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Private Organizations and Public Service Delivery

Elizabeth Graddy was a speaker at the International Symposium: Governance in Local and Central Governments in the Age of Globalization, held by the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration, Executive Yuan, Taipei on 9 September 2013.  The title of Graddy’s talk was“Private organizations and public service delivery”  and focused on lessons learned over the past 3 decades about the consequences of outsourcing public service delivery to private organizations. The audience was about 200 public officials. Link to Read more…

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Leading from the West : A Conversation with John Perez

October 22, 2013 5:00pm to 7:30pm Join us for an evening that offers insight into effective governance through conversations with major western leaders of our time. John A. Pérez was elected in 2008 to represent the 46th Assembly District and in 2010 he was elected the 68th Speaker of the California Assembly. Assembly Speaker John Pérez announced he will run for state controller next year. 5:00 p.m. – Check-in and Welcome Reception 6:00 p.m. – Read more…

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Bedrosian to Host California Assembly Speaker Pérez

by Jeremy Loudenback On October 22, the Bedrosian Center receives a visit from one of the state’s most influential lawmakers as part of the Leading from the West conversation series. California Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez will talk about the most important policy issues facing California, review the California Legislature’s busy year of legislation, and share lessons learned from California politics in the era of the Democratic supermajority. Since 2012, Pérez has represented the 53rd district in Read more…

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Lunch with a Leader : Aja Brown

Conversations about governance, policy, and leadership October 17, 2013 12:00pm to 1:30pm Lunch with a Leader provides students with the opportunity to hear ideas from local, state, and national leaders as well as share their ideas and gain inspiration for effective governance in an enjoyable, informal setting. Aja Brown is Mayor of Compton, CA. Can Aja Brown, Compton’s Hip, Refreshing Reform Mayor, Turn This Woeful City Around? Compton chooses political newcomer Aja Brown as next Read more…

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Policy Design and Implementation

On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 our Director Raphael Bostic gave his perspective on his time in Obama’s Washington for the Urban Growth Seminar Series. In this seminar, Bostic shared some lessons learned from the policy making space. One of the things he is most proud of is the housing scorecard, here’s a link: HUD – Housing Scorecard  Each month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury Read more…

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Five Minutes With Jan Perry

by Jeremy Loudenback When Jan Perry came to the Bedrosian Center’s Lunch with a Leader last month, we had opportunity to ask her a few questions about her 12-year run as a council member representing District 9 (which includes much of South Los Angeles and some parts of downtown), how to stimulate small business growth in her new position as interim general manager of the economic and workforce development department for the Garcetti administration, and what Read more…

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Pérez’s Leadership Marked Productive 2013 for Assembly

by Jeremy Loudenback As California Legislature reached the end of its legislative term last month, Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) looked back on a busy year of legislation, headlined by the passage of a balanced budget. “In this first year of our two-year session we passed an on-time balanced budget for the third year in a row, the first time that’s happened in 30 years,” Pérez said in an address to California Assembly members on Read more…

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Transportation Panel Kicks Off Collaborative Research Series

by Jeremy Loudenback With a wave of innovative companies capitalizing on new technology and changing consumer preferences, the face of transportation has changing rapidly in recent years, posing important governance challenges to local and federal entities. On October 30, the Bedrosian Center and METRANS kicked off the Price Research Collaborative series with a panel discussion entitled “NextGen Transportation: Private Sector Alternatives.” Bedrosian Center Director Rapahel Bostic and METRANS’ Genevieve Giuliano were joined by Maged Dessouky from USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering, Read more…

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Policy Design and Implementation: A Perspective from Obama’s Washington

Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance, Raphael Bostic, will speak on October 15th for the USC Urban Growth Seminar Series. USC Urban Growth Seminar Series October 15, 2013 12:15pm to 1:30pm University Park Campus Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) Room 101 In this seminar, Dr. Bostic will reflect on his 3 years in Washington D.C. as a political appointee in the Obama Administration as the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the Read more…

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The New Face of Compton

by Jeremy Loudenback In case you haven’t already read about her in Vogue, Aja Brown is raising some eyebrows. But unlike in years past, when headlines out of Compton focused on chaotic local politics, corruption scandals, and gun violence, there’s a wellspring of optimism surrounding the new Mayor of Compton. Since winning a landslide victory over incumbent Eric J. Perrodin and former mayor and longtime political force Omar Bradley, Brown has been on a mission to Read more…

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LA Mayor Eric Garcetti keynotes USC Price veterans’ affairs conference

Originally posted on USC Price News October 9, 2013 By Megan Goulding Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti addressed a crowd of more than 300 civic leaders, public servants, and philanthropists Oct. 8, when he provided the lunchtime keynote address at a major conference on veterans’ affairs, hosted by the USC Price School of Public Policy. The event marked Garcetti’s first visit to USC as L.A.’s mayor since taking office in June. The day-long conference, “Work and Read more…

