Balancing act: How do local governments use social media in crises?Zhe DengHanchen JiangBo FanXiao Tang
Many (local) governments worldwide experiment with citizen participation in policy decision-making. Engaging citizens is assumed to be an answer to the real or perceived crisis of representative democracy. There is, however, no consensus about the extent to which the key actors in democracy – ele...
This has interesting ramifications for the extent to which home rule could be applied with an eye to the granting of immunity by state government to local governments. 4. Although we do note that the Commonwealth continues to fund local government directly through the Roads to Recovery program. ...
Race, Representation and Local Governments in the Us South: The Effect of the Voting Rights ActEnfranchisementIdentity PoliticsLocal ElectionsMinority RightsPublic Good ProvisionThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 redefined race relations in the US South. Yet, evidence on its effect on black office-holding...
Through March 31, state, local, territorial and tribal governments had reported around $173.6 billion in Treasury-approved uses from the SLFRF, which was launched in 2021 as part Democratic President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act approved by Congress. T...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Friday voted to limit when local governments can count election ballots by hand, a move aimed at a rural Northern California county that canceled its contract with Dominion Voting Systems amid unfounded
Lundgren15has presented an analysis of the approaches that governments can use in governing and managing their education system which we draw on here. In this model, instruments of legal governance—the most traditional and binding instrument of governance for public services—include the acts, decree...
Known as the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), the law represents the sixth COVID-19 recovery measure that Congress has passed since last March. Local governments across the country will receive a total of $130.2 billion, including $65.1 billion to counties, and $65.1 billion to ...
(2017). Are state governments roadblocks to federal stimulus? Evidence on the flypaper effect of highway grants in the 2009 recovery act. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9(2), 253–92. Google Scholar Legrenzi, G. (2009). “Asymmetric and Non-linear Adjustments in Local Fiscal ...
Another instrument that local governments may use to achieve energy efficiency targets on residential sites relates to the sustainable construction covenant. This covenant has been active since 1997; one aspect that it covers is the public housing sector, a common type of housing in dense urban resi...