Good government organizations in the United States
The United States has a history of citizen, nonprofit, and other non-partisan groups advocating good government that reaches back to the late 19th- to early 20th-century Progressive Era and the development of governmental professional associations in the early part of the 20th century, such as the American Public Human Services Association and the International City/County Management Association. Many of these groups had their genesis at the Public Administration Center at 1313 East 60th Street, at the University of Chicago.
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