American/Comparative Public Policy
The challenge: How to help students formulate possible policy responses to undermine Fidesz’s authoritarian grip on power in Hungary (with lessons for other authoritarian contexts). Background and policy setting: In offering the course to 24 graduate students at Korbel, I had two main partners: József Péter Martin, executive director of Transparency International, Hungary, and Dóra […]
Read MoreIs it really my place as an academic researcher to pass judgement on organizations that offer me research consultancies in areas that align with my expertise? After all, my research is unbiased and well executed. Isn’t it better that I provide clients with sound academic research rather than turn down their work, which increases the […]
Read MoreAt the moment, universities and colleges in the United States are looking for ways to increase pressure on the Russian regime to reverse their invasion of Ukraine. Gov Polis has advised CO higher ed institutions to not only divest, but to terminate contracts and grants that were in collaboration with Russian institutions. Is this the […]
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The challenge: Navigating whether and how to engage with authoritarian regimes in academic spaces – Lending support to voices situated in authoritarian regimes, without jeopardizing their work and safety …
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The challenges: The background and policy setting: Brown is an expert on race, gender, and identity politics, and is one of the founders of Women Also Know Stuff.1 After George Floyd’s murder in 2020 she was approached to help people understand how talk about the Black Lives Matter movement and identity politics more broadly in schools and communities. This […]
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This reflection was completed by a professor who studies the economics of stratification, considering such topics as equitable growth, gender, and macroeconomic tools. Their primary research focus has been on racial profiling by the police. The scholar has requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of this engagement.
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Background and Policy Setting Catherine Herrold studies how local civic actors—including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), grassroots groups, and philanthropic foundations—promote economic development and democratic political reform. Her first book project examined how leaders of Egyptian NGOs and foundations understood the concept of “democracy” and promoted it in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. In […]
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The challenges: The background and policy setting: James Goldgeier has worked for many years on NATO. In the mid-1990s, he spent a year in the government working at the State Department and as a director of Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs on the National Security Staff. In 1999, he published Not Whether but When: the […]
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