we grapple with the ...

Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas administers one of Texas’ 28 local provider participation funds that generate a portion of the state’s share of Medicaid matching payments. Local ...

The Homeland Security Department faces formidable challenges that, if not properly addressed, will escalate intergovernmental fragmentation, confusion and ineffectiveness, a panel of government ...

In 2020 and 2021, Congress allocated more than $4 trillion to pull the country through unprecedented national public health and economic crises in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat the ...

The negotiated and approved text will be submitted to Member States for the adoption by the General Conference of UNESCO at its 41st session. If adopted, the Recommendation will be the first global ...

The Alpena County Intergovernmental Council is slated to meet on Feb. 5 at 6 p.m. at the Alpena township office building. During the meeting, there will be discussion on fire risk and response due to ...

Our purpose is three-fold. First, we summarize some of the core insights from both classic and more recent papers in the literature on the role of intergovernmental grants in systems of fiscal ...

What’s the most important issue that the 2016 presidential candidates won’t be talking about? A very good bet is the train wreck facing federal-state-local finances. There are lots of mega-issues on ...

This paper analyses the behavior of intergovernmental interest groups in terms of Paul Peterson's theory of local government behavior in a constraining political/economic environment. A hypothesis ...

Keith Shine receives (or has recently received) funding from the UK's Natural Environment Research Council and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme. He has been involved ...