The Water Knife
Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife looks at our use and manipulation of water and water rights in the US and brings us to an ultimate conclusion.
Bedrosian kicks off semester with foundation spending debate
by Justine Dodgen We kicked off the spring semester last week with a Price Governance Salon, a program that creates opportunities for students and faculty to engage with top researchers and exchange ideas. Visiting scholar Brian Galle, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, presented the findings of his paper called, Read more…
Paula Daniels: Championing environmental sustainability
by Justine Dodgen Paula Daniels has long been an advocate for environmental causes. Raised in Hawaii, Daniels has said she’s cared about water from a young age, and remembers learning about the importance of malama aina – stewardship of the land- from her grandfather. In a LA Weekly interview in 2012, Read more…
Five minutes with Alex Graddy-Reed
by Justine Dodgen The Bedrosian Center welcomed several new faculty affiliates for the 2015-2016 school year- today, we’ve put Alex Graddy-Reed in the spotlight. Graddy-Reed is an Assistant Professor at the USC Price School where her research focuses on philanthropy, social innovation, and grantmakers’ strategies to be more outcome and impact Read more…
Resh publishes new article in premier Public Administration journal
by Justine Dodgen A new article co-authored by Bedrosian Faculty Affiliate Bill Resh was accepted into the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. The article, entitled “A Systems Theory Approach to Innovation Implementation: Why Organizational Location Matters,” examines how the “success” of adopted innovations depends on both the source of innovation and the organizational Read more…
Tang publishes new article in Policy Studies Journal
by Justine Dodgen This month, Professor and Bedrosian Center Research Director Shui Yan Tang coauthored a new article in the Policy Studies Journal entitled “Political Commitment, Policy Ambiguity, and Corporate Environmental Practices.” His paper examines how regulatory factors are related to basic and proactive corporate environmental management practices in the Pearl River Delta region Read more…
Tang published in Journal of Environmental Management
by Justine Dodgen Last month, Professor and Bedrosian Center Research Director Shui Yan Tang was published in the Journal of Environmental Management. His article, entitled “Stakeholder demands and corporate environmental coping strategies in China,” looks at how corporations in China are developing environmental coping strategies and protection practices. His findings, based Read more…
Michael Maltzan: Bridging Society and Culture in LA’s Infrastructure
by Justine Dodgen Those who commute through downtown may have noticed the construction underway in the Arts District. The City of Los Angeles is busy creating alternative routes in preparation for the imminent rebuilding of the Sixth Street Viaduct, the iconic bridge in downtown L.A. that has been the backdrop of many Read more…
Responding to the refugee crisis with humanitarian governance
by Justine Dodgen For anyone reading the news the past couple weeks, it has been hard to ignore the staggering and often heart wrenching news about the refugee* crisis facing the European Union as thousands of people seek asylum within its borders, many of them fleeing the war in Syria. In Read more…
Gloria Molina: A Pioneer in Los Angeles Politics
by Justine Dodgen Described by Los Angeles Times writer Patt Morrison as “the famous feminist politician from East L.A., the career policymaker/politician who still feels like an outsider,” Gloria Molina holds many firsts in the Los Angeles political world. Molina was the first Latina elected to the California State Assembly, L.A. Read more…
Ed Tinoco Awarded ALA Diversity Research Grant
by Justine Dodgen Bedrosian Affiliate Ed Tinoco was awarded one of three Diversity Research Grants awarded by the American Library Association’s Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services for 2015. This grant will fund original research by Tinoco and co-recipient Dr. Win Shih, Director of Integrated Library Systems at USC. Their research Read more…
Where We Stands Depends on Where We Sit
by Justine Dodgen Our discussion of how race is depicted in media coverage of violent events continues. Today we hear from Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a Senior Fellow at USC Price and a long-time political analyst for NBC Los Angeles. Bebitch Jeffe lends us her perspective today as both faculty and a member of the media. Bedrosian Center: Read more…
Director Raphael Bostic Interviewed on New Fair Housing Rule
