by Raphael Bostic In the last few weeks, I have had several conversations on the issue of infrastructure. Each of these made clear the important role that governance has to play in determining the future of infrastructure investment and the state of infrastructure moving forward. Why a focus on infrastructure? Infrastructure Read more…
Donnajean Ward reviews Steven Spielberg’s latest film “Lincoln” as lesson in governance.
Professor Terry Cooper, along with research students Weijie Wang, Hui Li, and Henry Yee (now Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore), have been working on a Bedrosian Center funded project called “From Subjects to Citizens: How Homeowners and Local Officials Perceive Homeowners’ Roles in Local Governance in China.” We talked with Cooper about how the project is Read more…
Bedrosian Center Director, Raphael Bostic interviewed by Mark Garrison on Marketplace, right before the FHA financial status report was sent to Congress. “FHA has historically been an entrée for a bunch of first time homebuyers to get access into home ownership,” says Raphael Bostic, a USC public policy professor and Read more…
Post Mortem November 14, 2012 12:00pm to 1:00pm The final of the Road to the White House series for a post mortem on the election. Featuring: Dan Schnur, Director of the Unruh Institute on Politics Raphael Bostic, Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance Roberto Suro, Fellow with the Center Read more…
Research Associate Professor Christopher Weare and Assistant Professor Nicole Esparza have been working with Professor Paul Lichterman, a sociologist from the Dornsife College at USC, on the question of what makes civic networks cohere and fracture over time and how these processes affect the ability of networks to support the work of non-profit and advocacy organizations.
by David Gastwirth Swing voters took center stage at this week’s [Wed, October 31st – one week before the election] Road to the White House. Given the undivided attention being paid to swing voters in the final stretch of the race, the topic is quite fitting for our last discussion Read more…
Price Governance Salon featuring Tonja Jacobi, Northwestern University Tonja Jacobi, Northwestern University Jacobi’s research focuses on judicial politics and behavior, federal courts, American governmental institutions and constitutional law, particularly constitutional criminal procedure. The driving question in her research is: how do judges respond to institutional constraints? This includes vertical constraints, Read more…
November 7, 2012 12:00pm to 1:00pm Geoffrey Cowan, director of USC Annenberg’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) lead a wide-ranging post-election conversation with former California Governor Gray Davis and representatives from USC’s College Democrats and College Republicans.
On Thursday, November 1st, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that he was endorsing President Obama in this election. He said he had decided that President Obama was the best candidate to address climate change.“Our climate is changing,” he wrote. “And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in Read more…