Public Administration and International Affairs Department News, Media Commentary and Research
Mandela Washington Fellows introduced to SU Libraries
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CSIS named number one think tank in the United States
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Yinger research cited in NYT article on school funding disparities
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Himmelreich piece on ethics of self-driving cars published in Communications of the ACM
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Heflin codirects project funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Shi paper on selective education published in Economics of Education Review
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Maxwell team wins grant from Department of Justice for opioid study
A group comprised of four researchers — representing the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and the Maxwell X Lab — will receive approximately $500,000 over three years in support of their research on different opioid court treatment interventions across New York State.
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Wilcoxen comments on Trump's (SAFE) Vehicles rule in Washington Post
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Banks discusses Trump impeachment trial on KPCC
"One of the things to bear in mind about the procedure in the Senate is that there’s very little in the way of a legal road map. The Constitution says simply that the Senate should have the sole power to trial an impeachment," says William C. Banks, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs.
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Banks weighs in on Iran retaliation in Newsweek
"This is an escalation for sure but retaliation, revenge or reprisals are unlawful at international law, not that Iran abides by international law," says William C. Banks, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs. "The risks are that the U.S. will play along and some escalatory act will be disproportionate to the circumstances, leading to something far worse," he adds.
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Schwartz study on housing vouchers, academic performance published
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Radcliffe explores the fairness of the impeachment process in the Hill
"If any Senate Republicans harbor doubts about [Mitch] McConnell’s position, then, recalling their oath to 'support and defend the Constitution,' they must ask themselves: Did the framers of the Constitution intend senators to be impartial jurors in impeachment trials?," writes Dana Radcliffe, adjunct professor of public administration and international affairs.
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Burman offers his view on Trump's tax cuts in Wall Street Journal
"We borrowed a lot of money to give tax cuts to big corporations and rich people in not the most effective way," says Leonard Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics. "The real concern is the growing debt and the possibility that interest rates won’t stay low forever—and I don’t think they will."
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Wilcoxen weighs in on EPA regulatory rollbacks in Washington Post
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Heflin paper on administrative churn in SNAP published in Medical Care
Development, Governance, and Real Property Tax in China
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Maxwell faculty co-edit new book on intractable conflicts
Constitutional Law: Structure and Rights in Our Federal System, 7th Edition
United States Relations with China and Iran: Towards the Asian Century
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Banks comments on FISA reform in USA Today
Professor Emeritus William C. Banks said congressional action regarding FISA could further insert politics into a process that should be free of it. "All the politics that surrounded the headlines of this story would rear their ugly head again," he says. "It could end up with more amendments to FISA that do more harm than good."
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