Maxwell School News and Commentary

Keck talks to WAER about the Supreme Court justice vacancy

Tom Keck writes about the Supreme Court and its history in the light of the death of Ruther Bader Ginsburg caused a vacancy during a republican administration. He is critical of the partisanship of this system, writing "That electoral connection has been sundered in recent decades, as Democrats won the popular vote in six of the past seven presidential elections, while Republicans maintained a lock on the Court."
September 22, 2020

See related: SCOTUS, United States

Thompson quoted in Associated Press article on Trump's response to COVID-19

Margaret Susan Thompson was quoted in an Associated Press article, about how she feels that President Trump's response to the COVID-19 Pandemic was framed through his own political interests rather than that of public health and wellbeing.
September 21, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Federal, United States

Burman named to advisory committee within the Commerce Department

Leonard Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics and senior research associate at the Center of Policy Research within Syracuse University’s Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public, has been appointed by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis to its Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building within the U.S., a newly formed committee promoting expanded access to federal data.
September 21, 2020

See related: Economic Policy, Federal, United States

Jackson wins Tenth Decade grant to study Black Americans, group threat

Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science, has been awarded $20,000 for their research project "Race, Risks, and Responses: Mapping Black Americans’ Response to Group Threat."  The grant is part of a special call to Maxwell faculty offering Tenth Decade Project funding to support research and initiatives that confront systemic racial inequality.

September 21, 2020

See related: Black, Grant Awards, United States

Sultana talks to The Sanctuary for Independent Media about divesting from fossil fuels

Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, says "a divestment from fossil fuels signals a commitment to ending climate breakdown, to have climate justice, and to think about equitable and just transitions toward regenerative economies and societies that move away from fossil fuels."

September 18, 2020

See related: Natural Resources, United States

Gadarian speaks to Australian Broadcasting Corporation about partisanship and people's behaviors

"We've been talking to the same [3,000] Americans since early March, every six weeks or so," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. What they found is that Americans were "using their partisanship as the top way to screen new information and decide what to do."

September 18, 2020

See related: Political Parties, U.S. Elections, United States

Engelhardt cited in The Real Deal article on COVID's impact on housing costs

September 18, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Federal, Housing, United States

Heflin, Lopoo study on child support income exclusion for SNAP published in Social Science Quarterly

Colleen Heflin, Leonard Lopoo & Mattie Mackenzie-Liu
September 17, 2020

See related: Food Security

Keck comments on priority of the Supreme Court in 2020 election in Sinclair Broadcast Group article

"The Republican base has been more focused on that issue [Supreme Court] than the Democratic base has from Reagan forward, roughly," says Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. "There’s some evidence that that’s shifting."

September 17, 2020

See related: SCOTUS, U.S. Elections, United States

Jackson discusses forced sterilizations, criminalization via Truthout

"The United States’s commitment to eugenics, medical abuse and forced sterilizations depicts the complex nature of perceived criminality in this country," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "By marking certain people’s bodies as inherently...anti-patriotic, the state casts a veil over the grave human rights infringements and institutional abuses it enacts against nonwhite, non-wealthy, non-male, non-normative people."

September 17, 2020

See related: Gender and Sex, Human Rights, State & Local, United States

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