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The Center for Public Management

The McCormack Graduate School’s Center for Public Management focuses on issues of immediate concern to Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the New England region. This local and regional focus is a central element of the Institute’s mission, and its most singular contribution.

Through  research and analysis, the Center addresses fiscal and economic development issues, state tax reform, state and local governing capacity, and the problems of metropolitan and New England regionalism.  Center staff  have published major papers and reports on issues as diverse as higher education policy in Massachusetts, and Massachusetts fiscal policy.  In addition, the Center hosts regular conferences and seminars  on such subjects as the fiscal crisis in the New England states, regionalism, future directions for Boston, and “the state of the state.”