Niskanen Center published a blog co-authored by Jeffery A. Jenkins about ending the filibuster. “Typically, the filibuster is described as a tool of the minority party, obstructing majority-rule, or “majoritarian” policy-making. Yet, we can flip this framing around and see that, sometimes, the filibuster serves a majoritarian function, and has Read more…
he USC Price School of Public Policy and the Bedrosian Center on Governance are honored and excited to welcome Jamila Michener as our special guest for this month’s Price Governance Salon. She will be discussing her new book, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics. This book looks at Medicaid: America’s public health insurance program as a key example of how federalism plays out in policymaking and how drastically different it is implemented at the state level.
Nearly 20 years ago, Stanford Professor Keith Krehbiel wrote a book showing that political parties are less important in legislative-executive politics than previously thought — challenging previous assumptions of American politics and influencing the work of many up-and-coming scholars. USC Price School of Public Policy Provost Professor Jeffery Jenkins was completing graduate school when Krehbiel released Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking in 1998.
Resh, William; Siddiki, Saba; McConnell, Will R. Does the Network Centrality of Government Actors Matter? Examining the Role of Government Organizations in Aquaculture Partnerships. Review of Policy Research, 11/2014, Volume 31, Issue 6. Abstract The growth in the use of collaborative governance arrangements has been accompanied by burgeoning scholarship in the Read more…
Governance Salon featuring George Krause, University of Pittsburgh video not available January 13, 2011 Krause’s interest in the budgetary process led him to consider the role of resources in American politics more generally, and this talk provides an overview of this broader trajectory in his research agenda. Selected bibliography: Krause, Read more…
