Response Manuals for ‘Individuals’ and ‘Local Governments’

Strategies for Local Governments to Promote Solar

A variety of strategies and programs can be used by local governments to promote distributed solar installation. These programs or goals can be attempted in tandem or in a stepwise fashion. First, a goal for solar should be set to provide an example of solar installation benefits to the community. Then, solar permitting should be improved to allow for less time and money spent in the permitting...

Political Institutions and Conservation by Local Governments

In this article, the authors develop a political market framework to explain the circumstances under which Florida counties will supply environmental public goods in the form of conservation amendments to county general plans. The framework emphasizes the role of local legislative and executive institutions as mediators of local policy change. Using count models and interaction terms, the analy...

The Local Response to Tax Limitation Measures: Do Local Governments Manipulate Voters to Increase Revenues?

This paper provides evidence that some cities subject to a statewide tax limit manipulate their mix of productive and administrative services in an attempt to get voters to override the statewide limit. When a statewide limit reduces a city’s budget, one manipulative response is to cut “service” inputs (for example, teachers or uniformed police officers) by a relatively large amount, while cutt...

Increasing Social Capital for Disaster Response through Social Networking Services (SNS) in Japanese Local Governments

This research project was funded by The University of Tokyo, 21st COE Program and a grant (Monbukagakusho) in aid for scientific research B: “Network Governance, Consensus Building and its Management”. The researcher is sponsored by a Johann Wolfgang GoetheUniversity, Frankfurt am Main Doctoral Scholarship. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are t...

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