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GOOD GOVERNMENT RESEARCH STUDIES
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The Citizen Advocacy Center is pleased to make these studies, related to open and ethical government in Illinois with evidence based reform recommendations, available as a free resource for the public.  Click on the study title link to open. Funding generously provided by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
  • Inspectors General and Government Corruption: A Guide to Best Practices and an Assessment of Five Illinois Offices

 Better Government Association (BGA) 

  •  BGA - Alper Services Integrity Index, 2013

Center for Budget and Tax Accountability (CTBA) 

  • A Citizen's Guide to Illinois Budget and Tax System, 2008

Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice

  • Policy Brief: Judicial Recusal

Chicago Ethics Reform Task Force  

  • Report of the Chicago Ethics Reform Task Force: Part 1, April 2012
  • Report of the Chicago Ethics Reform Task Force: Part 2, August 2012

Citizen Advocacy Center 

  • Challenges to Ballot Access and the Challenges Therein,  2013
  • The Goals of Democracy and Those of Economic Development: Bridging the Two while Valuing Public Participation, 2012
  • Illinois Civic Health Index, 2010
  • Accessing Government: How Difficult is It? An Analysis of Open Government Laws in the Midwest, 2008   
  • Municipal Internet Communication, FOIA, and OMA, 2007
  • DeMystifying County Contracting: A Study of DuPage County Procurement, 2003

Common Cause  

  • The Campaign Contributions of The Gambling Industry in Illinois from 2002 to June 2011, 2012

Election Law at Moritz College of Law

  • From Registration to Recounts: The Election Ecosystems of Five Midwestern States, 2007

Illinois Campaign Finance Reform Task Force

  • Public Campaign Financing and Illinois Elections, 2011

Illinois PIRG

  • Picking up the Tab: 2014
  • Picking up the Tab: 2013
  • The Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens: State Budgets Under Pressure from Tax Loophole Abuse, 2013
  • Jobs and TIF: An Analysis of Job Creation and Tax Increment Financing, 2012
  • Following the Money: 2012
  • Cleaning Up Chicago's Tax Increment Financing Program: Rethinking Chicago's Troubled Redevelopment Program, 2012
  • Caution: Red Light Cameras Ahead. The Risk of Privatizing Traffic Law Enforcement and How to Protect the Public, 2011
  • Shining a Light on Tax Increment Financing in Chicago, 2011
  • Following the Money 2011
  • Privatization and the Public Interest: The Need for Transparency and Accountability in Chicago's Public Asset Lease Deals, 2011

Illinois Policy Institute

  • Illinois 102 County Online Transparency Audit, 2013

Institute of Government & Public Affairs at University of Illinois, Champaign

  • Transparency in State Budgets: A search for best Practices, 2011

Midwest Democracy Network 

  • Redistricting and Representation in the Great Lakes Region, 2013

Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University

  • Still the Wild West? A 10-Year Look at Campaign Finance Reform in Illinois, 2003
  • There's Nothing Fair About the Illinois Map: An Examination of the Reapportionment Process in Illinois, 2013

The University of Chicago: Paige A. Epstein

  • Addressing Minority Vote Dilution Through State Voting Rights Acts, 2014

U.S. PIRG

  • Following the Money: 2015
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