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Ford School wins NASPAA 2020 Social Equity award

Oct 2, 2020 0:02:12

The Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) has awarded the Gerald R.

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Catherine Hausman: Understanding Carbon Tax

Sep 22, 2020 0:03:02

Catherine Hausman, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economics Research, explains the concept and arguments for and against

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Hanson highlights tight Michigan Senate race

Oct 1, 2020 STRINGR

"The Michigan Senate race is one of the few opportunities that the Republicans have to pick up a Senate seat...Although most polls show Peters with a narrow lead, that lead is within the margin of error, and there are a lot of undecided voters,"...

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Rabe on the transition away from coal

Oct 2, 2020 Chicago Tribune

“I’m hard-pressed to think of any state or analyst upbeat about the future of coal,” said Rabe. “Increasingly, the discussion is about how we can navigate a just, humane transition.” Read the full Chicago Tribune article...

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BA information session

Oct 28, 2020, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT

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Information session for undergraduate students interested in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

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Rabe: A conservative Supreme Court could diminish unilateral executive action on environmental policy

Sep 28, 2020

"Even if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the White House," said Rabe, "the high court’s new makeup would set up a questionable future for aggressive Biden administration environmental policies. I think it likely dials back ambition for any...

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Young voters expected to close participation gap with older voters, says Goldenberg

Sep 28, 2020 Bridge Michigan

“While it’s true that [young people] still lagged the voting rates of older voters in 2018, they closed the gap some, and I expect that they’re going to close the gap even more this time,” said Goldenberg. Read the full Bridge Michigan article...

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Axelrod's game theory experiment offers Biden & Democrats a Supreme Court strategy

Sep 27, 2020 Newsweek

"The salvation for the Court—for both conservatives and liberals in the long run will not be this or that justice, or even the chief justice who at least for a few more weeks will be the ideologically swing justice. Instead, look to Anatol Rapoport...

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Public Partnership for Policy and International Affairs Education (University of Pittsburgh)

Nov 19, 2020, 12:00-1:00 pm EST

Are you interested in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy? Applications are now open and must be submitted through the Rackham School of Graduate Studies by the January 15th deadline. For more information about the admissions process, go to http://fordschool.umich.edu/mpp-mpa/admissions. Join us at Public Partnership for Policy and International Affairs Education (University of Pittsburgh).

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BA information session

Oct 21, 2020, 5:30-6:30 pm EDT

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Information session for undergraduate students interested in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

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