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 program that has gathered the opinions of elected and appointed officials from all 1,856 of Michigan’s general purpose local governments over the last 12 years. During that time, various MPPS survey waves have explored a wide-ranging collection of issues related to the functioning of democracy and political participation in local governments statewide.
