Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills. And since 1976, our government has shut down 21 times for at least a day, when Congress could not agree on appropriations or pass stopgap funding, including a partial government shutdown of 35 days in 2018-2019.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Democracy is made up of factors such as voting rights, freedom of the governed, and minority rights. The number of democracies across the globe has decreased from its peak in 2019. Although democracy has greatly expanded globally over the past few decades, democratic backsliding has been a topic of concern over recent years.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

In 1998 and 2013, Houston changed its land use laws by reducing permissible lot sizes across the city, in turn, opening up areas dominated by large single-family houses to denser development. Ramapo is unusual because its large Orthodox voting bloc was more enthusiastic about housing growth than most suburbanites.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Purpose, crisis and new leadership The starting point, as always with the instinct for systemic reform, is purpose born of crisis: When Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine’s president in 2019, he promised to modernise a state that until then had been a byword for bureaucracy and corruption.

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