The nation has witnessed two weeks of civil unrest; and policing as a political institution has been under public scrutiny for decades. With protests in all 50 states during this…
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? America, Heck Yeah! Public Schools & Baseball In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins and D. Roderick (Rod) Kiewiet, Professor of Political Science at Caltech, break down…
byAbby Wood and Christian Grose Bedrosian Faculty Research Award: Government Transparency Laws: Why Do Some Legislators Over Comply?, Awarded January 2015 __________________________ Transparency and the Federal Election Commission: A Boon for…
An article in the May/June issue (V75.3) of Public Administration Review, is garnering media and more importantly, professional attention. Assessing the Past and Promise of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS), authored by Sergio…
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…
by Jeremy Loudenback “Government has always been in the communications business,” says Los Angeles’s first chief data officer. As part of his new job, Abhi Nemani will be charged with connecting…
by Jeremy Loudenback For more than 15 years, researchers having been drawing attention to a digital divide, the idea that access to digital technologies is not equally available to all. But…
In this inaugural edition of the Bedrosian Book Club podcast, four of our faculty discuss Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, the French economics book on inequality that is taking the world by storm.
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Our Faculty ask “Can data build a better L.A.?” Chris Weare and Juliet Musso shared their thoughts in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece in October: Mayor Eric Garcetti’s plan…
by Jeremy Loudenback During his campaign for mayor, Eric Garcetti positioned himself as the young, technology-savvy alternative to other candidates. During the first few months of his administration, he’s already broken…
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…
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…