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What Marco Rubio gets right — and wrong — about the decline of American investment

May 31, 2019

Washington Post
By Lawrence H. Summers and Anna Stansbury. Senator Rubio raises an important issue, Summers and Stansbury write, but they disagree with the diagnosis. Anna Stansbury is a Stone PhD Scholar and PhD candidate in Economics at Harvard.



What Happens When Low-Income Mothers Call the Police

March 10, 2016

Talk Poverty | By Monica Bell, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy and a Research Associate at the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. An academic article based on this research is forthcoming in Law & Society Review.



What happens to police departments that collect more fines? They solve fewer crimes.

September 24, 2018

Washington Post | By Rebecca Goldstein, Michael Sances, and Hye Young You PhD 2014. Based on the authors' research, "Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service," forthcoming in Urban Affairs Review.

Rebecca Goldstein is a PhD candidate in Government and a Malcolm Hewitt Wiener PhD Scholar in Poverty and Justice. Hye Young You received her PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard and is now Assistant Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University.

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What can we do to prevent the next killing?

July 8, 2016

Urban Institute—Urban Wire | By Steven Brown, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and an affiliated scholar with the Urban Institute.



What Can Hurricanes Teach Us About Mobility?

August 25, 2014

Pacific Standard | by Asad L. Asad (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology)



Want to Boost Inequality? Tackle Productivity

July 23, 2019

Bloomberg Opinion | By Anna Stansbury, PhD candidate in Economics and a Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration.



Unless the Democrats Run Sanders, a Trump Nomination Means a Trump Presidency

February 23, 2016

Current Affairs | By Nathan J. Robinson, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy.



Trumpism as a Transatlantic Phenomenon

March 8, 2016

The American Prospect | By Charlotte Cavaillé (Ph.D. '14), Noam Gidron (Ph.D. candidate in Government), and Peter A. Hall (Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies). Cavaillé is presently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. She joins the Georgetown University faculty in July.



Trump will win or lose. Either way, the Koch network will shape the Republican Party

February 29, 2016

Washington Post | Alexander Hertel Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) and Theda Skocpol (Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology) are interviewed about their research on how Koch brothers-funded organizations have been changing the Republican Party in profound ways. Interviewed by political scientist Henry Farrell of George Washington University.



Trump and Sanders aren't blazing new trails. Populism has run through U.S. politics for a very long time.

April 28, 2016

Washington Post | By Bart Bonikowski, Assistant Professor of Sociology, and Noam Gidron, Ph.D. candidate in Government.

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