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Police Reform and the Dismantling of Legal Estrangement

May 16, 2017

Yale Law Journal | By Monica C. Bell, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy and a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. Bell joins the faculty of Yale Law School as Associate Professor of Law in fall 2017. Read more about Monica Bell's work at her homepage: ​​​​​
scholar.harvard.edu/bell



Paying for Outcomes: Beyond the Social Impact Bond Buzz

October 28, 2016

Inside Story (Australia) | By Matt Tyler (MPP '17) and Ben Stephens (MPP '17). Social impact bonds’ most valuable contribution could be to support the expansion of pay-for-success contracting to dramatically improve the lives of vulnerable Australians, write Tyler and Stephens.



Obamacare's Surprising New Ally: The Chamber of Commerce

May 7, 2014

Talking Points Memo | by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy)



Nudge Yields Big Results with Subtle Changes

February 15, 2016

WUTC—Start it Up [audio: 29 min] | Interview with Elizabeth Linos, Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy and a member of the Behavioral Insights Team. Linos explains how the Behavioral Insights Team is employing "nudge theory" in cities across the US to modify behaviors and create positive change—from increasing the diversity of police departments to getting delinquent taxpayers to willingly ante up... Read more about Nudge Yields Big Results with Subtle Changes



No One Should Have to Walk 21 Miles to Work

February 5, 2015

The New Republic | By Nathan J. Robinson, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy



New evidence shows election officials are biased against Latino voters

February 18, 2015

Washington Post | By Ariel White (Ph.D. candidate in Government), Noah Nathan, and Julie Faller



Monica Bell guests on Undisclosed

December 22, 2016

Undisclosed (S2, Addendum 21) | Monica Bell, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, talks class, race, and geography and how these shape trust/distrust in the criminal justice system. On the criminal justice podcast Undisclosed. Learn more about Monica Bell's research at her homepage: scholar.harvard.edu/bell 



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."



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.



Loi Sapin 2 : moderniser l'économie, comment l'entendez-vous?

June 11, 2016

France Culture | Alexandra Roulet, Ph.D. candidate in Economics, guests on 'L'Economie en questions' to discuss France's proposed Sapin 2 Law, which seeks tightened anti-corruption measures to enhance transparency and modernization of the economy. [Audio, in French, 29 minutes].

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