John Buntin

Recent Articles

• Chicago Fights Gang Violence with Facebook
• Oct 1, 2013
• After experiencing a homicide rate that earned it international attention last year, Chicago is upending the traditional style of policing and using social networks to rank people’s likelihood of killing and being killed.
• 2 Comments

• 10 Questions with One of Obamacare's Architects
• Sep 23, 2013
• On the eve of the implementation of one of Obamacare’s most significant provisions, Governing spoke to Harvard economist David Cutler.
• 7 Comments

• Putting Psychology to Work in the Public Sector
• Sep 4, 2013
• Three new books offer public officials insights into how people make judgments — and how institutions can make better decisions.
• 3 Comments

• California Republicans Try to Reenergize the GOP
• Sep 1, 2013
• The California Republican Party’s willingness to embrace unconventional leadership may provide insights into what the GOP will need to do to win elections nationally in the coming era of the white minority.
• 12 Comments

• Should Local Government Be Run Like Silicon Valley?
• Mar 29, 2013
• Cities are contracting with Code for America -- what some call “the Peace Corps for geeks” -- in an effort to seed Silicon Valley virtues in local government.
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• The Power and Danger of Setting Extreme Goals
• Feb 28, 2013
• Extreme goals are ambitious and attention grabbing. They also often seem impossible -- and that can be a problem.
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• Milwaukee Police Give 911 a Facelift
• Sep 28, 2012
• Milwaukee has overhauled how it responds to serious crimes -- but not without criticism. Are the risks of challenging policing's status quo worth the rewards?
• 2 Comments

• Cathy Lanier Changes Policing in D.C. and Maybe Nation
• Jun 29, 2012
• The police chief's rejection of zero-tolerance policing that’s driven urban crime fighting for a generation may change the future of public safety in America.
• 18 Comments

• Neighborhood Watch
• Jun 26, 2012
• Rob Sampson’s Great American City points the way toward a new understanding of how cities function.
• 1 Comments

• Can Universal Health Care Work Without a Mandate?
• May 31, 2012
• President Barack Obama and the 26 states trying to overturn his federal health reform law say no, but some states have some real-world experience that could answer that question.

• Kitzhaber: Three-Time Governor Turning Oregon’s Tide
• Apr 30, 2012
• John Kitzhaber once called Oregon “ungovernable.” Now, he’s forging bipartisan alliances that are making it one of the best-governed states in the nation.
• 5 Comments

• Ex-Police Chief William Bratton Discusses Government Collaboration in New Book
• Mar 30, 2012
• In Collaborate or Perish!, William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School senior researcher Zachary Tumin tell governments how they can work together more often and more effectively.
• 3 Comments

• Connecticut Moves Away from Medicaid Managed Care
• Feb 28, 2012
• Connecticut’s Rod Bremby is finding novel ways to connect health and human services.
• 1 Comments

• How Game Theory is Reinventing Crime Fighting
• Jan 31, 2012
• Elected officials across the nation from both political parties have begun to examine ways to replace a tough corrections policy with a smart one.
• 2 Comments

• Managing Care without Managed Care
• Jan 24, 2012
• North Carolina is achieving big savings with a very different approach.