Our policy research function is manifested in policy papers stressing that government in Pennsylvania - and government leaders in the Commonwealth - should focus on accountability, efficiency, and responsibility in providing government services and in public service.
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The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy's Mission
The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization that stresses that government in Pennsylvania - and government leaders in the Commonwealth - should focus on accountability, efficiency, and responsibility in providing government services and in public service. The Center places special emphasis on free market principles, the role of servanthood, and the responsibilities of citizenship that form the foundation of our political structure.
Recent Additions to our Policy Papers
The Public Interest Loses Again: A Discouraging Case Study In Subverting Open Government And Sanctioning Secrecy
Much has been written about the vengeful misdeeds that marred and ultimately short-circuited the tenure of former state Attorney General Kathleen Kane. For everyone appalled at her self-inflicted fall, it may be hard to believe another damaging blow to the public interest was delivered after Kane departed office. 2017 marks the 30th anniversary of the […]
Merit Selection Of Judges: A Better Method For Attaining Quality Courts
In the Winter Olympics, champions in a variety of sports are determined by how swiftly they race downhill. Individual performances are amazingly fast, and the difference in winning can be a fraction of a second. In the competition to achieve victory on state government reform, the course runs in the opposite direction – steeply uphill. […]
Biennial Budgeting Is Bipartisan Solution To Annual Impasses
May 23, 2016 – By Lt. Governor Mike Stack and State Senator Ryan Aument Biennial budgeting is bipartisan solution to annual impasses To the frustration of many Pennsylvanians, the 2015-16 state budget took almost nine months to complete. While this was the longest budget impasse in our commonwealth’s history, it certainly was not the first […]
Hospital Report Update 2017
Taking The Temperature Of Pennsylvania’s Hospitals & Healthsystems: Positive – Encouraging If Uneven Growth, And Negative – Troubling State Policy Trends Hospital Report Update 2017