Quality of Rhode Island Governance

2023

The Rhode Island Survey Initiative, University of Rhode Island Harrington School for Communication and Media, Oct. 19, 2023. 

Jones, Jeffrey, Americans Trust Local Government Most, Congress Least, Gallup, Oct. 13, 2023

2022

Americans’ Views of Government: Decades of Distrust, Enduring Support for Its Role, Chapter 4, Pew Research Center, June 6, 2022.

2014

O’Neill, Ed, Shocking 52% of Assembly unopposed, Providence Journal, September 21, 2014.

Riffkin, Rebecca, Americans Say Federal Gov’t Wastes 51 Cents on the Dollar, Gallup Poll, September 17, 2014.

Renn, Aaron M., The Bluest State, City Journal, Spring 2014.  For a critique of Renn, see Frymaster, Rhode Island Dead, RIFuture.org, June 10, 2014.

Fitzpatrick, Ed, Where R.I. ranks on the national corruption scale/Poll, Providence Journal, June 9, 2014.

Emery, C. Eugene, Jr.,  Candidates for governor discuss R.I.’s reputation for secrecy, cronyism / Video, Providence Journal, May 24, 2014.

Liu, C. and Mikesell, J. L. (May/June 2014), The Impact of Public Officials’ Corruption on the Size and Allocation of U.S. State Spending. Public Administration Review, 74: 346–359.  For a summary, see Kille, Leighton Walter, The impact of public officials’ corruption on the size and allocation of U.S. state spending, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, May 16, 2014.

Edgar, Randal, Public has low opinion of R.I.’s elected state leaders, poll finds, Providence Journal, March 4, 2014.

2011

Jones, Jeffrey, Americans Say Federal Gov’t Wastes Over Half of Every Dollar, Gallup Poll, September 19, 2011.  The poll asks Americans how much of every dollar the Federal and their own state government wastes.  The figure is 51% for Federal and 42% for state.  Note that the figures are not broken down by state.

2010

Cook, Nancy, Is Rhode Island the Most Corrupt State? Newsweek, March 13, 2010.

For a different take, see: Marchetti, Lauren, How Corrupt is Rhode Island? GoLocalProv, September 5, 2011.

2008

Marsh, Bill, Illinois Is Trying. It Really Is. But the Most Corrupt State Is Actually . . ., New York Times, December 13, 2008.

Marsh, Bill, A Survey of Journalists: Reporters’ scores of perceived state corruptionNew York Times, December 14, 2008.

2003

Boylan, R. T. and C. X. Long (2003). “Measuring public corruption in the American states: A survey of state house reporters.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 3(4): 420-438.