This work performs a critical discourse analysis of federally-funded abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education curricula in order to understand how, through the implementation process, sex education policies construct gender and sexuality. Both the policy debates and the policy...
This dissertation examines the increased prevalence of obesity in the context of market failure. In welfare economics, market failure is an important precondition for government intervention. Obesity in the United States has risen dramatically in the last several decades; over two thirds of...
Local autonomy is a term that is frequently employed in both academic and popular discussions of local government, but it is rarely defined conceptually in a careful way or operationalized and subject to empirical research. In this paper we present a working definition of “local government...
In this chapter we examine how government and governance within metropolitan regions affect regional economies and regional economic growth. We focus on
the organization of government and governance within metropolitan regions, on the taxing and spending activities of governments within a...
Recent advances in information technology provide an
unprecedented opportunity to collect, organize, analyze,
disseminate, and visualize large volumes of data generated from
private and public administrative records. In addition, new
statistical methods make possible the creation of...
Prepared Statement of Sofie E. Miller, Senior Policy Analyst, The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, Hearing on The Federal Government on Autopilot: Delegation of Regulatory Authority to an Unaccountable Bureaucracy before the United States House of Representatives Judiciary...
The purpose of this report is to address three fundamental questions:
1. What factors determine and drive local economic growth and
development?
2. How do state and local tax and expenditure policies influence economic
growth and development?
3. Is there a balanced system of taxation that...
The Democracy Workshop at The George Washington University (GW) conducted a pilot project during October 2008 to assess how knowledge of social security, attitudes about politics, and ideas about the practice of policy
analysis might be influenced by a deliberative democracy experience....
This brief examines the potential and limitations of real-time LMI for federal agencies and national trade
associations. It finds that real-time LMI offers potential benefits for five activities conducted by these
organizations:
> Labor market research;
> Preparing occupational profiles;
>...
The purpose of this study is to assess the extent of variations in the revenue capacity and effort of local governments in six metropolitan areas – Baltimore, Las Vegas, Miami, Milwaukee, Richmond, and San Francisco. Our approach is to use the Representative Revenue System developed by the U.S....