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Voting and Elections:

2014 Election Outcomes Are In: Rigged Redistricting System Will Re-Elect Dozens of Incumbents Before a Single Vote is Cast

A Broken Promise: Agency-Based Voter Registration in New York City 

Rigged to Maintain Power: How NYS’ 2012 Redistricting Protected Incumbents and Continued Majority Party Control

Fair Elections for New York State – 2014 Update: How Public Matching Creates Greater Voter Choice and Competition

Hidden from View: The Undisclosed Campaign Activities of Political Clubs in New York

2012 Election Analysis: How Gerrymandering Skews Party Representation and Creates Uncontested Elections

Fair Elections for New York State: How Public Matching Creates Greater Voter Choice and Competition

ReShaping New York: Ending the Rigged Practice of Partisan Gerrymandering with and Impartial and Independent Redistricting Process (report body)

ReShaping New York: Executive Summary

ReShaping New York: Appendices

Circumventing Democracy: The Flawed Process for Filling Vacancies in State Government, 2011 Update

Examining Turnover in the New York State Legislature: 2009-2010 Update

CU Analysis of Online Sample Ballot Practices in New York State County Boards of Election

Voter Turnout Analysis: Nonpartisan City Council Special Elections Have a Higher Turnout than Partisan State Legislative Special Elections

2010 City Charter Revision Recommendations: Increasing Avenues for Governing and Elections in New York City

Executive Summary and List of Recommendations

EXAMINING TURNOVER IN THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE: Ethical Misconduct Increasingly the Cause for Legislators Leaving

Money in Politics:

Citizens Union Report and Recommendations to the 2011 City Lobbying Commission

Corruption:

Spending in the Shadows: Nonspecific Funding in the FY 2018 Enacted New York State Executive Budget

Spending in the Shadows: Nonspecific Funding in the FY 2018 New York State Executive Budget

Spending in the Shadows: Nonspecific Funding in the FY 2017 New York State Enacted Budget

Spending in the Shadows: Discretionary Funding in the NYS Budget – FY 2017 Executive Budget Update

Spending in the Shadows: Discretionary Funding in the NYS Budget – FY 2014-2016 Update

Accompanying data

April 2015 Addendum – Final Budget

Accompanying data – Addendum

Lump Sum Funds

Community Projects Fund

Spending in the Shadows: Discretionary Funding in the NYS Budget

Open Government:

NYU Capstone Report – Tensions, Trends and Trade-offs: Recommendations Toward an Equitable, Efficient and Effective New York City Civil Service System

Diminished Accountability: How Discipline for Misconduct is Downgraded by the NYPD

A New Transparency for New York State: Using the Explosion of Information Technology to Open NY Government (Citizens Union, Common Cause, LWVNY, NYPIRG and Reinvent Albany)

IMPROVING MAYORAL CONTROL: Strengthening Accountability, Transparency and Parental Participation in Public Education

NEW YORK NEEDS ELECTION REFORM NOW: From Industrial Age Patronage to Information Age Accountability | Executive Summary and Recommendations | Detailed Recommendations

Your Tax Dollars at Work: City Council Spending on Advertisements | Addendum 1Addendum 2Addendum 3

Project Report: 2006 Poll Worker Recruitment Program

Principles of Council Reform: Ideas for a More Democratic and Effective City Council

Balance of Powers:

Circumventing Democracy: The Flawed System for Filling Vacancies for Elected Office in New York

Government Spending:

Creating a More Objective and Equitable Discretionary Funding Process in New York City

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