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Governance

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Better Management for Better Schools: A Review of the Structure and Functions of the Central Office of the Cambridge Public Schools
Boston Bound: A Comparison of Boston's Legal Powers with Those of Six Other Major American Cities
Bringing Smart Growth to Massachusetts: Douglas Foy and the Office for Commonwealth Development
Can CitiStat Work in Greater Boston?
Changes in Mitigation: Comparing Boston's Big Dig and 1950s Urban Renewal
Churches, Charities, and Corrective Justice: Making Churches Pay for the Sins of Their Clergy
Creating Communities of Learning: Public Education in Greater Boston
Efficiency Improvements to the Fleet Management Systems in the City of Worcester
Enhancing Regional Greenfrastructure
Immigration and Local Urban Participatory Democracy: A Boston-Paris Comparison
Incentives, Capacity, and Implementation: Evidence from Massachusetts Education Reform
Local Services, Local Aid and Common Challenges
Mayoral Influence, New Regimes, and Public School Governance
Measuring Disparities in Non-School Costs and Revenue Capacity Among Massachusetts Cities and Towns
Political Contributions by Asian Americans: An Analysis of the 2002 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Campaign
Protecting the Innocent: The Massachusetts Governor’s Council Report
Punishing Not-for-Profit: Implications of Nonprofit Privatization in Juvenile Punishment
Reaching Capacity: A Blueprint for the State Role in Improving Low Performing Schools and Districts
Regulation and Capitalization of Environmental Amenities: Evidence from the Toxic Release Inventory in Massachusetts
Rethinking the Allocation of Teaching Resources
Robin Hood and His Not-So-Merry Plan: Capitalization and the Self-Destruction of Texas' School Finance Equalization Plan
Sacred Landscapes and Profane Structures: How Offshore Wind Power Challenges the Environmental Impact Review Process
School Choice: An Experimental Study
Striking a Responsive Chord: How Political Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotions
The Chelsea Experiment
The Implementation and Utilization of Stabilization Funds by Local Governments in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Health Care Revolution: A Local Start for Universal Access
The Myth of Home Rule: Local Power in Greater Boston
The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behaviorial Blend
The Varieties of CitiStat
Too Many Parents? Part A: Governance of Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway and Part B: Making a Conservancy Work

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