Melvyn Levitsky was featured in a recent Christian Science Monitor article on whether former Utah governor and Obama-era ambassador to China Jon Huntsman would be an effective choice as the U.S. ambassador to Russia.
The article, titled “Jon...
Whether a nation should retaliate against a cyber attack is a complicated decision, and a new framework guided by game theory could help policymakers determine the best strategy.
The "Blame Game" was developed in part by Robert Axelrod, a...
A working paper by Nicholas Barr, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden and Susan Dynarski titled, “Getting student financing right in the US: lessons from Australia and England,” was published by the Centre for Global Higher Education this...
A new study by Benjamin Edwards, Alexander Furnas, Stephanie Forrest, and Robert Axelrod, titled “Strategic aspects of cyberattack, attribution and blame” was published on February 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
An overwhelming majority of local government leaders in Michigan support reform of the state's controversial emergency manager law, according to a new survey by University of Michigan researchers.Officials from more than 1,300 cities, counties,...
Every year the Ford School organizes a two-day trip to Washington, DC that allows master’s students to explore policy careers while learning from and networking with Ford School alumni who live and work in the nation’s capital.The trip brings...
“Are Michigan’s schools improving? According to a new analysis of national testing data, the answer is a clear 'no,'" says Michigan Radio’s “Stateside” in today’s segment, “On national reading and math test, Michigan only state where students have...
A paper by Katherine Michelmore and Susan Dynarksi titled, “The gap within the gap: Using longitudinal data to understand income differences in educational outcomes” was published on February 1 in AERA Open, a journal from the American Educational...
The National Academy of Sciences has appointed Joy Rohde to serve on an 18-member committee tasked with carrying out a two-year study sponsored by the Office of the Directorate of National Intelligence (ODNI).
The study, titled “Social and...
At the beginning of the winter term and new year, Master of Public Policy candidates Shawn Danino and Matthew Hillard launched “The Michigan PolicyCast,” a radio show-style podcast on the driving political, policy, and media issues of the...
Ashley Wilson (BA '18) speaking on behalf of Students for Choice at the Ann Arbor Women's March (photo credit: Ashley Wilson (BA '18))
While Fordies have been active in politics since the beginning of time (or, more...
On Friday, February 3, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders rolling back provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, a signature achievement of the Obama administration that was passed in response to the financial crisis that began in 2008....
Climate change is likely to increase U.S. electricity costs over the next century by billions of dollars more than economists previously forecast, according to a new study involving a University of Michigan researcher.
The study shows how higher...
The Ford School Committee is pleased to welcome three new members: Michael Fleming, Steve Hamp, and Peggy Thompson.Committee members support the Ford School in a number of ways, including raising the school's visibility among policy leaders,...
An article by Maximilian Auffhammer (University of California, Berkeley), Patrick Baylis (Stanford University), and Catherine Hausman, "Climate change is projected to have severe impacts on the frequency and intensity of peak electricity demand...
Kristin Seefeldt’s (MPP '96, PhD '10) recent op-ed, featured in Making Sen$e on February 2, highlights the need to “fix the social safety need, not shame those who need it.”
Seefeldt notes that “the [social] safety net is perpetually under...
