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RESEARCH
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.
All Research
Research Report
Patterns of Local Protest against COVID-19 Restrictions across America
October 20, 2020
CivicPulse, in collaboration with Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, surveyed over 350 heads of local law enforcement agencies to find out where anti-lockdown protests were most common last spring. These findings could help predict where we might see them again this winter.
Research Report
The Role of Software in Local Government
August 26, 2020
In this report, we investigate the role of new software in local government, bringing to bear original data and analysis from a national survey of ten different leadership positions in township, municipality, and county governments all over the United States, including top appointed executives, heads of IT, and heads of 8 different types of departments/functions.
Research Report
Local Government Spending Priorities in the Wake of COVID-19
June 22, 2020
How will COVID-19 affect local government budgets? CivicPulse asks local elected officials to project how spending will change over the next year across twelve different program and functional areas. This CivicPulse Insights report was developed with Power Almanac.
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