William H. Frey, Population Studies Center, U-M. Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution.
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E. Scott Adler
University of Colorado
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What values and priorities motivate the design of political institutions? In this paper, we investigate committee reform in the U.S. House of Representatives to consider two questions: What drives structural change in Congress? What values and priorities decide the 'turf wars' that result when Congress assign jurisdictional control over issues to congressional committees?
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Land use models and scenarios are important tools for evaluating the potential environmental and ecological impacts of land use policies and decisions. To be useful, such tools should both account for underlying social drivers of land use change and provide information on the physical landscape changes (i.e., land cover) brought about by land use change. This presentation summarizes work on how land use and land cover change are linked in the Upper Midwest, and various approaches to spatial modeling and simulation of these changes for the development of scenarios.
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In collaboration with the University of Michigan Business School's Office of Tax Policy Research, CLOSUP sponsored a research conference on November 22, 2002 entitled 'Privatization: Issues of State and Local Public Infrastructure.' The conference brought together leading scholars in public policy and economics from across the U.S.
Karen Mossberger
Caroline Tolbert
Kent State University
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The forthcoming book, 'Beyond the Digital Divide' (Georgetown University Press), redefines the issue of the digital divide in broader terms. The authors argue that the problem has been too narrowly conceived in public debate, research, and programs as primarily an issue of access. In reality, there are multiple information technology divides an access divide, a skill divide, an economic opportunity divide, and a democratic divide. Access without skill is insufficient.
Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Lecture Series
Catherine Bertini, formerly executive director of the World Food Program, gave this inaugural lecture of the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence.
