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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

taxpaying public. 12 This means that the taxpayers are now officially (again, using FHFA calculations) earning a sub-standard return on their investment, providing what amounts to a large, hidden, and never-congressionally-approved economic subsidy to the GSEs, 13 which is not good public policy. 22] See the G-fee Report, pp.

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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. Politics and public administration: What is the appropriate relationship? doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02430.x.

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

Public Policy Blog

Power is a difficult concept to study but if you are tracking outcomes, it becomes a little bit easier as James Battista (2011) states in his paper Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. Battista, James (2011). State Politics & Policy Quarterly , 11(1), 102-118. References. State Legislatures. Darcy, R (996).

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011. 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. Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. Look out world.