Maxwell School News and Commentary
WP 200 The Effects of State and Federal Mental Health Parity Laws on Working Time
Zoli, McCormick, Lutz discuss the US-Mexico border wall in the DO
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Wasylenko weighs in on Hancock International Airport upgrade in DO
“The transportation funds can (not only) get the personnel coming down here, but visitors,” Michael Wasylenko, professor of economics, said. “It would have a very good economic impact for us as a region.”
McDowell discusses problems facing globalism in World Politics Review
"The headline events of 2016—Brexit, the election of Donald Trump in the United States, a struggling Chinese economy—do not represent the start of a process of 'deglobalization.' Rather, they themselves are a product of a slow unraveling of global economic interconnectedness that has been unfolding for nearly a decade now," writes Daniel McDowell, associate professor of political science.
Boroujerdi, student Abdulkadir featured in DO story on immigration ban
Next week, Professor of Political Science Mehrzad Boroujerdi said, the University planned to host a scholar who has been imprisoned in Iran. Now, he is unsure if the scholar will be able to come to SU at all. “It’s a serious infringement on our academic rights,” he said.
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Excerpt from Ebner's book on violence in Mussolini's Italy in Slate
Michael Ebner, associate professor of history, describes how fascism emerged in Italy as a response to the growing power of socialists, and how fascist violence was used to break their hold on local administration and labor organizations.
Steinberg comments on Bannon, national security in The Guardian
According to University Professor James Steinberg, Steve Bannon's formal inclusion in the U.S. national security policymaking process "is such an explicit rejection of the well-entrenched principle that when it comes to matters of national security that politics doesn’t have any place in the room.”
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Karas Montez paper on recent mortality increases in The Lancet
Andersen weighs in on education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos in DO
“She has no expertise or experience in the educational world,” Kristi Andersen, professor emerita of political science, says. “She has not been a teacher, she has not been an administrator, she has not been a policymaker, she has not worked for an educational think tank and she has not written about education.”
Zeller '06 MPA/IR op-ed on Trump's immigration ban in The Washington Post
"This ban leaves thousands of our wartime allies to fend for themselves against the very enemies we asked them to fight," writes Maxwell alumnus Matt Zeller, co-founder and CEO of No One Left Behind. "We are permanently harming the fabric of U.S. national security. Our credibility is forever tarnished if not eroded."
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