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SummaryCLOSUP’s Functioning of Democracy Project is designed to increase our understanding of how American...
The Spring 2020 Michigan Public Policy SurveyTopics:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); annual tracking items for...
The Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS) is a program of state-wide surveys of local government leaders in...
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Dec 04, 2020
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The Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) has released a new resource that summarizes Michigan local government leaders’ views on democracy and democratic governance. The findings come from the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), a...
Oct 27, 2020
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This report presents local government leaders’ views regarding the functioning of democracy in their jurisdictions, the State of Michigan, and the United States as a whole, as well as their levels of trust toward the federal, state, and other local governments....
Aug 18, 2020
This memo is included in the Local Government COVID-19 Fiscal Strategy and Resource Guide.
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Jun 03, 2020
This memo is included in the Local Government COVID-19 Fiscal Strategy and Resource Guide.
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Jun 12, 2020
This memo is included in the Local Government COVID-19 Fiscal Strategy and Resource Guide.
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May 14, 2020
This memo is included in the Local Government COVID-19 Fiscal Strategy and Resource Guide.
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Oct 01, 2009
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This first report in the MPPS program highlights key findings from the spring 2009 inaugural wave of the survey.
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Feb 01, 2016
Carolyn Rice, CLOSUP Policy Analyst
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This paper seeks to explore the issue of unilateral state authority over hydraulic fracturing policy and the possibility/ merits of a shared government model that incorporates local input. This analysis explores...
Jun 01, 2010
Elisabeth R. Gerber, Carolyn G. Loh
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We assess the potential for expanding regional planning by asking local government officials their perspectives on the potential for increasing regionalism in their communities, and the most promising approaches...
Mar 01, 2010
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Local government officials from across the state of Michigan were surveyed as part of the Michigan Public Policy Survey program. These officials report low trust in the state government and give low marks in their evaluation of the job performance of both...
Apr 01, 2010
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Local government officials from across the state of Michigan were surveyed as part of the Michigan Public Policy Survey program during Fall 2009 in the second MPPS survey wave. This wave focused on educational, economic, and workforce development issues....
Mar 01, 2011
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The Michigan Public Policy Survey asked Michigan's local government leaders an extensive battery of questions regarding intergovernmental cooperation, service sharing, consolidation, and more, during the Fall 2010 survey. Responses show that intergovernmental...
Aug 01, 2011
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This report presents the opinions of Michigan's local government leaders regarding the direction in which the state is headed, as well as their evaluations of the job performance of Governor Rick Snyder and the Michigan Legislature. These findings are based on...
Oct 01, 2011
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Fiscal stress continues to be a widespread and significant problem for local governments across Michigan, although the number of jurisdictions reporting further declines in fiscal health now is lower than it was in 2010. Overall, nearly half (48%) of Michigan...
Jan 01, 2012
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In 2011, the state of Michigan implemented major policy changes in its statutory revenue sharing program, through which it distributes funding to a subset of Michigan's 1,856 local governments. The new policy replaced formula-based funding with an incentive...