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Levitsky on the legalization of marijuana in Uruguay and the need for objective analysis

Jun 21, 2017

In the Latin American Advisor, Melvyn Levitsky questions the long-term impact of Uruguay’s decision to legalize marijuana. Uruguay is the first nation in the world to fully legalize marijuana. Next month, Uruguay will begin to permit the sale of...

Hall's Freep opinion piece: "Secrecy not worst part of Senate health care bill process"

Jun 21, 2017

An opinion piece by Richard L. Hall, “Secrecy not worst part of Senate health care bill process,” appears in today’s Detroit Free Press.In it, Hall argues that lack of transparency is not always a bad thing. “[C]losed doors sometimes make honest...

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Rabe and Mills for Brookings, "Americans want states to pick up federal climate slack"

Jun 21, 2017

In “Americans want states to pick up federal climate policy slack,” published by the Brookings Institution’s Fixgov blog, Barry Rabe, Sarah Mills, and Christopher Borick share new data from the National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE),...

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Survey: Most Americans Believe Strongly In Climate Change

Jun 20, 2017 Wisconsin Public Radio

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Go Blue: U Of Michigan Offers Free College Tuition

Jun 19, 2017 Forbes

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Brian Jacob in Chalkbeat: Five big questions researchers are asking about charters

Jun 19, 2017

Brian Jacob is cited in a new Chalkbeat article, “Beyond the test score race: Five big questions researchers are asking about charter schools.”While many researchers with an interest in charter schools focus on the impact these schools have had on...

Dominguez in South China Morning Post: U.S. casts nervous eye over Chinese debt

Jun 19, 2017

Kathryn Dominguez is quoted in a new South China Morning Post story about China’s rising debt levels: “US casting nervous eye at China’s ‘phenomenal’ debt levels, says former Obama pick for the Fed.” “It’s really quite phenomenal how high the...

U-M's Go Blue Guarantee—free tuition for BA students with need—makes national headlines

Jun 19, 2017

Mark Schlissel, president of the University of Michigan, recently announced the “Go Blue Guarantee,” which pledges four years of free tuition for admitted in-state students whose families earn less than $65,000 per year. The program is based, in...

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Beyond the test score horse race: 5 big questions researchers are asking about charter schools

Jun 15, 2017 Chalkbeat

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Michael S. Barr named dean of U-M's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Jun 15, 2017

Michael S. Barr will be the new Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, effective Aug. 1. His five-year appointment was approved Thursday by the University of Michigan Board of Regents. Barr is...

Michigan News release: Local views on state government preemption

Jun 15, 2017

ANN ARBOR—Statewide, 70 percent of Michigan's local government officials believe the state government is taking too much decision-making authority away from local governments, according to a new survey by University of Michigan researchers.The data...

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Michael Barr named dean of the Ford School of Public Policy

Jun 15, 2017

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Big majority of Americans want states to act on climate — poll

Jun 12, 2017 E&E News

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Jacob on Michigan Radio: MI reforms of under-performing schools have been unsuccessful

Jun 9, 2017

On June 6, Brian Jacob spoke with Dustin Dwyer of Michigan Radio about recent research that explores whether Michigan's Priority and Focus schools have benefitted from reforms implemented in 2012. The work is published in “Differentiated...

Michigan News release: In climate policy, Americans want states to pick up federal slack

Jun 9, 2017

A majority of Americans across the political spectrum believe states are responsible for addressing climate change in the absence of federal policy, according to a new survey by University of Michigan researchers.The National Surveys on Energy and...

Stevenson contributes to bipartisan AEI-Brookings report supporting paid family leave

Jun 7, 2017

As a member of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Paid Family Leave, Betsey Stevenson has contributed to a recently released bipartisan report highlighting the benefits and costs of paid leave. In the May 2017 report, titled “Paid family and...

Stevenson, Wolfers et al urge confirmation of Trump pick for Council of Economic Advisers

Jun 6, 2017

In a recently released letter to the Senate Banking Committee, prominent economists including Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers of the Ford School, have urged the confirmation of American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Kevin Hassett, President...

Welcome to the Ford School's 2017 Public Policy and International Affairs Fellows

Jun 5, 2017

Please join us in welcoming the Ford School's 2017 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) fellows to Ann Arbor. The PPIA program, which the Ford School has participated in each year since 1983, aims to promote diversity in public service....

National Bureau of Asian Research interviews Ciorciari about Cambodian election

Jun 5, 2017

Yesterday, Cambodia held its first commune elections since 2013, when the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) retained power in spite of a robust challenge from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). After the 2013 elections,...

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Michigan mayors vow to uphold Paris Agreement in wake of U.S. abandonment

Jun 2, 2017 Michigan NPR

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Hun Sen’s Paradox: Absolute Power With Limits

Jun 1, 2017 Cambodia Daily

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The Upcoming Cambodian Election and U.S.-Cambodian Ties under the Trump Administration

Jun 1, 2017 The National Bureau of Asian Research

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States, cities pledge action on climate even without Trump

Jun 1, 2017 The Washington Times

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Vox piece on universal basic income proposal cites Luke Shaefer's "must read" research

May 31, 2017

Vox asks “What happens if you replace every social program with a universal basic income?” in a May 30 article by Dylan Matthews. The piece goes on to cite Luke Shaefer’s research on a negative income tax. The article discusses a recent American...

Jonathan Hanson in IPSR: "State capacity and the resilience of electoral authoritarian regimes"

May 31, 2017

Jonathan K. Hanson explores the relationship between state capacity and electoral authoritarian regimes in his May 2017 “State capacity and the resilience of electoral authoritarianism: Conceptualizing and measuring the institutional underpinnings...

Rabe’s influential book on climate change policy to receive prestigious APSA award

May 31, 2017

Barry Rabe’s influential book about the politics behind U.S. climate change policy, Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings 2004), will be honored with the American Political Science...

Rabe examines Pennsylvania's unorthodox resistance to energy taxes in new journal article

May 31, 2017

A new publication by Rachel Hampton and Barry Rabe, titled "Leaving money on the table: Pennsylvania exceptionalism in resisting energy severance taxes," was published in Commonwealth this month. In it, Hampton and Rabe reflect on Pennsylvania's...

Wolfers coauthors paper on the growing gap in life expectancy and retirement benefits

May 31, 2017

A new working paper by Alan Auerbach, Kerwin Charles, Courtney Coile, William Gale, Dana Goldman, Ronald Lee, Charles Lucas, Peter Orszag, Louise Sheiner, Bryan Tysinger, David Weil, Justin Wolfers and Rebeca Wong, titled How the Growing Gap in Life...

WaPo cites Education Policy Initiative research on MI charter school practices

May 31, 2017

In “What ‘school choice’ means in the era of Trump and DeVos,” Washington Post journalist Valerie Strauss explores the varied policies and programs proposed by U.S. school-choice advocates. Strauss' primer on the movement cites recent research from...

Brian Jacob, Sue Dynarski, and members of the Education Policy Initiative stand along the winding main staircase of the Ford School's home, Weill Hall

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Hun Sen is waging ‘systematic campaign’ to silence dissent: Amnesty

May 30, 2017 The Phnom Penh Post

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