Government Innovators Network: Topic: Governance and Politics

This page summarizes Government Innovators Network content about Governance and Politics.

This section explores innovations and ideas aimed at improving the functioning of government and confidence in government, and it also discusses trends in governments across the world. The topics of the section include civic engagement and social capital, civil liberties, democratization, E-government, electoral politics, leadership, and privatization.

Direct Election of Delegates to Women's Associations (93%)
Innovations and Excellence in Local Chinese Governance in China
April 20, 2005

Akimel O'odham/Pee-Posh Youth Council (79%)
Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations in the United States
April 20, 2005

Public Contract Operations (74%)
Innovations in American Government Awards

One-stop E-government Reform (71%)
Innovations and Excellence in Local Chinese Government
2008

Elders Cultural Advisory Council (68%)
Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations in the United States
April 20, 2005

Privatization of Small Town Public Amenities (68%)
Innovations and Excellence in Local Chinese Governance in China
April 7, 2005

Privatization of Federal Investigations (67%)
State of Wisconsin

Privatization the solution? (67%)
Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA)
November 30, 2008

California State University Fullerton Offers Doctorate in Community College And Higher Ed Leadership (63%)
Targeted News Service
October 8, 2008

ASH INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND INNOVATION; Harvard Kennedy School Announces Major Initiative on Effective Governance (62%)
China Weekly News
December 2, 2008

Panel urges private-DOT alliances; Idea seen as way to afford new roads (60%)
The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
December 27, 2008

Public-private team sought for economy; N.O. business leaders are big part of plan (58%)
Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
December 7, 2008

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Local Government and Human Rights (100%)
Gonzalo Delamaza (organizer)

January 1, 2008

The Role of NGOs in Human Security (88%)
Sarah Michael
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, John F. Kennedy School of Government
November 1, 2002

Housing Privatization in the Russian Federation (84%)
Nadezhda Kosareva, Raymond Struyk
Fannie Mae Foundation
January 1, 1993

Education Contracting: Scope of Future Research (82%)
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University
October 1, 2005

Getting It Right: Issues for Medicare Reform (80%)
Marilyn Moon
Urban Institute
June 6, 2003

Improving Budget Transparency in Bandung City, West Java Province (79%)
Laila Kuznezov with Janes Imanuel Ginting, and Gregorius Kelik Agus Endarso
The World Bank - Indonesia and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation International Innovations Liason Group
September 1, 2005

Building Capacity to Accelerate Service Transformation and E-Government (75%)
Michelle d'Auray, Chief Information Officer, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Canada
Fifth Global Forum on Reinventing Government
2004

Civil Liberties and National Security: Is There Common Ground? (74%)
March 16, 2004

Nine Imperatives for Leadership of 311-Enabled Government (64%)
11/13/2008

Latino Leadership: Creating Opportunity and Raising the Bar (56%)
April 22, 2005

Governing by Network Proposes Innovations in Government (56%)
December 8, 2004

Executive Sponsorship of E-Health: Leadership for the Next Wave of Reform (55%)
04/17/2007

Social Media for Government
February 9, 2009 - February 12, 2009
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Strategic Human Capital Management for Government
March 9, 2009 - March 12, 2009
Washington, DC

FOSE 2009: Where Federal Power Meets Future Power
March 10, 2009 - March 12, 2009
Wasington, DC

GOVSEC 2009: The Insight to Secure Our Nation
March 11, 2009 - March 12, 2009
Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC

21st Annual FIRST Conference
June 28, 2009 - July 3, 2009
Hotel Granvia, Kyoto, Japan