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Employer Political Coercion: A Growing Threat

November 23, 2015

The American Prospect | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy. Appears in fall 2015 print edition. 




Business at the Ballot Box

November 4, 2015

No Jargon [Podcast—Ep. 5] | Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy, discusses his research in this new Scholars Strategy Network podcast. No Jargon presents interviews with top university scholars on the politics, policy problems, and social issues facing the nation. Subscribe  in iTunes, or listen to individual episodes at the SSN website.



Forensic Pseudoscience: The Unheralded Crisis of Criminal Justice

November 16, 2015

Boston Review | By Nathan J. Robinson, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy.  
One of The Aspen Institute's 'Five Best Ideas of the Day'.




Ted Cruz cited this research when he said most violent criminals are Democrats. Now the researchers say he's wrong.

December 2, 2015

Washington Post | By Marc Meredith (University of Pennsylvania) and Michael Morse (Ph.D. student in Government). Meredith and Morse, authors of the 2014 paper cited by Cruz, detail how their research does not support his claim. Also noted in their reply: research by Vesla Weaver (Ph.D. '07, now Yale University) and Traci Burch (Ph.D. '07, now Northwestern University).



How Colleges Fail Poor Students

January 18, 2016

Minnesota Public Radio—MPR News with Kerri Miller | Anthony Abraham Jack (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology) guests to discuss what his dissertation research shows [audio 40 min].



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.



Are Conservative Groups Better Than Their Liberal Equivalents At Shaping Legislation?

January 13, 2016

Wisconsin Public Radio—The Kathleen Dunn Show | Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) guests. [audio: 50 min].



Sociology's Truth? W.E.B. Du Bois and the Origins of Sociology

February 9, 2016

Los Angeles Review of Books | By Monica Bell, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. Reviewing Aldon Morris's The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, Bell argues Morris evokes the challenges of black and activism-oriented scholars today.



Mexico's Next Big Chance to Tackle Corruption

February 8, 2016

America's Quarterly | By Viridiana Rios.  Rios (Ph.D. '13), now a research fellow at the Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., writes that Mexico's citizen initiative, Ley 3de3, represents the first time in Mexico's history that civil society has come together to take legislative processes against corruption into their own hands. Mexico's civil society, she argues, is leading the fight against corruption not by choice, but by necessity.



Michael Brown, Ferguson, and why race matters for policy research

February 9, 2016

Urban Institute | By Steven Brown, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and an affiliated scholar and contributor to the Inequality and Mobility Initiative at the Urban Institute. "We cannot fully put an end to unequal opportunities until we better understand and address how race shapes those factors."

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