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The Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), a program of biannual state-wide surveys of local government leaders in Michigan, was launched by the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) in 2009. The surveys cover a wide range of issues important to local and state governance, such as fiscal, budgetary and operational policy, fiscal health, public sector compensation, workforce development, local-state governmental relations, intergovernmental collaboration, privatization, economic development strategies and initiatives such as placemaking and economic gardening, the role of local government in environmental sustainability, energy topics such as hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and wind power, trust in government, views on state policymaker performance, and much more.
MPPS Topics list:
Citizen Engagement
Community and Social Issues
Economic Development
Energy and Environment
Federal Government
Governmental Relations
- Federal government
- Intergovernmental cooperation
- Intergovernmental relations
- Intragovernmental relations
- Local government job performance
- State government
Infrastructure
Local Government Finance, Budget, and Operations
- Employee Compensation
- Finances
- Fiscal Health
- Performance Management
- Revenue
- Services
- System of Funding Local Government
- Taxes
Local Government Workforce
Public Safety
Services
- Education
- Election Administration
- Infrastructure
- Privatization
- Public Safety
- Service demand and spending
- Service Provision
- Transportation and Transit