Frank Zerunyan‘s new book Newgotiate is reviewed on California City News. Read Frank’s account of writing the book here. Excerpt: In this eBook we create a unique 4-10-10 Newgotiation Technique as a unified dialect, which helps public leaders, individuals and organizations to speak the same language of Newgotiation. The 4-10-10 Read more…
originally published on USC News, March 27, 2015 By overcoming obstacles, health services official reforms public health and strengthens communities How does policy work impact public health issues and the community? Mitchell Katz, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, discussed the topic during an event hosted Read more…
by Frank Zerunyan originally posted on PUBLICCEO, March 24, 2015 On June 28, 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law two bills that effectively dissolved all California Redevelopment Agencies (RDAs). Through the California Redevelopment Association and the League of California Cities, local governments challenged the constitutionality of the two laws (ABx1 Read more…
In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we’re looking at the classic nonfiction book,
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, the book that launched the environmental movement.
March 26, 2015 Panelists: Renee Dake Wilson, Vice President, Los Angeles City Planning Commission Carol Armstrong; LA River Works Omar Brownson, Executive Director, Los Angeles River Corp. Mia Lehrer, President, Mia Lehrer Landscape Architects Army Corp of Engineers (invited) The 51 mile long LA River is due to be transformed from Read more…
Originally posted at USC Price on March 20, 2015 Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined USC Athletic Director Pat Haden March 16 at the university’s Town and Gown ballroom for a conversation on the state of governance in college sports and its impact on student-athletes. USC Price School Read more…
Historically, as the river flooded and meandered across the floodplain, the watershed boundary redefined itself. Originally the river ran through a broad alluvial floodplain, the result of meandering dendritic flows that constantly redefined and disturbed the landscape and its ecologies…as late as 1872 a coast guard survey shows a continuous series of tidal estuaries, lagoons, mudflats and salt marshes from the mouth of the Los Angeles River east to the San Gabriel River.
David Fletcher, author Flood Control Freakology
by Jeremy Loudenback Last year, when the Army Corps of Engineers signed off on a $1.08 billion plan to revitalize an 11-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River, momentum for the project turned from a trickle into a swift current of expectations. Though a modest “back to basics” message has been Read more…
The Judith and John Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise and The USC Department of Intercollegiate Athletics Present a conversation with Condoleezza Rice Patrick C. Haden & Raphael Bostic Read about the conversation here. View photos of the conversation here.
by Jeremy Loudenback Despite his soft-spoken public persona, Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard casts a long shadow. Over the course of his 16-year tenure, most current Pasadena schoolchildren have grown up knowing only Bogaard as their mayor. During that span, Pasadena has undergone dramatic change, shifting from a sleepy town known for Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback Worst in Governance Until a couple of weeks ago, Hillary Clinton’s path to the White House in 2016 was considered a fait accompli, lacking only a formal announcement of her candidacy and a ticket to Philadelphia. But with recent revelations about her use of a private email account Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback Best in Governance Government hasn’t always had a model relationship with technology, but the use of open data and other forward-thinking initiatives are helping to make governments more transparent than ever before. Across the country, cities are using new website interfaces to help constituents gain easier access to Read more…
by Justine Dodgen Originally posted on the BAPF: Bay Area Policy Forum Website, March 12, 2015 Last week, the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy hosted the Bay Area Policy Forum (BAPF) in San Francisco. BAPF, an annual conference for Price students in the Master of Public Read more…
by Merrill Balassone Originally posted on USC News, December 22, 2014 Participants spend supplemental money on food, medication and doctor visits Boosting the incomes of poor, elderly residents in developing countries can significantly improve their health and well-being, particularly in lung function and memory, according to a new study released today. Read more…
Consortium on Collaborative Governance Adam Douglas Henry March 12, 2015 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm The Consortium on Collaborative Governance is a three university partnership that studies how public problems are being solved by sectors working together. This event brings Adam Douglas Henry from the University of Arizona his talk is Read more…
by Justine Dodgen When we talk of governance our first thought is often of the behavior of public officials, but governance is an idea that goes beyond politics; in fact there are many different spaces in which we can talk about governance. Coming up, we’ll be discussing college athletics as a form of Read more…
A call for papers has been issued for the Contesting the Streets II: Vending and Public Space in Global Cities conference, which will be held October 2-3 at the University of Southern California. Abstracts for papers are welcome from graduate students and faculty from a wide variety of disciplines. Abstracts Read more…
Bedrosian welcomes our new faculty affiliate, Emma Aguila is an Assistant Professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public of Policy. Dr. Aguila brings to the center expertise in the economics of aging, labor economics, applied econometrics, program evaluation, and development economics. Recent work with the RAND Center for Read more…
In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, Center Director Raphael Bostic interviews Daria Roithmayr, the author of the new book Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage.
by Raphael Bostic When we started the Bedrosian Center Best and Worst in Governance feature, our goal was to highlight what’s going on in the field. And while we thought that instances of poor governance would provide clear teaching moments, we thought it was equally important to give a shout out Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback Next Tuesday, Los Angeles will take to the polls to confront one of its enduring stereotypes. Los Angeles, critics say, is a civic wasteland, a sprawling city still struggling to forge an identity for itself. Look no further than the last mayoral election, they might say. Only 20.8% Read more…
by Justine Dodgen On March 3, the Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics invite you to hear Dr. Mitchell Katz, Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, speak about how policy work can impact issues such as needle exchange, changes in Read more…
Conversations about governance, policy, and leadership February 24, 2015 12:00pm to 1:30pm Bill Bogaard served four terms as Mayor of Pasadena, after taking office in 1999 as the City’s first directly elected Mayor. During those four terms, the City saw the arrival of the Gold Line light rail transit system; Read more…
USC Price School of Public Policy Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer’s article titled “Planning and Social Media: A Case Study of Public Transit and Stigma on Twitter,” published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, has been selected by the journal’s associate editors as the best paper in 2014. The Read more…
The Best Paper published in 2014 Journal of the American Planning Association has been chosen and the winning paper is by our own Lisa Schweitzer, Bedrosian Faculty and Associate Professor here at the Sol Price School of Public Policy: “Planning and social media; A case study of public transit and stigma on Twitter.” Read more…