Michigan local leaders’ views on state preemption and how to share policy authority

This report presents the opinions of Michigan’s local government leaders regarding concerns over state government preemption of local decision making and preferred areas of shared and separate policy authority between local and state government. The findings in this report are based on statewide surveys of local government leaders in the Fall 2016 wave of the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS).

• Governmental Relations
• governance
• intergovernmental relations
• Relations with state government
• State government
• State mandates and preemption
• State policies
• Democracy
• Community and Social Issues