Research Topics
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- Excellence in local government through professional city managers
- Local government Media relations and strategic marketing plans for cities
- Demographic trends – the needs of the aging population, population decline and the need for increased government cooperation/consolidation, immigration and cultural diversity
- Youth gang prevention
- Tax increment financing and economic development – impacts, best practices, defining success
- Cost of the sales tax on local governments
- LGA formula with new census data
- Levy limits – impact on levies and fees, government strategic behavior
- Flypaper effect and its reverse – effects of state aid cuts on local budgets and effect of state aids on local spending
- Personnel management changes since 1970 – cumulative costs and burden
- Public sector hiring – effects of demographic, economic and policy changes
- Affordable housing – what are cities doing? What economic factors affect supply?
- GASB 34 – how to implement
- College towns – loss of affordable housing to student housing
- Pay equity – is it still useful?
- Internet sales tax – loss of revenue, effect on main street businesses
- Government procurement via e-commerce
- Crimnet isssues
