2003 Governing Greater Boston: Meeting the Needs of the Regions's People

At a time of historic budget deficits and growing human needs, policymaking poses enormous challenges to officials in Massachusetts and Greater Boston. Dozens of basic questions confront the state and region.

• How can the structures of governance be improved to provide more efficient and effective policy?
• How can civic leaders mobilize groups across the region to demand more of - and give more to - the public sector?
• How does the region's growing diversity affect its ability to assimilate its people - and provide good services for all of them?
• How does Greater Boston make the transition from welfare to a work-based assistance program - and reach people outside the world of work and training, especially children?
• What strategies offer the best hope for improving public education?
• How can the state and region offer better health care for more people at a time of historic industry inflation?
• What are the causes of - and responses to - the fiscal crises of state and local governments?

The Governing Greater Boston Series offers a complete oveview and analysis of these and other issues facing the state and region. Published by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the series can be purchased for $20 (discounts available for students and public servants). To receive more information about ordering a copy for yourself or your organization, send an email including your contact information to Hollis Publishing or call 800-635-6302. A few free copies are also available at the Rappaport Institute offices at the Taubman Building, 3rd floor room 355, 15 Eliot Street at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

2003 Edition of Governing Greater Boston

• Governing Greater Boston: Meeting the Needs of the Region's People (entire book-length report)
• Chapter 1 - Governing Greater Boston: Fragmented Bodies, Fragmented Policies
• Chapter 2 - Connecting the Region With Its People: Civic Leadership in Greater Boston
• Chapter 3 - The New Face of Greater Boston: Meeting the Needs of Immigrants
• Chapter 4 - The Zone of Vulnerability: Poor and Working Class Families in Greater Boston
• Chapter 5 - Creating Communities of Learning: Education in Greater Boston
• Chapter 6 - Health Care at the Crossroads: A Guide for the Perplexed
• Chapter 7 - Aligning Resources, Needs and Wants: Public Budgeting and Management in Greater Boston
• Preface
• Index and Footnotes