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Can Economic Policy Solve Economic Problems?

December 21, 2017

Project Syndicate | By Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.



Can Macron Pull It Off?

May 9, 2017

Project Syndicate | By Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School.



Can Marches Become a Movement?

February 2, 2017

Democracy | The esteemed Theda Skocpol lays out the lessons the Tea Party movement holds for the left today. Interview with Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. Skocpol is co-author with Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15) of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Oxford University Press, 2012).



Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts?

January 28, 2016

Harvard EdCast [audio: 10:33 min] | David Deming (Ph.D. '10 and faculty) and Beth Schueler (Ed.D. candidate) reflect on lessons learned from the state's successful school takeover in Lawrence, MA. Read the research by Beth Schueler, Joshua S. Goodman (HKS faculty), and David Deming in their just released NBER Working Paper.



Can US Elections Be Rigged?

November 2, 2016

Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast | Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, offers an historical perspective to modern worries about rigged elections and weighs the prevention of voter fraud against the risk of voter suppression.



Capital Hill Briefing on American Families: The State of the Working Class

February 12, 2016

C-SPAN [video] | Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, participated in a briefing on U.S. working class families with Andrew Cherlin (Johns Hopkins), Ron Haskins (Brookings Institution), Sara McLanahan (Princeton). Sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.



Capitalism for the Rest of Us

July 17, 2015

The New York Times | By Joseph R. Blasi (Rutgers), Douglas L. Kruse (Rutgers), and Richard B. Freeman



Catching Up with Science: Rethinking How our Criminal Justice System Responds to Young Adults

October 9, 2015

William T. Grant Foundation | By Vincent Schiraldi and Bruce Western, Senior Research Fellow and Faculty Chair, respectively, of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Malcolm Wiener Center.



Causal Analysis of Non-Experimental Data

October 26, 2015

Serious Science | Sociologist Christopher Winship discusses how experimental thinking  can be applied in contexts where experiments are not possible. Part of Serious Science's online project to spread scientific ideas via conversations with scientists.



Challenges in Measuring Regulatory Capture

June 22, 2016

RegBlog | By Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government. "An executive order setting out clear criteria by which to measure regulatory capture would help provide much needed clarity and guidance for agencies and those tasked with assessing their behavior," writes Carpenter. This essay is part of a 15-part series, Rooting Out Regulatory Capture.

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