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• Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
• Mackinac Center for Public Policy
• Michigan State University, Institute for Public Policy & Social Research
• The University of Michigan, The Institute for Social Research
• The University of Michigan, Program for Research on the Information Economy
• The University of Michigan, School of Public Policy
• The University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
• Public Policy Associates
• Public Sector Consultants
• Southeast Michigan Council of Governments

• Michigan the "Smart State" First in the 21st Century

• Looking at Limits for Urban Sprawl, Detroit Free Press, March 11, 1999

• The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
• Metro Web page in Portland, OR
• Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities
• Reason Public Policy Institute, Urban Futures Program
• Cascade Policy Institute
• Sustainable Communities Network
• Eight Mile Boulevard Association
• Detroit News

• Michigan In Brief
• Michigan Information Technology Commission, cyber-state.org
• Michigan's State Technology Plan (1998)

• The Center for Creative Leadership
• The Institute for Educational Leadership

• Books:
  • Leading Business Teams: How Teams Can Use Technology and Group Process Tools to Enhance Performance, Robert Johansen, et. al., Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, MA, 1991
    ISBN: 0-201-52829-0
  • Tools for Virtual Teams: A Team Fitness Companion, Jane E. Henry, Ph.D. and Meg Hartzler, American Society for Quality, Quality Press, Milwaukee, WI, 1998
    ISBN: 0-87389-381-6
    
    
• Virtual Team Web Sites:
  • Virtual Teams
  • Virtual Teams: Managing the On-line Meeting

• Books:
  • Cultural Strategies of Agenda Denial, Edited by Roger W. Cobb & Marc Howard Ross, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1997
    ISBN: 0-7006-0856-7
  • Public Policy Making: Process and Principles, Larry N. Gerston, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, NY, 1997
    ISBN: 0-7656-0080-3
  • Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, Second Edition, John W. Kingdon, HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995
    ISBN: 0-673-52389-6
  • Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision-Making, Deborah Stone, W. W. Norton, NY, 1997
    ISBN: 0-393-96857-x
  • Analysis for Public Decisions, Third Edition, E. S. Quade, A RAND Corporation Research Study, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1989
    ISBN: 0-13-052127-2
  • Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice, Second Edition, David L. Weimer & Aidan R. Vining, Prentice Hall, Jew Jersey, 1992
    ISBN: 0-13-683145-1
  
  
• Web Sites:
  • 'Strategies to Achieve a Common Purpose: Tools for Turning Good Ideas into Good Policies' Policy Exchange, Institute for Educational Leadership

• "Urban Sprawl and the Michigan Landscape: A Market-Oriented Approach," by Samuel R. Staley of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Reason Public Policy Institute
• "Detroit Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability, A Report to the Archdiocese of Detroit," by Myron Orfield

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