by Justine Dodgen This week, the White House hosted a summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) to discuss how the United States and its partners can counter extremist ideologies and prevent the radicalization of domestic individuals. The summit’s emphasis on countering homegrown terrorism comes in response to the evolving form of Read more…
Giving new language to the ongoing dialogue of racial inequality in America, Reproducing Racism distills research from different fields into a highly readable argument that historical actions matter more than current prejudices in locking in inequality.
by Justine Dodgen While Pasadena City Hall may be best known for its appearances on the hit show Parks and Recreation, it is also home to one of the longest-governing mayors in LA County. Bill Bogaard, Mayor of Pasadena, has been elected four times, having first taken office in 1999. On Read more…
February 17, 2015 7:00pm to 10:00pm The Bedrosian Center is offering a group rate discount to The Whipping Man at The Pasadena Playhouse, the play will be followed by a panel discussion with Center Director Raphael Bostic, USC Gould Professor Sam Erman, actor Charlie Robinson, and others discussing the play’s themes as Read more…
Citylab, from The Atlantic, took a look at a recent study by Bedrosian Faculty Affiliate Lisa Schweitzer. Her article, “Planning and Social Media: A Case Study of Public Transit and Stigma on Twitter,” published in the Journal of the American Planning Association won the journals best paper award for 2014. Read more…
CEQA brought everybody to the table to negotiate what turned out to be a really a brand new set of tools that were really creative for both market-rate developers and affordable developers in that neighborhood. I think in some cases it can be used to protect the public good. What’s Read more…
Originally published on the USC Price website, February 11, 2015 Television icon LeVar Burton discussed how he’d like to see storytelling better integrated into education during a Jan. 28 Holt lecture series event presented by the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise. Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback January 2015 Worst in Governance That the United States is increasingly riven by strong partisan divisions is not exactly news in 2015. But the recent controversy around House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress establishes sets a Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback January 2015 Best in Governance “Politics stops at the water’s edge” was the latter-day foreign-policy vision of Arthur Vandenberg, a one-time isolationist Republican senator from Michigan who fiercely opposed Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. However, in the wake of World War II, Vandenberg’s work with President Harry Read more…
by Justine Dodgen On February 17, The Bedrosian Center will host the first event of the Center’s newest program series, Policy at the Playhouse. With this series, the Bedrosian Center aims to recognize that conversations about governance take place in diverse spaces and are voiced by many different communities. The first Read more…
Lisa Schweitzer. Planning and Social Media: A Case Study of Public Transit and Stigma on Twitter. Journal of the American Planning Association: Vol. 80, No. 3, 2014, pp. 218-238. Abstract Problem, research strategy, and findings: How media portray public transit services can affect the way voters and stakeholders think about future transit Read more…
South LA has a new park, thanks to the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust and all the great people who support them and their work! We were happy to host the Park Equity Symposium this past July. The issue of park equity has long existed on the fringes of several research Read more…
by Justine Dodgen Last week, former CEO of Los Angeles County Bill Fujioka joined students at the Bedrosian Center’s Lunch with a Leader event to discuss his ideas about leadership and how they helped him rise to LA County’s top appointed position. Long before he was CEO, Fujioka says, his Read more…
The USC Price School of Public Policy offered a timely and insightful discussion on the Paris massacre and its implications for the United States at a Jan. 21 event featuring noted homeland security expert Erroll Southers and Professor Raphael Bostic. Southers, the director of transition and research deployment for the Read more…
Holt Distinguished Lecture A Conversation with LeVar Burton The Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture is a speaker’s series established by longtime Price School board of councilor’s member Dennis Holt (founding chairman and CEO of U.S. International Media) and his wife, Brooks. The Holt programs support prominent practitioners, influential policymakers, Read more…
by Donnajean Ward A new initiative, Policy at the Playhouse, at Bedrosian Center recognizes that conversations about governance take place in many different fora and are voiced by many different communities. We said an enthusiastic “Yes!” to the opportunity to lead a post-show discussion at the historic Pasadena Playhouse after a performance of The Read more…
Conversations about governance, policy, and leadership January 27, 2015 12:00pm to 1:30pm Fujioka is a public administrator with 34 years of experience in local government. He served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the County of Los Angeles from 2007 to December 2014, implementing a new governance structure whereby the Read more…
Price Research Center Collaborative January 22, 2015 12:00pm to 1:30pm The Price Research Collaborative aims to foster critical discussion about both specific policy areas as well as the ways in which those policy areas are being implemented. This Price Research Center Collaboratives brings together the Bedrosian Center on Governance and CREATE Homeland Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback For William T. Fujioka, a distinguished 40-year career in public service began in humble circumstances. In 1972, Fujioka started working in the public sector as a custodian for Santa Cruz County. But after rising through the ranks in jobs for both the City of Los Angeles and Read more…
Raphael Bostic spoke to Daniel Wood of the Christian Science Monitor about recent protests for police reform. “These past few months have coalesced an unprecedented amount of concern by community leaders, law enforcement, youth, and clergy alike to really come together, roll up the sleeves and come up with substantive, Read more…
by Justine Dodgen 2014-2015 Faculty Research Awards Announced The Bedrosian Center is pleased to announce the research projects that have been selected for Faculty Research Awards for the 2014-2015 academic year. Pam McCann, Assistant Professor at Price, received an award for a research project to develop a political bargaining theory that Read more…
by Justine Dodgen The events surrounding the Paris massacre have sparked an international debate on the right to free speech. While there is widespread consensus over the unspeakable tragedy of these events, reactions over the political implications have varied; free speech champions have lauded Charlie Hebdo for its brave stance, others Read more…
Originally posted on the USC Price website, January 13, 2015 USC Price School of Public Policy professor Raphael Bostic has been elected to the board of directors for Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage finance company. Bostic, who also directs the Price School’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise, brings Read more…
