Maxwell School News and Commentary
Banks quoted in Vox article on military deployment at US-Mexico border
While military deployment to the border by President Trump is "clearly legal," Professor of Practice William Banks questions "whether the wall construction itself is lawful."
Siddiki Article on Inclusion in Collaborative Governance Published in Policy and Society
Mitra discusses what India needs to do to attract global supply chains in Economic Times
"Attracting GSCs to India is actually very hard work, without having any attractive catchphrase. There is no strategy other than considerable additional investment and effort into infrastructure and skill-building, tackling power bottlenecks, reforms in labour and land regulations and keeping protectionist forces at bay," writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
See related: China, Economic Policy, India, International Agreements, Trade, United States
Ma comments on order to stop visas for skilled immigrants in Politico
Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology, assesses that Trump's executive order suspending the entry of foreign workers seeking H1-B visas "seriously undermines American leadership in fields such as technology and medicine where skilled immigrants serve as the backbone."
See related: Federal, U.S. Immigration, United States
Levinthal to serve as senior D.C. correspondent for Business Insider
Dave Levinthal '02 B.A. (PPhil) previously spent seven and a half years at the Center for Public Integrity, as an editor and senior reporter focused largely on federal politics.
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Dean’s Office, CPR fund summer project assistantships
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Connecting centre and locality: Political communication in early modern England
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McCormick is the School’s new diversity, equity and inclusion officer
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Gueorguiev, McDowell study on capital controls in China published
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Gadarian quoted in Scientific American on impact of COVID-19 on voting
"If Democrats are taking more precautions because of the coronavirus, we may see them not turn out as much as they would have without the pandemic," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
See related: COVID-19, U.S. Elections, United States