NGA Center for Best Practices
The NGA Center for Best Practices teams and divisions develop innovative solutions to today’s most pressing public policy challenges. The center is the only research and development firm that directly serves the nation’s Governors.
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Disagree Better
Americans need to disagree better. And by that we don’t mean that we need to be nicer to each other, although that’s helpful. We need to learn to disagree in a way that allows us to find solutions and solve problems instead of endlessly bickering.
The “exhausted majority” of Americans want this, and the science is clear about interventions that reduce polarization. As doers and builders, Governors are in a unique position to model what healthy conflict looks like.
Governor Spencer Cox’s Disagree Better NGA Chair’s initiative looks at the problems of polarization, elevates the solutions that groups around the country are already implementing, and features Governors showing what disagreeing better looks like. Through public debates, service projects, public service announcements and a variety of other tactics, Americans will see a more positive and optimistic way of working through our problems.
Program Areas
Center for Best Practices Library
State Approaches to Implementing Community-Based Alternatives to Incarceration for Youth Involved in the Justice System
2017 Policy Institute for Governors’ Human Services Advisors
State Strategies for Venture Capital and Rural Development
Developing Talent in Rural America through Work-based Learning Experiences
How Maryland Policymakers Are Working Together to Improve School Principal Quality
Transportation Electrification Webinar Training Series
Experts Roundtable on Creating “Smart States” Initiative
Rural Health Learning Collaborative: Improving Access to Behavioral Health Care in Rural Areas
2017 Water Policy Institute
Maryland Retreat on Incentivizing State Agencies to Pursue Energy Efficiency
2017 Health Policy Advisor Institute
2017 Policy Institute for Governors’ Economic Advisors
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