The National Governors Association Center For Best Practices (NGA Center)
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) develops solutions to public policy challenges for United States governors. Since 2008, the NGA Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) has been reviewing state government redesign effort as states recover from the economic downturn. Some of these efforts have been described in other NGA publications, namely, The Big Reset: State Government After the Great Recession (February 2010) and again in State Government Redesign Efforts 2009 and 2010 (October 2010).
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