Maxwell School News and Commentary
Bringewatts establish graduate student scholarship fund
“We believe in the importance of quality local government...hence the key role Maxwell continues to play in educating local government leaders,” Margaret Beemer Bringewatt ’68 B.A. (PSc)/ ’72 M.P.A. says. Her and her husband Paul Bringewatt are supporting this stance through a new gift annuity fund for Maxwell graduate students.
Abdelaaty article on attitudes towards refugees published in JEMS
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Purser article on problems with Eviction Lab published in Shelterforce
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Lovely weighs in on how to resolve US-China trade war on Marketplace
Professor of Economics Mary Lovely says negotiators should seek specific policy changes that will address the reason for these tariffs in the first place—U.S. allegations that China treats American firms unfairly with respect to their technology and intellectual property.
Maxwell Advisory Board vice chair supports faculty excellence
Karas Montez addresses education, health disparities at ASA meeting
Taylor discusses Code of Putinism on PONARS Eurasia podcast
Brian Taylor, professor of political science, considers key elements of Vladimir Putin's "code" to be the idea of statism, habit of control, and emotion of respect.
Reeher weighs in on latest Trump controversies
“There have been so many things over the last couple of years that it is just impossible to point to one thing that is going to be a particular problem, or more of a problem than the rest,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
Banks discusses latest in Mueller probe on Bloomberg Radio
"The tweet that he [President Trump] released on Monday morning where he admitted the purpose of the 2016 meeting was to get more information on an opponent...if that was the purpose of the meeting, that was clearly unlawful." He added, "now, Mr. Mueller and his team have all the more reason to want to talk to the President."