I recently had the pleasure of writing a blog post for the London School of Economic’s US Centre Blog. It covers a recent controversy about the Reedy Creek Improvement District -- something I have a somewhat unique perspective on as a scholar of local governments and, in particular, special districts. See below for the full text of the post as well as a link to the original.
Working papers
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Christopher B. Goodman and Deborah A. Carroll. “Are Special Districts Strategic Complements or Strategic Substitutes?”
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Christopher B. Goodman and Suzanne M. Leland. “What Lies Beneath these Creatures of the State: Understanding the Birth and Death of U.S. Local Governments”
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Christopher B. Goodman. “Patterns in Special District Creation and Dissolution”
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Christopher B. Goodman and Megan E. Hatch. “State Legislative Ideology & the Preemption of City Ordinances: The Case of Worker Rights Laws”
Current courses
Public Service Performance II: Management & Data Analysis
Public Revenue Analysis & Financial Management
Local Government Administration