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"This pioneering handbook shows how microdata can be used to give ... granular and real insights into how states work."

— Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University, author of State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

“The most comprehensive work on practically building government administration I have ever seen."

— Francisco Gaetani, Special Secretary for State Transformation, Government of Brazil

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Governments across the world make thousands of personnel management decisions, procure millions of goods and services, and execute billions of processes each day. They are data rich.  And yet, there is little systematic practice to-date which capitalizes on this data to make public administrations work better. This means that governments are missing out on data insights to save billions in procurement expenditures, recruit better talent into government, and identify sources of corruption, to name just a few.

The Government Analytics Handbook seeks to change that. It presents frontier evidence and practitioner insights on how to leverage data to make governments work better. Covering a range of microdata sources—such as administrative data and public servant surveys—as well as tools and resources for undertaking the analytics, it transforms the ability of governments to take a data-informed approach to diagnose and Strengthen how public organizations work.

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• Firms are capitalizing on innovations in data science at an unprecedented scale to Strengthen their internal operations, but many governments are lacking behind. This book introduces government analytics – how governments can repurpose their data and records to diagnose public administration and boost public sector productivity.
• A wealth of approaches and data sources are available to governments for analytics to identify evidence-based improvements. Many of these approaches rely on data that governments already collect as part of their day-to-day operations
• Government analytics can be undertaken with at least three types of data: administrative data from government entities (such as procurement data); surveys of public servants; and external assessments (such as household surveys or anthropological assessments).
• Which data source is appropriate for analytics depends on what aspect of public administration an organization is seeking to diagnose and improve. Some data sources are better suited to assessing inputs into public administration, such as payroll data assessing the costs of different personnel. Some data sources are better suited to assessing the processes, practices, and cultures that convert inputs into outputs, such as surveys of public servants assessing perceptions of management in government. And some data sources are better suited to assessing the outputs and outcomes of public administration, such as citizen satisfaction surveys.
• Frontier government analytics integrates different data sources and makes insights accessible to managers across government organizations. For instance, dashboards integrating data sources and updating in real time can provide managers with insights into staffing issues, quality of management, task completion rates and case productivity, among many. Comparative data can allow benchmarking with other government organizations, or where appropriate, other countries. The result is a transformational change, with managers integrating analytic insights with their tacit understanding of their organization to drive continuous public administration improvement.
• Governments can advance government analytics by creating government analytics units at the center of government and within each major organization. Centralized units enable economies of scale in analytics, a common data architecture and government-wide benchmarking. Units within organizations can complement central analytics by helping interpret analytics for their organization, and adapting analytics tools to particular organizational needs.

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‘[The book] examines modern equity's impact on both private and public administration. Thirteen essays and accompanying commentaries - composed by scholars, practitioners, and jurists from across the former British Empire - reveal modern equity's distinguishing characteristic: its 'facilitative nature' … All told, Equity and Administration offers something for everyone: for fiduciaries and commissioners alike, equity has a role to play.’

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'This book is a treat for those interested in what equity means, whether the academic or practitioner. … This perspective on the role of equity is an important one, not least because of its resonance with the practical role that equity plays in the administration of funds, a role that those of us who practice in the fields of trust and fiduciary law take as our bedrock.'

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What’s been labeled an epidemic of “book banning” is actually an epidemic of sexually explicit materials getting into American school libraries, witnesses at a House hearing say.

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a subcommittee hearing on Thursday morning discussing the prevalence of explicit content in school libraries.

Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., explained why the hearing was necessary.

“Some of my Democrat colleagues will inevitably accuse Republicans of engaging in a widespread campaign to ‘ban’ books because of racial animus or prejudice against LGBT students,” Bean said in his opening statement. “However, none of the evidence suggests books are being removed for any reason other than inappropriate, explicit content.”

Bean said that the truth is that the books that have been called into question are so obscene that reading passages from them has led to adults being censored in adult forums. 

He cited two explicit books in particular.

“School Board officials in Clay County, Florida, had to cut a father’s microphone for reading ‘Lucky’ for fear that the explicit passages would violate FCC laws and regulations, since the School Board meeting was being televised,” Bean said. “Late-night television refused to air an ad featuring language from ‘Gender Queer.’”

Bean said that this is an issue that reaches the federal level because the Biden administration is trying to deprive states and local districts of the right to determine what’s appropriate or inappropriate for their school library shelves.

“President [Joe] Biden appointed a book-review czar to monitor the actions of local school boards and potentially penalize them for simply reviewing books. I see this as a dangerous step and a violation of federalist principles,” he said.

He said that the hearing was meant to find out “how to best empower parents to be the greatest possible advocate for their child’s education.”

Lindsey Smith, chair of the Montgomery County, Maryland, chapter of Moms for Liberty, addressed issues she has with explicit content in her son’s school library.

“How did we get from protecting our children to the argument of ‘stop book banning?” she asked. “This is not a case of heterosexual versus LGBT+, nor is this a political issue, or as many would call it ‘book banning.’ This is about the innocence and protection of our children.”

Smith said that parents should expect that if their children go into the home of another person, they shouldn’t expect the children to have easy access to pornography. However, she said, that’s essentially what’s being demanded by proponents of keeping the explicit materials in school libraries.

Smith explained what she’d seen in school libraries was “appalling.” She said that sexually explicit materials were frequently accessible to children age 3 and older.

“One example is an innocent-looking book with bright colors and a puppy dog on the front,” she began. “To a 3-year-old, this is appealing to them. The language of this book is far from appropriate. In the ‘hide and find’ glossary, three- to four-year-olds are encouraged to find images of leather, a drag queen, and underwear.”

The Maryland mom said that when her 3-year-old son brought the book home from class and found that it was being used as curriculum, she began asking questions and speaking up.

That book, she said, was approved by a committee not known to the public.

Another book that was brought to her attention was “Gender Queer.” She said the book, which was available in school libraries, graphically depicts sex acts.

One teacher requested eight copies for his class and media center, she said.

Smith said that these explicit books are a violation of indecency and obscenity laws.

“’Gender Queer’ is just one of the many examples that parent groups and so-called book banners actually are speaking up against,” she said. “The sexually explicit and detailed content does not belong in our schools, and we are here asking you to hold [to] the laws and policies that were created on the local level.”

To prevent such material from getting into school libraries, she suggested that parent representatives be on the committees that review and select books.

Max Eden, a research fellow for the American Enterprise Institute, spoke about how left-wing media distort language to create the perception that there is an epidemic of “book banning.”

He cited an article he co-authored for The Daily Signal, in which he sought to find out how many books on a list created by PEN America, a left-wing advocacy group, were actually “banned.” 

“Given that most English-language speakers understand the word ‘ban’ to mean ‘made unavailable,’ we conducted a study to determine how many of the 2,532 books that PEN America alleged were ‘banned’ were actually still present in school libraries,” Eden wrote in early October. “The answer: About three-fourths of them.”

As far as the books that were “banned,” he wrote that there was a common theme.

“All 10 of the books we found that were actually removed most often contained disturbingly explicit passages about sex,” Eden wrote. The list included the aforementioned “Gender Queer.”

Eden said that the Biden administration’s Department of Education Office of Civil Rights is investigating and threatening to withdraw funding from school districts that “even think about removing these books.”

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., a former school board member, said there’s been an “erosion” of public schools as an institution.

Grijalva said that the issue is that there is an increasing trend of trying to “control what people read and don’t read.”

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