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Rick Baker |
Rick Baker former mayor of St. Petersberg, FL, is an adjunct fellow at the Center for State and Local Leadership and author of
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• Economic Development
• Urban Governance
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Daniel DiSalvo
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Daniel DiSalvo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an Assistant Professor of Political Science the City College of New York CUNY.
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• Public Employee Unions
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Rick Dreyfuss
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Rick Dreyfuss is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
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• Public Finance
• Healthcare
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Stephen Eide
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Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
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• Public Administration
• State and Local Fiscal Policy
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Nicole Gelinas
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Nicole Gelinas is the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.
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• State and Local Fiscal Policy
• Public Transportation and Infrastructure
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Edward Glaeser
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Edward Glaeser is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor of City Journal, a contributor to The New York Times' Economix blog,
and the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, author of Triumph
of the City
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• Urban Governance
• Economic Development
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George Kelling
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George Kelling is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
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• Public Safety
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Steven Malanga
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Steven Malanga is City Journal's senior editor, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow, and a Real Clear Markets.com columnist.
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• Public-Employee Unions
• New York City Fiscal Policy
• Business Issues
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Edmund McMahon
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Edmund J. McMahon is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and its Albany-based Empire Center for New York State Policy.
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• New York City and State Tax and Fiscal Policy
• State and Local Fiscal Policy
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Fred Siegel
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Fred Siegel is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a City Journal contributing editor.
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• Urban Governance
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Jacob Vigdor
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Jacob Vigdor is an adjunct fellow at the Center for State and Local Leadership, a professor of public policy and economics at Duke University, and a
Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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• Immigration
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Marcus Winters
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Marcus A. Winters is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an assistant professor at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. |
• Teacher Evaluation
• School Choice (Vouchers / Charters)
• Special Education
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Media Inquiries:
Ray Niemiec
212.599.7000
rniemiec@manhattan-institute.org
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About the Center for State and Local Leadership
State and local governments are the laboratories of democracy where new ideas are first tried and tested. In the 1990s, successful innovations in reforming public assistance and controlling crime emerged this way. Today, promising new approaches to reform of unaffordable public pensions, improvement of public education, and control of public spending are germinating in our states and cities. The Center spotlights such ideas and provides the research and proposals to fuel even more, with a special focus today on public finance, public education, and the delivery of public services. The Center hosts high-profile events, launches acclaimed books, seeds game-changing policy initiatives, and manages popular websites, such as PublicSectorInc.org, which dive deeply into key issues facing state and city governments.
Public Sector Reform
State and city budgets across the nation are sagging under the weight of promises to public employees which governments cannot afford. It's a crisis that has led to stark choices: cuts in public services and even bankruptcy or reform. The Center examines key questions the crisis has raised. Should public employees make more than private employees? How can pension and health benefits be fairly structured? Are there new ways for taxpayers to get the services that they deserve for the tax dollars that they spend? Through our online web-portal PublicSectorInc.org the Center is leading the national conversation about these issues, highlighting the best ideas from across the country, and laying out a positive vision for a new social contract between public employees and the American taxpayer.
PublicSectorInc.org is a one-stop-shop for the latest news, analysis and research about the issues facing the public sector and the American taxpayer.
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Policing
As proven by the remarkable turnaround in New York City in the mid-1990's which saw crime rates plummet, neighborhoods be re-claimed, and the quality of life for all New Yorkers dramatically improve cities can win the war on crime. Through a series of reforms pioneered by Manhattan Institute fellows most notably the use of "broken windows" or social order policing and management mechanisms such as CompStat, many of America's police departments have proven that the right mix of reform, coupled with a willingness to challenge the status quo, can lead to safer streets and stronger communities.
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Prisoner Re-Entry
The Manhattan Institute has long been committed to finding ways of drawing the disadvantaged into the social and economic mainstream, through the time-honored American combination of free markets and personal initiative. And we have long been committed to helping cities improve their quality of life. These commitments come together in our pilot project with the City of Newark, New Jersey, where we helped to design and implement a strategy for a model prisoner-reentry program.
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Newark Prisoner Reentry Initiative >>
Education Reform
The educational achievement of America's children continues to decline, despite long-term increases in public spending, improvements to the physical and technical infrastructure of schools, and a constant focus on smaller class sizes. For parents, public school options are particularly bleak in America's cities and new ideas are needed to spur innovation and stem the achievement decline. The Center focuses on three key issues in public education including school choice, teacher quality and the role of teachers' unions in the reform movement.
