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Pralle discusses the climate crisis on WAER
"Unlike some problems like terrorism or chronic poverty or addiction, things like that, that are very difficult to figure out, the causal chains are hard, but (with climate crisis), we know what we need to do, which is stop emitting carbon emissions," Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science, tells WAER. "So, we need to stop burning fossil fuels and we know when we need to do it." She was interviewed for the segment "CNY College Educators: Climate Crisis Has Slipped from Agenda, Has Parallels with COVID Crisis."
7/22/2020

Dickey weighs in on USDA union disagreement in Bloomberg Law article
"Prior to 2018 when the Department of Education made such a move, I had never seen a federal agency attempt to unilaterally implement an entire collective bargaining agreement outside of the normal process of negotiation and impasse resolution," says Todd Dickey, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs, about the disagreement between a U.S Department of Agriculture lawyers’ union and the agency’s general counsel. Read more about the dispute in the Bloomberg Law article "USDA, Staff Union Dispute Is Latest Among Federal Agencies."
7/21/2020

Barkun cited in VICE articles on conspiracy theories
According to Michael Barkun, professor emeritus of political science, three core principles characterize most conspiracy theories. Firstly, the belief that nothing happens by accident or coincidence. Secondly, that nothing is as it seems: The "appearance of innocence" is to be suspected. Finally, the belief that everything is connected through a hidden pattern. Barkun was cited in the VICE articles "What It's Like to Escape the Mindset of a Conspiracy Theorist" and "The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived."
7/20/2020

Gadarian quoted in NYT article on face mask use in the US
"The big takeaway of all of the data is partisanship is the big determinant of all of the behavior," says Associate Professor of Political Science Shana Gadarian, who published a study in March on partisanship and health behaviors surrounding COVID-19. "It’s not age. It’s not where you live," she says. Read more in the New York Times article "A Detailed Map of Who Is Wearing Masks in the U.S."
7/20/2020

Lovely comments on Barr's speech on pro-China policies in Wash Post
Attorney General William P. Barr recently accused Beijing of pressuring American business leaders to promote pro-China policies in the United States, and suggested that U.S. executives who do so might be violating U.S. lobbying laws. Professor Mary Lovely says the speech "seems designed to show the world that the U.S. will interpret every action of multinational firms operating in China through a lens of bilateral hostility." She was interviewed for the Washington Post article "William Barr cites Disney, Apple in speech accusing U.S. companies of ‘kowtowing’ to China."
7/20/2020

NIA funds multi-university aging and policy center
A consortium of three upstate New York universities has received a 5-year, $1.5-million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to fund the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS), headquartered at Syracuse University. The NIA, part of the National Institutes of Health, issues such grants to support centers of innovative research on the demography and economics of aging. The CAPS consortium includes Syracuse, Cornell University, and the University at Albany.
7/17/2020

Estevez-Abe explains Japan's success with coronavirus in Newsweek
According to Margarita Estevez-Abe, one of the keys to Japan's success is being able to control the spread of infections in facilities for the elderly. "From an international comparison, it can be seen that Japan's nursing-related administration and nursing homes started corona countermeasures at a very early stage," she says. "Whether or not this group can be protected well is the basis of corona countermeasures." Her article, "Factors behind unknown success in Japan's corona countermeasures — Nursing facilities," was published in Newsweek (Japan).
7/17/2020

Lerner Center research cited in NYT article on working moms, COVID-19
"Gender Disparities in Caretaking during the COVID-19 Pandemic," a Lerner Center Research Brief written by Lerner Postdoctoral Scholar Danielle Rhubart, was cited in the New York Times article "‘They Go to Mommy First’." Rhubart examined data from the Census Household Pulse survey, conducted in late April and early May, and found that over 80 percent of U.S. adults who weren’t working because they had to care for their children who were not in school or day care were women.
7/15/2020

Barkun quoted in Foreign Policy article on QAnon movement
"If there is any lesson to be taken from this bizarre episode, it is that, in the age of Trump, no claim seems too preposterous to find an audience and that, in the age of the internet and social media, these beliefs and those willing to accept them are only too easy to bring together," says Michael Barkun, professor emeritus of political science. He was cited in the Foreign Policy article "QAnon’s Madness Is Turning Canadians Into Potential Assassins."
7/15/2020

Kumar article on police violence in India published in Scroll
"So long as we can live in a society where labourers have to walk hundreds of kilometres to reach their homes while trains idle by, where rape victims are shamed for their clothing choices, where Dalits are punished for making a little money – we cannot be shocked that the police also target the same citizens, albeit with brute force," writes Radha Kumar, assistant professor of history. Her article, "Thoothukudi isn’t an exception – brutal police violence has always been the norm in India," was published n Scroll.
7/14/2020

Morgan examines whether or not the EU is imperialist in JEPP article
"Is the European Union imperialist?," written by Associate Professor of Political Science Glyn Morgan, was published in the Journal of European Public Policy. Morgan explores the paradox of a political formation that is both vulnerable to the charge of being an imperialist, while no less vulnerable to being itself the victim of imperialism (or ‘vassalisation’).
7/14/2020

Cademartori bequest supports Maxwell School undergraduates
Future undergraduates majoring in history or economics at the Maxwell School will benefit from scholarship funds provided, in his will, by alumnus Dominick Cademartori ’52 BA (Econ). Cademartori’s $30,000 gift is intended to extend the legacy of his own studies as a first-generation American and first-generation college student for whom college was nearly discontinued owing to financial hardship.
7/14/2020

Hamersma discusses credible counterfactuals in Convivium article
"If the problem is an unknowable counterfactual – and it always is! – then a study can provide solid, trustworthy results if it has developed a credible substitute," writes Sarah Hamersma. "If we want to know the effects of stay-at-home orders on COVID-19 case growth, the challenge is to use all of the available information to estimate what case growth would have been in the absence of stay-at-home orders." Read Hamersma's full article, "Countering Counter-Factual COVID Confusion," that was published in Convivium.
7/13/2020

Maxwell School remembers renowned geographer Donald Meinig
Donald Meinig, a renowned figure in the field of cultural and historical geography, died on June 13 in Syracuse, at the age of 95. Among his signature accomplishments, Meinig was the author of the four volumes of The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, published by Yale University Press. He joined the Maxwell School faculty in 1959 and was named a full professor in 1962. Meinig chaired the department from 1968 to 1973, and finished out his career as Maxwell Professor of Geography.

7/13/2020

McCormick discusses the Mexican president's US visit with AP, CNN
"López Obrador's visit will allow [Trump] to showcase how he has bent Mexico to his will by reminding voters that this is a 'very good deal' for the US while signaling his achievements at strong-arming Mexico on immigration policies," Gladys McCormick told CNN. She also spoke with the Associated Press about President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's meeting with President Trump.
7/11/2020

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