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About Us

The Program on Local and Intergovernmental Studies (POLIS) seeks to advance productive intergovernmental systems, connect intergovernmental professionals, and serve as an information resource for governments and their partners. POLIS engages in objective inquiry into intergovernmental systems and effective practices. With particular emphasis on state-local and intermunicipal collaboration, we highlight the interdependent nature of government, stressing the ways that programs and information are coordinated, and cooperation achieved

	Sydney Cresswell Director scresswell@albany.edu
	Michael R. Hattery Associate Director mhattery@albany.edu
	Michael Landon Research Associate ml262285@albany.edu
	Joseph Martin Graduate Research Assistant jhmartin@albany.edu
	Matthew W. O'Neil Research Assistant moneil@albany.edu

Program on Local and Intergovernmental Studies
Affiliated Scholars

	David Andersen - Distinguished Service Professor System Dynamics and Public Policy (518) 442-5280 \| david.andersen@albany.edu
	James W. Fossett - Associate Professor, RIG fossettj@albany.edu \| 518-443-5846
	Yvonne D. Harrison - Assistant Professor, Milne 111 yharrison@uamail.albany.edu \| 518-442-4001
	Terry Maxwell - Associate Professor and Chair, Information Studies Information Policy and Management, Intergovernmental Studies (518) 442-5126 \| tamaxwell@hvc.rr.com
	Robert Purtell - Assistant Professor Public Finance and Fiscal Policy (518) 442-5276 \| rpurtell@albany.edu
	Todd Swanstrom - E. Desmond Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy, University of Missouri, St. Louis (Urban Policy) (314) 516-5259 \| swanstromt@umsl.edu
	Jordan Wishy - PhD, POLIS Fellow Public Law and Politics, Intergovernmental Studies (518) 772-3778 \| jordansw@albany.edu

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IGSP is now the Program on Local and Intergovernmental Studies (POLIS).

POLIS’s Local Governance Dialogue Project focused on issues affecting the health of municipalities in New York State. One consistent view expressed across interviews was state political leaders often work on a few high visibility symptoms rather than do the slow, hard work of dealing with underlying problems.

	David Andersen - Distinguished Service Professor System Dynamics and Public Policy (518) 442-5280 \| david.andersen@albany.edu
	James W. Fossett - Associate Professor, RIG fossettj@albany.edu \| 518-443-5846
	Yvonne D. Harrison - Assistant Professor, Milne 111 yharrison@uamail.albany.edu \| 518-442-4001
	Terry Maxwell - Associate Professor and Chair, Information Studies Information Policy and Management, Intergovernmental Studies (518) 442-5126 \| tamaxwell@hvc.rr.com
	Robert Purtell - Assistant Professor Public Finance and Fiscal Policy (518) 442-5276 \| rpurtell@albany.edu
	Todd Swanstrom - E. Desmond Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy, University of Missouri, St. Louis (Urban Policy) (314) 516-5259 \| swanstromt@umsl.edu
	Jordan Wishy - PhD, POLIS Fellow Public Law and Politics, Intergovernmental Studies (518) 772-3778 \| jordansw@albany.edu

About Us

Program on Local and Intergovernmental Studies Affiliated Scholars

Program on Local and Intergovernmental Studies (POLIS)

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

Program on Local and Intergovernmental Studies
Affiliated Scholars