B&G REPORT.

Late last year, Bill Eggers, executive director of Deloitte's Center for Government Insights, wrote on LinkedIn that "Over my decades working on government reform, my one major complaint has always been that think tanks have focused so much time and resources on policy and too little on policy execution and the nitty-gritty of government operations He was playing our song, and we’d like to add that we find the same unfortunate phenomenon doesn’t just exist in think tanks but

When was the last time you heard anyone say, “Gee what an excellent bureaucracy we have in the Department of Motor Vehicles. It only took...

We’re looking forward to participating in a panel at the upcoming annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration...

As regular readers of this website know, we generally avoid covering politics or the federal government. That said, we’re beginning this...

When we were attending the most recent Southeastern Conference for Public Administration in Memphis (SECOPA), we sat in on a number of...

Back in March, in collaboration with Donald F. Kettl professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Maryland School of Public...

Not to be overly blunt, but we’ve grown sick and tired of hearing people complaining about how long it takes state and local governments...

Episode Two: Inappropriate Computer Access - We don’t recall any performance auditors complaining to us about the frustration they must...

Episode One: Data Quality - Over the course of years, as we’ve closely followed the work of state and local performance auditors, a...

In the tension-filled political week before the midterm elections, we were particularly grateful for a relatively new podcast called “You...

Periodically, we make a request in the B&G Report for recommendations of books that provide worthy reading for people who are interested...