by Jeremy Loudenback By dispensing with paper-based public services and working smarter with technology, the British government may be able to realize £70 billion in savings by 2020, according to a…
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by Jeremy Loudenback Tomorrow marks an important date for New Yorkers. As polls open for the mayoral election, the city will be guaranteed a new face in the mayor’s office for…
by Jeremy Loudenback In July, the city of Detroit found itself in trouble again, attracting the headlines that have earned it an ugly reputation for urban and social dysfunction. After…
by Jeremy Loudenback On Thursday September 12, University of Washington scholar Laura Evans brings attention to a rarely visited governance issue: the role of indigenous governments interfacing with federal, state, and…
NATE SILVER: Baseball and Politics are Data Driven. The Holt Lecture. Friday, September 20, 2013 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Bovard Auditorium Nate Silver has become today’s leading statistician…
by Raphael Bostic Originally posted on Forbes.com July 3, 2013 @ 5:27PM This clear progress has been driven by the purposeful policies of China’s authoritarian government. But, much of it has proceeded independent…
by Raphael Bostic Original posting on Forbes.com – 6/21/2013 @ 4:44PM It’s not super often that Detroit is lifted up as an example of good governance. The city has been wracked with decades…
The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Los Angeles Times are collaborating on a public polling initiative that will survey voter attitudes on a range of municipal,…
by Martin Krieger Ike’s Bluff by Evan Thomas, Threat Vector by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney There has been for some time an historical literature rehabilitating Eisenhower’s reputation as president. Of…
by Martin Krieger I am not sure we teach our students what might be called bureaucratic politics. I have been reading the second edition of Graham Allison (and Philip Zelikow), Essence…
by Martin Krieger Alan Blinder, When the Music Stopped Richard Haass, Wars of Necessity, Wars of Choice How did we end up in the meltdown of 2008? How did we end…
by Martin Krieger Intelligence and US Foreign Policy, Paul Pillar War and Decision, Douglas Feith What was in Donald Rumsfeld’s mind when he demanded that the Iraq war would be launched…
by Martin Krieger John Rawls. Political Liberalism Columbia University Press, 2005. I recall when Rawls’s Theory of Justice appeared. It was a thick book, and I was not philosophically sophisticated. But its…
by Martin Krieger Shui Yan Tang, Ten Principles for a Rule-Ordered Society, Enhancing China’s Governing Capacity 2012 China Economic Publishing House Yan Tang of Price’s faculty has written a basic introduction…
by Martin Krieger The Jewish Annotated New Testament (the NRSV translation), eds. Levine and Brettler, Oxford University Press, 2011. Most Bibles, Hebrew or Catholic or Protestant or…, have annotations and explanations.…
by Martin H. Krieger Professor in the Price School His blog is located at http://blogs.usc.edu/sppd/krieger I often find new books by scanning the new books shelves at USC’s various libraries.…
By Benjamin Robinson When Ron Loveridge talks, people listen. The former Mayor and City Councilman of the City of Riverside has been a local, State-wide, and national figure over a…
by Anthony Bertelli Robert Caro‘s biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize, has become an indispensable book for scholars seeking to understand public administration.…