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Learning the Ropes: California Legislature 101

by Jeremy Loudenback As the Bedrosian Center gets ready to welcome California State Assembly Speaker John Pérez for the next edition of our Leading From the West series, our focus turns to the political process at the state level. As the leader of the State Assembly, Pérez plays a crucial role in helping usher ideas into law. California’s model of governance bears more than a casual resemblance to the federal government: The California state government is Read more…

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Rape In The Military: An Epic Tragedy Enabled By Poor Governance

by Raphael Bostic Originally posted, Forbes.com October 1, 2013 @ 2:05PM Did you see the recent New York Times article on the outrageous questioning of an alleged rape victim during a military trial? The scene described dovetails with events going on at the University of Southern California Price School, where I teach and direct the Bedrosian Center on Governance. It also highlights how poor governance structures can make a bad system even worse. Last week, the Price School honored three visionary Americans at its annual Guardian Read more…

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Shining a Light on the Power of Statistics

by Jeremy Loudenback Discussions of margin of error don’t typically generate full-throated cheers, even at USC. But most lectures don’t usually feature Nate Silver, the country’s most famous statistician, author, and founder of the popular political blog FiveThirtyEight.com. On Friday at Bovard Auditorium, Silver regaled the audience with his usual diverse set of interests in a talk sponsored by the Bedrosian Center as part of the Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture series. Drawing together Read more…

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Bedrosian welcomes Jan Perry

by Raphael Bostic Last week, the Bedrosian Center hosted former Los Angeles City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Jan Perry as part of our Lunch with a Leader speaker series. Perry once again impressed. I had seen her in action last December, when I moderated a mayoral candidate summit on affordable housing topics. At that event, Perry was knowledgeable, clear, and comfortable with the spotlight on her. She showed those same skills during our 90 minutes together Read more…

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Statistician-journalist Nate Silver headlines USC Price Holt Lecture

Nate Silver detailed his transformation from ordinary statistician to modern-day election soothsayer in front of a USC audience Sept. 20 as part of the Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture Series, offered by the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise. Silver runs the award-winning political website FiveThirtyEight.com – referring to the number of votes in the Electoral College – where he correctly predicted the presidential winner Read more…

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Understanding State-Indigenous Relations

by Jeremy Loudenback When most people think about government in the United States, sovereign Native American governance structures are seldom considered. There are 566 federally recognized American-Indian tribal governments in the country that stretch across 27 states, including the nation’s largest states and all of the states west of the Mississippi River.  The way that these highly varied groups interact with federal, state, and local governments is highly complex, characterized by several different models of government-to-government Read more…

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Nate Silver speaks to students and faculty about data’s significance in life

by Nathaniel Haas originally published by the Daily Trojan on September 22, 2013 Famed statistician Nate Silver spoke to students and faculty in Bovard Auditorium on Friday morning in a presentation titled “Baseball and Politics are Data Driven.” Silver’s presentation was the first in a yearlong series of events made possible by the Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture, a speaker’s series. The event, put on by the Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Read more…

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NATE SILVER: Baseball and Politics are Data Driven

Holt Distinguished Lecture: A Morning with Nate Silver September 20, 2013 11:00am to 12:00pm Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture presents: NATE SILVER: Baseball and Politics are Data Driven Hosted by the USC Price Bedrosian Center on Governance Nate Silver, has become today’s leading statistician through his innovative analyses of political polling. He first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential Read more…

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Nate Silver Talks FiveThirtyEight.Com, ESPN At USC

Marc Sallinger for Neon Tommy reported on the recent Holt Lecture featuring statistician Nate Silver. Although Silver is an innovator leading the charge to change the world we live in, he is also very adamant on the negatives his work may portray. The social media revolution has caused vast amounts of data to become readily available to people all over the globe. Silver was resolute in the fact that big data creates big problems. News Read more…

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He Blinded Us With Science

Our upcoming Holt Lecture featuring Nate Silver was highlighted by LA Weekly! Being “America’s most popular statistician” sounds dubious, something like being “the smartest Jäger girl” or “the deepest Kardashian” — talk about damning with faint praise. But the odds have been in Nate Silver’s favor for quite some time. Although the Michigan native achieved mainstream acclaim in November 2008 by accurately predicting the presidential-election winner in 49 states, he’d previously applied his foresight to Read more…

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Lunch with a Leader : Jan Perry

Conversations about governance, policy, and leadership September 18, 2013 12:00pm to 1:30pm Lunch with a Leader provides students with the opportunity to hear ideas from local, state, and national leaders as well as share their ideas and gain inspiration for effective governance in an enjoyable, informal setting. Jan Perry is the Interim General Manager of the City of Los Angeles’ Economic Development Department.  

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Bedrosian Center Research Presentations: Anthony Bertelli

September 17, 2013 12:00pm to 1:30pm The Bedrosian Center funds several grants for USC Price faculty research on governance issues. Preference for the awards is given to research focused on collaborative governance, relationships between governance and planning, and government accountability issues. As a condition of the grant, each principal investigator was asked to give a presentation of his or her findings. Today Anthony Bertelli will present findings on his project. Public Policy Investment: A New Read more…

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