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Public Housing
America's public housing model has been deteriorating since the 1970's and the need for new, innovative approaches to this critical social issue is clear. The skylines of so many American cities are littered with the bleak reminders of a failed housing policy that eschewed personal responsibility for the sake of group dependency. The Center is committed to critically examining the latest proposals to re-invent public housing policy in a way that improves the economic, social and emotional well-being of our cities and their citizens.
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Infrastructure
The need to maintain, improve and expand America's aging infrastructure is critical to bolstering America's competitiveness, fostering economic growth and maintaining a good quality of life. But too often public funds are spent without regard for the most important of investment criteria: return on investment. As state and city budgets shrink, a fresh look at infrastructure financing is needed to ensure that development is done in the most efficient and effective way. Our fellows are constantly generating new proposals for how best to achieve America's infrastructure goals which keeping an eye keenly focused on the bottom line.
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Immigration
Understanding the economic, civic, and cultural progress of immigrants to the United States is critical to understanding how various government policies are impacting the social fabric of America. When cities the primary places in which new Americans settle are successful at assimilating recent immigrants, a rich civic life can flourish and economic growth and political stability can be maintained. The Center tracks the assimilation of immigrants in America's cities in order to better understand how to best ensure opportunities for all Americans.
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Public Services
As cities and states face shrinking budgets, the need for mayors and governors to re-imagine how they deliver public services is critical. Drawing on successful examples from individuals such as Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, District of Columbia School Superintendent Michelle Rhee, Atlanta Public Housing Authority Director Renee Glover and Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the Center provides best practices that help make government more effective and efficient. To highlight successes, the Center runs an
annual award competition called the Urban Innovator, honoring one policymaker per year who has pioneered a truly game-changing way of delivering value to taxpayers. By transforming the way government works, we can lay the groundwork for an environment in which commerce, employment, and a rich civic life can flourish.
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RECENT EVENTS:
Breaking The Deadlock: Toward A Solution On Teacher Evaluations In New York City
 New York City schools chancellor Dennis Walcott addressed the Manhattan Institute on the issue of a new teacher evaluation and accountability system. His remarks were followed by a panel of experts including: Columbia University professor Aaron Pallas, Deputy Chancellor of NYC Department of Education, Marc Sternberg, and MI senior fellow Marcus Winters, who is also the author of Teachers Matter, in which he argues that our failure to identify and reward high-quality teachers has been devastating for public school students.
What Wisconsin's Experience Can Mean for America
 The Manhattan Institute's Center for State and Local Leadership hosted Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, following his historic recall election victory in June, to explain his experience reforming the public sector and freeing cities and states to find their own sound fiscal footing. His leadership is a model for governors across the country and holds many lessons for policymakers and political leaders who want to bring fiscal sanity to government.
EVENT VIDEO
RECENT ARTICLES:
Mike Bloomberg's End Times Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 01-30-13
A Threat to Pension Solvency E. J. McMahon, Albany Times Union, 01-29-13
Gov's Hidden Perils: Dubious Details in New Budget E. J. McMahon, New York Post, 01-28-13
Paint The Town: Republicans Need Urban Voters and Cities Need the GOP Edward L. Glaeser, New York Post, 01-27-13
Andrew's $andy $pending $torm Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 01-24-13
Courts v. Cops: The Legal War on the War on Crime Heather Mac Donald, Wall Street Journal, 01-23-13
Two Governors Propose Radical Tax Reform Steven Malanga, RealClearMarkets, 01-23-13
Will Mike Strike Out? Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 01-21-13
Unhealthy State of Retiree Costs Stephen Eide, The Boston Herald, 01-15-13
State and Local Governments Still in Desperate Need of Reform Stephen Eide, The Daily Caller, 01-14-13
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Motor City to Implement Proven "Broken Windows" Policing Strategy
In an effort to revive Detroit's neighborhoods, the Detroit Police Department has partnered with the Manhattan Institute to develop a long-range strategy to maintain order,
reduce fear, prevent crime, and improve the quality of life of its citizens.
Find out more information about the initiative.
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History of MI's State
And Local Policy Work
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MI's 25th Anniversary book: Chapter 5:
The Urban Renaissance
Michael Barone writes about the institute's efforts in urban policy: the crime-fighting innovations that have helped American cities regain control of their
streets; welfare and education reform; and privatization:
"Markets work, morality matters: the Manhattan Institute has spent a quarter-century restating these truths, wrongly cast aside as irrelevant
in the 1960s and 1970s."
Turning Intellect Into Action: Three Manhattan Institute Case Studies
A selection of the Manhattan Institute's on-the-ground successes in the areas of education, prisoner reentry, and counterterrorism, which demonstrate our ability
to both anticipate policy challenges and respond when events require immediate action.
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