Communicating with Constituents when State Policy and Local Jurisdictions Collide

This is the eleventh paper in NJLM Foundation’s “Friends of Local Government” Policy Paper series.

Written by Patrick Murray,Director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.

Published September 2011.

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Incorporated in 2004, the NJLM Educational Foundation is a non-partisan informational resource for local government that offers timely research and a proactive approach to resolving the complex issues affecting New Jersey’s diverse communities. The Foundation provides a forum within which municipal officials, academics, government officials, business leaders, and other stakeholders can share their visions of New Jersey; their hopes for the future of public policy; and their solutions to the compelling challenges facing the State.

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