Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives.
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The Bus System of the Future
Indianapolis is rethinking its approach, seeking new efficiencies that will better serve those from disadvantaged communities.
The First Decade of Open Data Has Been a Win — but Not for the Reasons You Think
When data.gov launched in May of 2009, the site seemed to fulfill a vision of openness and rebuilding trust that defined President Obama’s first electoral campaign.
Problem, Person and Pathway: A Framework for Social Innovators
The Handbook of Inclusive and Social Innovation: The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities offers a comprehensive review of research on inclusive innovation to address systemic and structural
The State of the State Department and American Diplomacy
The U.S. State Department serves a critical role for the nation. Its men and women in the Foreign and Civil Service are on the front lines for the U.S. in over 277 embassies and consulates abroad.
Efficient Warnings, Not “Wolf or Puppy” Warnings
Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on in
Trump’s Iraq Visit Alone Won’t Undo Damage He Did Last Week
The move of President Donald Trump to visit Baghdad on Wednesday is a small, good one, amid a week of calamitous decisions.
Problem-Oriented Policing: Matching the Science to the Art
This paper is an edited version of the Jerry Lee Lecture delivered at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium in 2018, the year in which Professor Herman Goldstein was awarded the Stockholm Prize in Crimi
No Exceptions: The Decision to Open All Military Positions to Women
As Secretary of Defense, I devoted a large amount of my time to visiting our troops at bases around the world.
Functional Structures of US State Governments
Understanding of modern government is limited by a lack of comprehensive, reliable, comparable data on what governments do and how they are organized to execute their diverse responsibilities.
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