 Burman weighs in on capital gains. Professor Leonard Burman was quoted in the recent NationalJournal article, "Little Evidence Linking Low Tax Rates to Job Growth, as Romney's Filing Shows." Burman argues that "the main reason people say that low capital-gains rates are good for the economy is because they have a lot of capital gains [and] the low rates are good for their capital gains."
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.jpg "Tina Nabatci") Nabatchi publishes report on evaluating citizen participation. Professor Tina Nabatchi recently wrote "A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation,” a guide for government program managers to determine the success of their efforts to improve citizen participation. In the report, Nabatchi establishes steps to implement and manage citizen participation initiatives. Read more.
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 Advisory Board member publishes book on Puerto Rico. A new book by Ángel Collado-Schwarz, a long-time Maxwell School Advisory Board member and SU Trustee, has been published by Syracuse University Press. In Decolonization Models for America’s Last Colony: Puerto Rico, Collado-Schwarz examines the more than a century-old relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. Read more.
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 "Bush's 'evil' trio holds sway over us decade later." Professor Mehrzad Boroujerdi was quoted in a recent Associated Press article concerning where the U.S. stands 10 years after President Bush's proclamation of an "axis of evil" - Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Boroujerdi points out that the "pressures on Iran are definitely hurting them, but it also causes the leadership to push back even harder."
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 Campbell Debates panelists defend, or decry, higher taxes for America's richest. The first in a new series of forums hosted by Maxwell's Campbell Institute, the Campbell Debates, brought together six panelists to make their arguments Wednesday night for and against raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
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