by Justine Dodgen Bedrosian Center Director Raphael Bostic recently spoke with DS News to discuss HUD’s new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rule, which was announced in early July. AFFH intends to help communities that receive HUD funding meet long-standing fair housing obligations. During the interview, Bostic discussed what he hopes AFFH will help accomplish: My Read more…
Seek out Diverse Perspectives and Sources of Information
by Justine Dodgen Our discussion of the prevalence of racial bias in how violence is portrayed in the media continues. Today’s response is from Professor Lisa Schweitzer, who specializes in urban studies, particularly empirical analysis of social justice, environment, and transport in cities. Bedrosian Center: What’s one thing we can do Read more…
Director Bostic Weighs In on the SoCal Housing Market
by Justine Dodgen On June 23, Bedrosian Center Director Raphael Bostic joined AirTalk on KPCC to discuss Southern California’s housing market. As a whole, Bostic noted that the housing market is in good shape. “I think what we’ve seen is a pretty nice recovery… I think the bigger question is… that we Read more…
Acknowledge Different Interpretations of Events
by Justine Dodgen Today we’re continuing our discussion of how there is frequent evidence of racial bias in how violence is portrayed in the media. We have been asking faculty members to respond with their ideas for how we, as consumers of news or members of the media, can “do better” Read more…
Recognize that Race is Implicit to our Society
by Justine Dodgen Last week, we introduced the topic of how there is frequent evidence of racial bias in how violence is portrayed in the media. We said that we would be asking faculty members to respond with their ideas for how we, as consumers of news or members of the Read more…
Race and Violence in the Media- What Do We Need to Do Better?
by Justine Dodgen In the aftermath of the terrible massacre of nine black members of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last month, many noted the troubling difference in how the media has depicted the suspected killer, a white man, and suspects of other races or religions in similar past events. Read more…
Studying Senior Care in China
by Justine Dodgen Last month, I left for Beijing, China for the Price International Lab with eighteen of my fellow Price students. Together, we represented five of Price’s graduate degree programs, the Los Angeles and Sacramento campuses, and local and international students. This diverse group set out to put our learning Read more…
Five minutes with Emma Aguila
by Justine Dodgen This year, the Bedrosian Center welcomed a new faculty affiliate, Emma Aguila. Aguila is an Assistant Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy, and her research focuses on the economics of aging and labor dynamics of migrants in Mexico and Latin America. She has an interest Read more…
Lansing on making the rules
by Justine Dodgen Sherry Lansing has accomplished many things throughout her life. When asked the secret to her success, she replied, “If you don’t have the passion and the resiliency, you will give up. This is true for movies, [for] research, and getting money for under-served schools.” At our last Lunch Read more…
Coproducing California’s safety services
by Justine Dodgen As municipalities struggle with the rising costs of providing public services, many are looking for new methods to relieve fiscal stress. One popular strategy has been the use of coproduction mechanisms. Coproduction describes a partnership between volunteer members of the public and public departments or agencies. These partnerships Read more…
Perry calls for more involvement from Public Administration Scholars
by Justine Dodgen At the Bedrosian Center’s Governance Salon discussion, James Perry raised a provocative issue in the public administration field: if public administration is often viewed as out of touch and blamed for governance failures, is effective public administration vanishing? Perry, Editor-In-Chief of Public Administration Review and Professor in the School of Read more…
From Power to Impact
by Justine Dodgen Sherry Lansing – Translating a high-power career into impact on education Did you ever think that your high school math teacher might one day be one of Hollywood’s leading executives? For Sherry Lansing’s students, this idea may have been no surprise. Starting her career as a high school Read more…
Is Public Administration Vanishing?
by Justine Dodgen On March 31, the Bedrosian Center will host James L. Perry at the annual Governance Salon event to discuss Vanishing Public Administration. Perry is a Chancellors’ Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) and Adjunct Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Political Science at Indiana University, Read more…