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Reforming Primary Elections: Voters, Campaigns, and the Future of Congressional Politics
Maxwell School alumnus and Assistant Teaching Professor Richard Barton ’15 M.A. (PSc) has co-edited a book that examines how primary elections have changed over the past decade and why they often yield extreme or unpopular candidates.
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Heflin Discusses SNAP Work Requirements, Food Insecurity Data in Mother Jones Article
Around half of early retirements between the ages of 55 and 65 are the result of health issues or difficulties maintaining employment, often compounded by challenging state processes to seek exemption from it, says Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs. “It’s really important for states to be thinking about the administrative burden.”
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Heflin Discusses Food Insecurity on WCNY’S ‘CONNECT NY’
“I think it's important to note that while poverty is a really significant risk factor for food insecurity, there are more people that live above the poverty line, actually, who are food insecure. It is the working poor. It's people that actually earn too much to potentially qualify for SNAP,” says Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs.
See related: Food Security, New York State, Nutrition, State & Local
Himmelreich Talks to Central Current About Flock Safety Keeping Syracuse Drivers’ ‘Anonymized’ Data
“The images that these cameras capture have a lot of information. Even when you anonymize them by throwing away metadata, you can figure out where the image was taken,” says Johannes Himmelreich, associate professor of public administration and international affairs. “After all, you still see the street and everything around the car. So, I doubt that the anonymization is robust.”
See related: Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, New York State, State & Local
Pralle Quoted in Seattle Times Article on Outdated Skagit County Flood Maps
The maps are a tool to communicate more realistic flood risks to vulnerable groups, says Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science. You can plug your address into a FEMA webpage and it will tell you your property’s flood risk. “But,” Pralle says, “if you don’t know where the risky areas are, none of that works.”
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Reeher Speaks With AFP, The Guardian, The Hill and Newsweek About Mamdani’s Win in NYC
“Mamdani’s got to get his ideas realized in policy, and New York is notoriously difficult to govern. It’s arguably the second hardest political job in the United States, after the president. So whatever he’s able to accomplish, it won’t be easy,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
See related: New York City, State & Local, U.S. Elections
Heflin Speaks With Newsweek About the Impact of Delayed SNAP Benefits
“22.4 million households across America will be disrupted if the benefits are not disbursed on time. And the total impact of the delay in SNAP benefits will ripple throughout the local economy,” says Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs.
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Pete Buttigieg Driven by ‘Propulsion’—Not ‘Despondency’
The former U.S. Secretary of Transportation joined Professor Jay Golden for a capacity event that covered environmental issues, leadership, democracy and more.
At 27, Maxwell Alumna Is Long Island’s Youngest Village Clerk
Katherine Hannon ’20 B.A. (PSc) got started as an intern assisting the mayor with special projects.
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What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence
This September 2025 Research to Practice Brief summarizes "What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence among New York State Municipal Leaders," co-authored by Nicholas Croce (Syracuse University) & Saba Siddiki (Syracuse University).
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Gadarian Speaks With NBC News About the Policy Divide Between Blue and Red States
“States are supposed to be a laboratory for experimentation. What’s interesting about this moment is that [some] states are now a laboratory for what they perceive to be a hostile federal government,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking.
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Gadarian Quoted in Christian Science Monitor Article on Gov. Newsom’s Challenges to President Trump
“They have their own constituencies that they are there to represent, but also they have the ability to capture media attention and be very clear and forceful, because they don’t have to deal with Trump in the Washington policymaking arena,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking.
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How Health Departments Use Wastewater Surveillance Data for Public Health Planning, Intervention
The article, co-authored by public health professors David Larsen and Bhavneet Walia along with Nicole Pulido, a research associate in the Public Health Department, was published in BMC Public Health.
Pralle Speaks With Texas Tribune About Camp Mystic, Flood Zones
“We overbuild in flood zones everywhere across the country…but with camps it's especially worrisome. You're not just putting yourself at risk, you're putting these children at risk who you're supposed to be looking out for their safety,” says Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science.
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Reeher Weighs In on Redistricting Arms Race in The Hill
“Redrawing districts in between the decennial censuses will just lead to a redistricting arms race,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science. “What both parties are doing is bad for the political system generally, the state legislatures and the Congress, and the citizens.”
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Gadarian Quoted in Fortune Article on Zohran Mamdani and Gen Z
“We’re not seeing young people go live on communes,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking. “They’re working at banks, they’re starting gig economies, they’re working in high tech. If that’s not capitalism, I’m not clear what would be.”
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Reeher Quoted in The Hill Articles on NYC Democratic Mayoral Nominee Zohran Mamdani
“His intense ground game—you can’t underestimate the power of that,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science. “Even from political science research, we know that the most effective way to get people to turn out is face-to-face contact. He’s doing a lot of that. …He’s got tons of volunteers.”
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Zhang Weighs In on the AI Moratorium Defeat in MIT Technology Review Article
Baobao Zhang, Maxwell Dean Associate Professor of the Politics of AI, says that the administration may have been willing to give up on the moratorium in order to push through the rest of the bill by its self-imposed Independence Day deadline.
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Barton Discusses Gerrymandering, Uncompetitive Elections With GD Politics and Washington Post
“In theory, what we want is the election that really decides who is going to serve in government to be one that was a higher-turnout election where campaigns, candidates, platforms, policies made some sort of difference in the outcome,” says Assistant Teaching Professor Richard Barton. “But most of those general elections are just not competitive, and they’re not consequential.”
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Do Small Towns Have Big Smart City Dreams?
The article, co-authored by Austin Zwick, associate teaching professor of policy studies, was published in State and Local Government Review.
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