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Professors Katherine Levine Einstein and David Glick Fiscal Leadership Summit April 28 2015 Outline Federal fiscal background Survey of Mayors Sources of mayoral policy information First ID: 339772

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City Learning: Where Cities Obtain Their Policy Information

Professors Katherine Levine Einstein and David Glick

Fiscal Leadership Summit

April 28, 2015Slide2

Outline

Federal fiscal background

Survey of Mayors

Sources of mayoral policy informationSlide3

First

Some important acknowledgementsSlide4

Federal Cuts to Cities

Reagan Retrenchment: Federal Funds for Cities 1981-1993 (constant 1993 billions of dollars). Data from the U.S. Conference of Mayors and reproduced from

Eisinger

(1998). Slide5

Decreased Federal Funding: The Case of the CDBGSlide6

Cities’ Response?

In the context of federal government cutbacks and devolution, mayors looking for increasingly innovative policy ideas

But, where do they get their info…Slide7

The IOC Project

Novel, rigorous survey of mayors across a variety of topics

Recruited

mayors from cities of

all

sizes

Nationally representative sample (n

=72)18 cities with population >300,000Slide8

Reliance on Sources of Policy Information

Official and Unofficial Advisors

Other Cities / Mayors

University Researchers/Research CentersSlide9

Learning From Other Cities

Asked for three cities to which they often lookSlide10

Variation in where they look: Partisanship

Democrats

RepublicansSlide11

Variation in where they look: City Size

Big Cities

Small CitiesSlide12

More general findings

Mayors look to cities that are:

Closer

Similar, but, on average, slightly bigger and wealthier

Higher capacity and more successful Slide13

Other sources of variation

Our qualitative interviews

suggest that mayors

learned policies from other cities through:

Public talks

Conferences

Grant competitions Friendship networks Slide14

Information Summary

Looking to other cities is important

Some more than others, but no “dominant” influencers

More to understand, but interesting and thoughtful variation

Mayors noted a wide variety of policies they adopted from other cities