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Research Agenda on Intergovernmental Relations

Client/Funder

Self-funded

Background

This Program Panel finished its brief study work just before Katrina hit the gulf region. The first Academy iteration of a Research Agenda for Intergovernmental Relations is anticipated for March 2006. These Agenda are intended as an annual offering of the Academy for the purposes of guiding academia, policy researchers, Congress, Foundations, government agencies, and others as to the specific research efforts and data collections that would advance intergovernmental relations and improvements in the intergovernmental system. This offering is an important part of the Academy’s efforts to bring leadership to the field of intergovernmental relations.

This Program Panel study involved a literature and website review, interviews, consideration of the presentations by several think tanks and policy research organizations, and the outputs from an Academy survey of its Fellows and other experts.

Panel

John J. Callahan, Panel Chair - Former Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, and Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Acting Commissioner, U.S. Social Security Administration. Former positions with the U.S. Senate: Chief of Staff to Senator Jim Sasser; Deputy Staff Director, Senate Budget Committee; Staff Director, Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Federalism, and the District of Columbia; Staff Director, Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations; Director of Federal-State Relations; Executive Director, Legislators' Education Action Project

William Dodge, Jr. - Principal, Regional Excellence Consulting. Former Executive Director, National Association of Regional Councils; Principal, Strategic Partnerships Consulting; Director, Intergovernmental Cooperation Program; Director, Consortium for Public Administration Field Services, University of Pittsburgh; Co-Director, Committee for Progress and Efficiency in Pittsburgh and Committee for Progress in Allegheny County (Pennsylvania); Director, Allegheny County Department of Planning and Development; Deputy Director, Office of Budget and Management, State of Ohio. .

George D. Goodman - Former Executive Director, Michigan Municipal League. Former Director, Opportunity Program, Coordinator of Academic Support Services, Assistant Director of Admissions, and Admissions Counselor, University of Michigan.

Shelley Metzenbaum - Director, Environmental Compliance Consortium, and Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. Former Executive Director, Performance Measurement Project, JFK School of Government, Harvard University; Associate Administrator for Regional Operations and State/Local Relations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Under Secretary, Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, and Director, Office of Capital Planning and Budgeting, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.