Enhancing Intergovernmental Performance

The Intergovernmental Studies Program (IGSP) works to improve governmental performance and collaborative outcomes for state and local governments. The IGSP team studies public services delivered by local governments or through intergovernmental systems to understand how they actually operate, how much they cost, and how they can be improved. IGSP also engages in the study of state-local and intermunicipal collaboration so that cooperative outcomes can be optimized and replicated.

IGSP Recent Activities

• A study of restructuring options for justice courts in Delaware County has been released by the Intergovernmental Studies Program.
   
  
• IGSP affiliated scholars, Robert Purtell and James Fossett, have released their working paper on an alternative fund-raising strategy to leasing seasoned assets to private operators.
   
  
• Rockefeller College State and Local Government Expert Sydney Cresswell
  Named to Cuomo Transition Team
   
  
• The Intergovernmental Studies Program Justice Court Study has been released by Ulster County (July, 2010)


• The Intergovernmental Studies Program is preparing a publication to help local government officials and governing boards build a review process for their justice court operations


• IGSP meets with the newly organized SUNY Working Group on Government Restructuring (June, 2010)


• IGSP supports NYS Attorney General's plan to reform local government