Pub Date : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1177/0160323x241234561
M. V. (Trey) Hood, Seth C. McKee
In the aftermath of Republicans’ stinging losses in 2020 and 2021, which contributed to relinquishing the presidency and U.S. Senate majority, respectively, Georgia’s GOP lawmakers passed comprehensive electoral reform in Senate Bill (SB) 202. In this Field Note, we outline SB 202’s major provisions, and then present results of a survey querying Georgia local election officials (LEOs) to assess how SB 202 affected administrative performance in the 2022 midterm elections. Unquestionably, SB 202’s raft of reforms greatly altered Georgia’s administrative apparatus, but it is anything but clear that these changes in the aggregate either improved or detracted from the system it replaced. Indeed, the most credible judgment rendered from LEOs, is that administrative performance is case-specific, and therefore highly contingent upon the reform of interest.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1177/0160323x241229441
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1177/0160323x241229441
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1177/0160323x241229440
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1177/0160323x241229440
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1177/0160323x231216895
Sarah Young, Matthew P. Thornburg
Tax complexity makes it challenging for citizens to understand how taxes imposed by state and local governments affect their tax bill. This paper considers citizen awareness and preferences for tax revenue options in the presence of tax features that increase complexity. The researchers mailed a survey questionnaire to a random sample of South Carolina voters measuring their level of knowledge and preferences for school tax funding during the last half of 2021. A sizable majority of respondents report the property tax as their least preferred option to fund school operations when compared to sales tax or commercial property tax, with variation in support by ideology, homeownership, and partisanship. However, respondents are broadly uninformed of current school tax funding mechanisms regardless of college degree attainment, ideology, and other important indicators. Most respondents are not aware of the “tax swap” that replaced residential property tax with a one-cent sales tax to fund South Carolina school operations.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1177/0160323x231215057
Whitney B. Afonso, Alex Combs, Christian Buerger
Amid rising concerns over the urban-rural divide, taxation equity, revenue generation, and local tax leakage, several states are contemplating measures to support jurisdictions perceived as bearing the brunt of evolving economic landscapes. In 2015, North Carolina introduced a system for local sales tax revenue sharing, wherein each county contributed to a pool of local sales tax revenue, subsequently redistributed among 79 of the 100 counties. This policy aimed to address tax leakage by ensuring that half of the base local sales tax remained at the point of sale, with the other half distributed on a per capita basis. In this analysis, we evaluate the policy’s effectiveness in achieving this equilibrium and identify limitations and shortcomings.
{"title":"Plugging the Tax Leak: An Analysis of North Carolina’s Local Sales Tax Redistribution Policy","authors":"Whitney B. Afonso, Alex Combs, Christian Buerger","doi":"10.1177/0160323x231215057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160323x231215057","url":null,"abstract":"Amid rising concerns over the urban-rural divide, taxation equity, revenue generation, and local tax leakage, several states are contemplating measures to support jurisdictions perceived as bearing the brunt of evolving economic landscapes. In 2015, North Carolina introduced a system for local sales tax revenue sharing, wherein each county contributed to a pool of local sales tax revenue, subsequently redistributed among 79 of the 100 counties. This policy aimed to address tax leakage by ensuring that half of the base local sales tax remained at the point of sale, with the other half distributed on a per capita basis. In this analysis, we evaluate the policy’s effectiveness in achieving this equilibrium and identify limitations and shortcomings.","PeriodicalId":52260,"journal":{"name":"State and Local Government Review","volume":"119 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139391404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1177/0160323x231215056
David Mitchell, Shabnam Mitchell
Project management has emerged as an important component of strategy implementation. In the private sector, traditional “waterfall” project management approaches have been supplemented by “agile” methods that are more iterative and recursive. However, less attention has been paid to the efficacy of agile project management approaches in the public sector. This study examines the contextual effectiveness of waterfall, agile, and hybrid project management approaches in public organizations. Regression analysis of 207 strategic initiatives from 43 US municipalities confirms that the effectiveness of project management approach is contingent upon implementation complexity. Further, a descriptive analysis indicates there is no discernable pattern to project management approach by these municipalities, therefore risking the viability of their adopted strategies by selecting ineffective project management methods. These findings emphasize that public organizations should thoughtfully employ project management as they implement strategic plans.
{"title":"Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls? How Complexity Demands More Agile Project Management Approaches to Municipal Strategy Implementation","authors":"David Mitchell, Shabnam Mitchell","doi":"10.1177/0160323x231215056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160323x231215056","url":null,"abstract":"Project management has emerged as an important component of strategy implementation. In the private sector, traditional “waterfall” project management approaches have been supplemented by “agile” methods that are more iterative and recursive. However, less attention has been paid to the efficacy of agile project management approaches in the public sector. This study examines the contextual effectiveness of waterfall, agile, and hybrid project management approaches in public organizations. Regression analysis of 207 strategic initiatives from 43 US municipalities confirms that the effectiveness of project management approach is contingent upon implementation complexity. Further, a descriptive analysis indicates there is no discernable pattern to project management approach by these municipalities, therefore risking the viability of their adopted strategies by selecting ineffective project management methods. These findings emphasize that public organizations should thoughtfully employ project management as they implement strategic plans.","PeriodicalId":52260,"journal":{"name":"State and Local Government Review","volume":"45 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1177/0160323x231212660
E. Zeemering, Kimberly Nelson
{"title":"Fostering Dialogue with Professional Practice","authors":"E. Zeemering, Kimberly Nelson","doi":"10.1177/0160323x231212660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160323x231212660","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52260,"journal":{"name":"State and Local Government Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"275 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139219956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1177/0160323x231206574
Ploy Suebvises
In Thailand, an increase in urbanization, economic downturn, and greater demands of the populace have made it difficult to maintain the work engagement of local public officials. By studying 635 employees working in municipal governments in all four major regions of Thailand, this study indicates that decentralized decision-making structure and ethical climates, particularly team interest, social responsibility, and rules and standard operating procedures, tend to have a significant positive impact on work engagement. On the other hand, low formalization of organizational structures was not seen to have significant impacts. Policy and managerial implications of these findings are discussed.
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