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RESEARCH
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CivicPulse is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization generating data and insights about a wide range of issues faced by local and state governments in the United States. Our nationally representative survey panels include elected officials, department heads, and civil service staff representing town, city, county, and state governments across America.

Research Programs

While CivicPulse's surveys and analyses cover a wide range of topics, we bring particular attention to four research programs. For a fuller list of topics CivicPulse has previously covered, please see the topics dropdown in the “All Research” section below.

Election Day
Democracy and
Elections
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Energy and
Environment
Laughing Work Colleagues
Diversity and
Representation
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Technology and
Innovation

All Research

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Research Brief

Many local governments support more transparency in reporting business development incentives

March 25, 2022
Nearly half of local governments do not publicly report incentives offered to businesses, but many support increasing transparency efforts.
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Research Report

Women Representation Among Top Appointed Officials in Local Government

March 16, 2022
New data on the gender composition of local government top appointed officials reveals fewer than one in three local leaders are women.
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Academic Papers

Unmet Desire

February 27, 2022
By Adam Seth Levine. Published in Issues in Science and Technology.
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Research Brief

Where are local governments prioritizing their elders?

February 25, 2022
There are regional differences in the degree to which local policymakers report prioritizing the needs of older Americans.
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Research Brief

Is honesty the best policy? How local policymakers communicate Covid risks

January 31, 2022
Local policymakers think it is more acceptable to overstate than understate Covid risks, but most are committed to the unvarnished truth.
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