Lunch with a Leader: MARIA KLAWE Conversations about Governance, Policy, and Leadership Tuesday, March 8, 2016Noon to 1:30pmUniversity Park CampusWidney Alumni House Maria Klawe, has been a powerful force in closing the gender gap in science and engineering. Harvey Mudd College’s fifth president, she joined the college from Princeton University Read more…
When you think about civics ... what comes to mind? Voting? Checks and balances? Locally, civics is so much more than that! Usually, the conversation doesn't go far enough for deep understanding of our civic life in Los Angeles. Join us for our kickoff workshop featuring a panel of civics Read more…
Graduate students from the various programs are seeking panelists to explain how they use their work experience to solve real-world challenges. This panel will focus on the redevelopment of Hollywood Park in Inglewood. Why is redevelopment necessary for Inglewood? What are the benefits and consequences of redevelopment? How will the return Read more…
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 is asked to give a presentation Read more…
YOU ARECordially Invited TO A USC PRICE SCHOOL FACULTY BOOK CELEBRATIONfor ANNETTE M. KIM & WILLIAM G. RESH Annette and Bill will discuss their recently released and highly rated books Rethinking the Administrative Presidency Trust, Intellectual Capital, and Appointee-Careerist Relations in the George W. Bush Administration. Relying on data drawn from surveys Read more…
Thanks to the great response, this event is now at capacity. If you would like to be added to the waitlist for our conversation with Jennifer Samson, please click the green Attend Event button. If we receive a cancellation, those on the waitlist will be notified. Don’t forget to check Read more…
****PLEASE NOTE**** TIME CHANGED TO 2 p.m. Join Sherry Bebitch Jeffe in conversation with Pilar Marrero, one of the U.S. media's foremost experts on immigration politics. Pilar Marrero is a journalist and author with long experience in covering social and political issues of the Latino Read more…
Conversations about Governance, Policy, and Leadership Lunch with a Leader provides students, faculty, and members of the public the opportunity to hear ideas from local, state, and national leaders, share their own ideas, and gain inspiration for effective governance in a more intimate and informal setting. Karina Macias is working to Read more…
When refugees & immigrants flee to America's shores, the American fear of "them" is great but so too is the moral responsibility. Join us in discussion of the possible threats and great benefits refugees bring with them in their search for new homes. Ehsan Zaffar, Senior Advisor at the Office for Read more…
At Downtown Women's Center, homelessness is not inevitable, but a societal problem that bears especially hard on women. It can be ended. At DWC, housing first is key to an individual’s successful transition out of homelessness and on the path to success. This combined with critical time intervention case management, women are empowered to achieve stability Read more…
As the power of the presidency has grown, most research has suggested that presidents maintain strong control over federal agencies. Yet, this conclusion fails to consider the impact of the sprawling hierarchy on controlling bureaucracy. Matt Zarit uses federal contract awards to show how organizational hierarchy limits presidential power over Read more…
Jeff Nugent, USC professor of Economics at Dornsife College of Letters and Arts, teaches Development Economics. Nugent researches institutions and development, the political economy of growth, small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, contractual choice, old age security and fertility and regional (supranational) coordination of industrial development in developing countries. Join Professor Nugent as Read more…
Jingle Jingle, Let’s Mingle! In appreciation for the insightful research you provide, for making our programs and special events so well received, and for the good community we build. Join Bedrosian Center for some merriment! Kindly RSVP by 12/11
NEW DATE! (originally scheduled for Nov. 28th) Join Pamela Clouser McCann, Ph.D., assistant professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, as she discusses her research findings. Legislators encode their policy choices in the text of bills they propose, debate, and pass. This text, and the policy choices within Read more…
Experiments in Public Management Research: Challenges and Contributions Gregg Van Ryzin, PhD, professor at Rutgers University-Newark to speak at USC Price School Governance Salon. Interest in experimental research in public management is on the rise, yet the field still lacks a broad understanding of its role in producing substantive findings and theoretical Read more…