SLGR Governance Matters Feedback

Introduction

Your feedback on the Governance Matters (GM) section of State and Local Government Review is welcomed by the incoming section editor. [The section features peer reviewed applied research on state and local governments of interest to both practitioners and academics. This research may include case studies or other empirical pieces and in the past the section included articles on a variety of timely governance topics ranging from social media use to capital budgeting to likely social equity impacts at the local level of Trump administration budget cuts.]

Responses are anonymous unless you choose to provide contact information in response to the final question.

Thank you for your time.

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* 1. What topic areas would you be most interested in seeing covered in Governance Matters (GM) over the next two years?

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* 2. Of the following GM articles from 2017 and 2018, which did you find the most relevant/useful (select all that apply):

A Tale of the Half Full or Half Empty Cup: Core Values in Local Government Organizations in Practice by Thomas J. Barth, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay [Dec. 2018]

Local Governance and the Issue of Fiscal Health by Bruce D. McDonald, III [March 2018]

U.S. Floods: The Necessity of Mitigation by Beverly A. Cigler [June 2017]

Local Government: Social Equity “First Responders” by Susan T. Gooden, Grant E. Rissler [March 2017]

Social Equity in the Trump Era: What Can Local Public Administrators Do to Improve Social Equity for Their Residents and Community in the Face of Federal Cuts? by Joan E. Pynes, Grant E. Rissler [March 2017]

I didn't find any useful

I have not read any GM articles in the past two years

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* 3. How, if at all, have you used GM articles in your work, research or teaching?

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* 4. What, if any, feedback or advice would you give to improve the Governance Matters section?

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* 5. The GM section seeks to publish research of particular interest to practitioners and to maintain a format and tone that is accessible to a broad range of practitioner backgrounds. Over the past two years, in your opinion, Governance Matters articles have been:

too focused on academic insight

a good balance of academic and practitioner-relevant insight

too focused on practitioner-relevant insight

don’t know

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* 6. Do you primarily think of yourself as an:

academic

“pracademic” having a foot in both worlds

a practitioner

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* 7. What facet of the intergovernmental structure are you most interested in:

local

state

the relationship between state and local

the relationship of the national level to sub-national

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* 8. How long have you been a member of the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM) of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)?

Not a SIAM member

0-3 years

3-5 years

5-10 years

longer than 10 years

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* 9. Periodically Governance Matters convenes a panel of practitioners to provide insights or examples from the front lines about a topic covered by a research article. The summarized insights are then published alongside the research article. If you are interested in being contacted for such panels in the future, please provide a permanent e-mail address, a title or description of your role as a practitioner, and any topic areas of particular interest.