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21 August 2017 | Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy, By Christine Palus & Susan Webb Yackee*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

It was a great honor to receive the Beryl Radin Award at the 2017 PMRC conference at American University in June for our article entitled, “ Clerks or Kings? Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy ” in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

7] Because Congress had set up the GSEs through legislation, the Obama administration believed it was up to Congress to develop revisions to that legislation to eliminate these defects. Q3: Why was Congress unable to expeditiously pass legislation to correct those business model defects as a key step to ending conservatorship?

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Local authority partnerships encourage small cells delivery

Open Access Government - Technology News

For example, the updated Electronic Communications Code (2017) curtailed councils’ reliance on concession contracts as a way to enable small cell deployments in a local area. The 2017 ‘code’ does not provide a one-size-fits-all solution for the industry either – which may mean we need to look at legislation again.

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Washington Post editorializes about Purple Line cockups, inadequately attributes them to Larry Hogan

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And a general unwillingness by both sides to act as partners (" A Purple Line update: the downside of Public Private Partnerships" -- they are contracts, not partnerships ," 2017), ended up with the original contractor bailing out, leading to even more delays.

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How the Tri-COG Land Bank is Transforming Vacant Properties in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

They are created pursuant to state-enabling legislation which gives them unique powers like the ability to cost-effectively acquire tax-foreclosed properties, clear title, hold property tax-exempt, sell properties flexibly, and generate revenue.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. The plans were not connected to anything. Covid-19 has revealed that the UK civil protection system is inadequate.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. “This is a moment of ferment—and experimentation—in land use policy,” writes Noah M.

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