As a student of local government for most of my life, I have observed the substantial differences in the approach to governance among local government organizations. Some operate in a way that ...

So how did Cincinnati end up with the council-manager form of government, where a professional city manager runs the day-to-day operations and a nine-member council sets policy? It was a case of ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...