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Using Behavioural Science to Improve the Government Workforce

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Oxford Government Review | By Elizabeth Linos (Ph.D. '16), in the inaugural issue of the Oxford Government Review (p. 41). Linos and Harvard's Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, spoke at the Challenges of Government Conference...

Suzanne Mettler: The Government-Citizen Disconnect

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Suzanne Mettler, The John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University. Nearly all Americans today benefit from assistance from government at some point in their lives, and the average person receives a higher portion of income from...

The CFPB Is Making Government More Accountable. The GOP Wants to Stop It

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Washington Monthly | By Barbara Kiviat, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. The Financial CHOICE Act would remove the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s popular consumer complaints database from public view. At a time when many Americans feel...

Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston

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Who makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich ethnographic portrait of the individuals who implement community development...

Government Performance Lab Awards Technical Assistance to Three States

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Harvard Gazette | Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy and cirector of the Government Performance Lab at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses new projects with state governments in California, Connecticut, and Illinois that aim to...

Transforming the culture of procurement in state and local government: An interview with Jeffrey Liebman, Director, Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab

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Gov Innovator Podcast | Andy Feldman (PhD '07) interviews Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard Kennedy School. Feldman is Visiting Fellow with the Center...

How the government can help simplify personal financial decision-making

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Harvard Kennedy School | "Low incomes, limited financial literacy, fraud, and deception are just a few of the many intractable economic and social factors that contribute to the financial difficulties that households face today...But poor financial...

The False Economic Promise of Global Governance

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Project Syndicate | By Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. The problems of our day have little to do with a lack of global cooperation, but rather are rooted in failures of domestic...

Compensation or Constraint? How Different Dimensions of Economic Globalization Affect Government Spending and Electoral Turnout

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ABSTRACT This article extends theoretical arguments regarding the impact of economic globalization on policy making to electoral turnout and considers how distinct dimensions of globalization may produce different effects. It theorizes that constraints on...

How 'Pay for Success' Allows Governments to Experiment without Risk

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Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast | Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, explains the Pay For Success model, also known as Social Impact Bonds, which he has been piloting across the country through the Kennedy School’s Government...

We can help, but there’s a catch: Nonprofit organizations and access to government-funded resources among the poor

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Today, low-income people seeking resources from the federal government must often work through non-profit organizations. The purpose of this paper is to examine the constraints that the poor must face today to secure resources through non-profit...

Social Sciences in Government: Research, Policy, and Practice

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Social Sciences in Government: Research, Policy, and Practice Tuesday, April 11th from 3:00pm-5:00pm in WJH 105 Dr. Diana Epstein, Evidence Team Lead, White House Office of Management and Budget Dr. Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Senior Equity Fellow, Office...