Does Your Government Measure Up?

William D. Coplin is professor of public affairs and director of the Public Affairs Program of the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. Carol Dwyer is Director of the Community Benchmarks Program of the Maxwell School.

• - Checklists with 60 Bare Essentials for good governance in nine areas; - More than 255 guidelines found in Beyond Bare Essentials; - Simple illustrations of how you can use benchmarking to make decisions; - User-ready surveys to obtain citizen feedback;