Steven M. Maser is Professor of Public Policy and Public Management at Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management in Oregon. He has published 30 articles on the topics of government regulation of business, municipal charters, constitutions, negotiation, conflict management, and public management. He teaches MBA-level courses on public policy, public management, negotiation, and organizational conflict management.

Jeff Tryens, the former director of the Oregon Progress Board, conducted a survey for Metro, which is Portland, Oregon’s area regional government, to find out.  He surveyed over two dozen existing programs to identify best practices in developing and using community-level indicator systems to “inform, engage, intervene, or fund” efforts to jointly improve the results communities (not

Dr. Moseley shows how via a series of case studies examining the experiences of the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S.