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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."



The stalled, struggling black middle class

February 10, 2016

Urban Institute | By Kreg Steven Brown, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology.



Sizing up the Koch Brothers: Three experts explain their strategy and impact in American politics

February 13, 2016

Salon | Alex Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) is interviewed by Sean McElwee of Demos, along with Brian Schaffner (UMass Amherst) and Heath Brown (City University of New York).



The Costs of Inequality: Education is the one key that rules

February 15, 2016

Harvard Gazette | Featuring Inequality & Social Policy faculty participants Ronald Ferguson, Roland Fryer, Robert Putnam, and Lawrence Katz. Third in a series on what Harvard scholars are doing to understand and find solutions to problems of inequality. This article also appeared at US News and World Report.



Should We Trust Forensic Science?

February 18, 2016

Boston Review | Two forensic experts respond to Nathan J. Robinson, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy, and Robinson replies. Robinson argued in the previous issue of Boston Review that the problems of forensic science constitute an unheralded crisis of criminal justice. 



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.



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



International Learning Communities: What Can Be Learned Across National Boundaries?

February 25, 2016

Education Week | By Amelia Peterson, Ph.D. candidate in Education, and Jal Mehta, Associate Professor of Education.



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.

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