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Solutions to Income Volatility: A Discussion with Elisabeth Jacobs

November 1, 2016

The Aspen Institute | Discussion with Elisabeth Jacobs (Ph.D. '08), Senior Director for Policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her research focuses on economic inequality and mobility, family economic security, poverty, social insurance, and the politics of inequality. Here, she shares insights on how best to help families struggling with income volatility. 



Who’s voting early? Latino turnout is surging, but white turnout is, too.

November 4, 2016

Washington Post | By Bernard L. Fraga (Ph.D '13), Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, and Brian Schaffner, University of Massachusetts Amherst.



In many poor urban neighborhoods, nonprofits are superseding elected politicians as neighborhood representatives

November 7, 2016

LSE US Centre | By Jeremy R. Levine (Ph.D. '16), Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan. The past five decades have seen community based nonprofit organizations become an integral component of urban policy, a trend which has been accelerated by the growth of public-private partnerships. In new research using fieldwork in Boston, Massachusetts, Jeremy Levine finds that in some poor urban communities, nonprofits are actually taking the place of elected officials as legitimate community representatives. While this move towards private political representation means that urban policymakers need to reconsider how neighborhoods are represented and gain access to resources, they also raise questions of accountability.
View the research (American Sociological Review).



What the Tea Party tells us about the Trump presidency

November 9, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings and co-author, with Theda Skocpol, of The Tea Party and The Remaking of Republican Conservatism.



Economic Opportunity and Trump's Win

November 9, 2016

FREOPP.org | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09), Visiting Fellow, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.



Commodifying Diversity

October 20, 2016

Cited | Podcast interview with sociologist Natasha Warikoo (Ph.D. ''05), author of The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, published this month by University of Chicago Press. Warikoo is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. [Begins at 22 minute mark]... Read more about Commodifying Diversity



Strong words make treaties more effective. So is the Paris climate accord worded too flexibly?

September 29, 2016

Washington Post | By Katerina Linos (Ph.D. '07) and Tom Pegram. Katerina Linos is a professor of international law at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion (Oxford University Press, 2013).



Trumpcast: What does Trump’s Victory Mean for Education Policy?

November 10, 2016

EdNext Podcast | Education Next’s Paul E. Peterson (Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government) and Martin West (Ph.D ''06, Associate Professor of Education) talk about what education reforms they expect from President-elect Donald Trump. Will he move on school choice, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, Title I portability, charter schools, or something entirely unexpected? 



Behind "Make America Great," the Koch Agenda Returns with a Vengeance

November 21, 2016

Talking Points Memo | By Theda Skocpol, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, and Caroline Tervo. "At first glance, the victory of Donald Trump suggests that big political money has less clout than imagined in U.S. democracy." Not so, say the authors, whose research has tracked the long-term rise and recent impact of the Koch network. Here they offer their perspective on how the Koch network helped to elect Trump and will now set the policy agenda. "Most media outlets have not noticed that the Koch network is now fusing with the emerging Trump presidency—a situation that leaves citizens in the dark about huge pending policy upheavals in federal programs most American families have long taken for granted." 

Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard. Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. '16) is now Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Caroline Tervo is a junior at Harvard College.



Protecting and promoting the use of evidence in the regulatory process

November 17, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Nora Gordon (Ph.D. '02), Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings.

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