City Governance and Policy Practice

UEI is proud to announce its second established practice at our think tank, the City Governance and Policy (CGP) Practice.

City Governance and Policy Practice
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UEI is proud to announce its second established practice at our think tank, the City Governance and Policy (CGP) Practice. The second of its kind at UEI, this practice will feature critical research, scholarship, writing, policy work, and direct engagement with the changing landscape of city governance, the civil service, beaurocacy, legislation, the Office of the Mayor, and funding in New York City and cities along the east coast.

Leadership

The CGP Practice is spearheaded by engaged scholars and policy researchers from UEI. Their existing work captures critical discussions about New York City governance and policymaking:

Co-Director — Ishaan Barrett, Founding President and Managing Partner (specialties: the civil service; funding and city council oversight; corruption and electoral politics; the Office of the Mayor)

Co-Director — Rohit Barrett, Junior Partner (specialities: data analytics and machine learning; economic policy; energy, climate change, and sustainability studies).


Practice Initiatives

Ongoing projects developed by the CGP Practice broken down by issue area, geography, and focus.

CGP Research and Working Papers

TO BE RELEASED: DOI and anti-corruption stopgaps in the New York City Office of the Mayor from 2018 through 2024; studying sentiment analysis, discourse production, and intentionality through LLMs and large data models.

Radically Considering Spatial Justice: Public Space, Inclusivity, and Ethical Social Architecture
The concept of spatial justice emerges as a central component of justice as a contemporary topic; in this way, the very bedrock of justice itself becomes more dynamic and flexible to the changing conditions of our social world.

Engaged Scholarship

Work published by practice directors and contributors at other outlets and publications will be included here.

Adams, Trump, and the Fall of Gotham. — Columbia Political Review
The recent decline of America’s national image, accelerated by Trump’s sweeping cuts to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), places the country well behind its international peers. In truth, I was half convinced that there was no way things could possibly get worse. Th