Maxwell School News and Faculty Media, Opinion and Analysis

Ma quoted in South China Morning Post article on BLM movement, Asian-American community

Those of an older generation, whether in China or the U.S., generally prefer to circumvent discussion of politics and socioeconomic issues, says Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology. "They have memories of the Cultural Revolution and they understand how divisive and how difficult it was and how much destruction it caused," she says.

June 17, 2020

See related: China, Civil Rights, United States

White quoted in Agence France Press article on rethinking race in American history

"I think for a growing number of white Americans you are seeing more attention paid to the longer-term reasons that racial inequality persists in America," says Steven White, assistant professor of political science. "I guess the question is whether these changes in public opinion will last," he says. "Is this the beginning of a really substantial shift?"

June 16, 2020

Carrington ’18 MA (PSc) and Strother ’17 PhD (PSc) piece on Confederate statues in the WaPo

Political science doctoral student Nathan Carrington '18 (M.A.) and alumnus Logan Strother '19 (Ph.D.) explore ongoing debate over Confederate statues in the Washington Post article "Legally, Confederate statues in public spaces aren’t a form of free speech."

June 1, 2020

See related: Civil Rights, Government, United States

Shi article on low-income female students and the reversal of the Black-White gap published in AERA

Brian Clark & Ying Shi

April 12, 2020

Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

Carol Faulkner

December 31, 2019

See related: Civil Rights, Gender and Sex

Elizabeth Cohen discusses her book Citizenship on New Books Network

"Citizenship" (Polity Books, 2019), co-authored by Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science, takes the reader through the authors' approaches to the concept of citizenship and begins by highlighting how it is not always or often consistently applied and understood.

October 18, 2019

See related: Civil Rights, United States

Journalism and Ideals of Democracy

These are interesting times for journalists in America. We reached out to nine of them, all with degrees from Maxwell. With their public affairs education, they understand as well as any journalists what the vigor of the press means to us all.

May 21, 2018

Thorson paper on fight against fake news published in Science

David Lazer, Matthew Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam Berinsky, Kelly Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam Metzger, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Pennycook, David Rothschild, Michael Schudson, Steven Sloman, Cass Sunstein, Emily Thorson, Duncan Watts & Jonathan Zittrain

Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science, and co-authors call for a coordinated investigation into the underlying social, psychological and technological forces behind fake news to counteract the phenomenon's negative influence on society.

March 9, 2018

See related: Civil Rights

Monnat study on disparities in Hispanic health insurance coverage rates published in Rural Sociology

Shannon M. Monnat

August 16, 2016

See related: Civil Rights, Insurance

Veil of Darkness

William Horrace uses an economist’s analytical approach to study whether traffic-stop patterns reveal racial bias by police officers.

June 1, 2016

See related: Civil Rights, Race & Ethnicity

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