This article outlines Santa Clarita, California's strategy for appraisal of its city manager’s performance, which involves the use of a third party facilitator.

This article suggests that communities link citizen engagement, government policy and implementation, and performance measurement.

This article provides a general description of how the census is conducted and ways that local governments can participate.

This report of 190 pages looks into the following aspects of shared services as they were implemented in Carthage and West Carthage, NY near the year 2000.

This article addresses the impact that economic globalization, technological advances, and deregulation may have on state and local governments.