with Deanna Malatesta A Cautionary Tale Terre Haute is a mid-sized town on the western border of Indiana. In 2007, it held municipal elections, and voted in a new mayor, Duke Bennett. Bennett had defeated the former mayor, Kevin Burke. Shortly after the election, Burke sued to have Bennett declared ineligible to serve, citing the [...]

Government agencies have partnered with a wide variety of religious philanthropies for many decades, and for most of that time those partnerships have garnered relatively little attention or comment. That state of affairs changed rather abruptly in 1996, with the passage of Section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 [...]

(w/Deanna Malatesta) Section One: Introduction Public administration scholars and schools of public affairs increasingly use the term ‘governance’ to describe the processes they study and teach. Governance—rather than the older word ‘government’—is thought to be a more accurate descriptor of the reality of contemporary state structures, where—among other things—an ever-increasing percentage of the work of [...]

The United States is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world. Although the country is predominantly Christian, doctrinal differences among Christian denominations are often as deep as the differences between Christians and Jews or Muslims. Adherents of virtually every religion on the globe live in the U.S., and recent polls put the [...]