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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
WIne Turbines
Energy and
Environment
Laughing Work Colleagues
Diversity and
Representation
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Technology and
Innovation

All Research

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Academic Papers

Are Subnational Policymakers' Policy Preferences Nationalized? Evidence from Surveys of Township, Municipal, County, and State Officials

May 26, 2022
By Nathan Lee, Michelangelo Landgrave, and Kirk Bansak. Published in Legislative Studies Quarterly.
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Research Brief

Dismal levels of media coverage of local government board meetings

April 30, 2022
Nearly half of all local governing board meetings in the United States receive no journalistic coverage.
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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 26, 2022
By Adam Seth Levine. Published in Issues in Science and Technology.
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