New Books in Public Policy

Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
1251
Mical Raz, "Abusive Policies: How the American ...
Interview with Mical Raz
44 min
1252
The Role of Community Colleges in Higher Educat...
An interview with Penny Wills
60 min
1253
Tony Tekaroniake Evans, "Teaching Native Pride:...
An interview with Tony Tekaroniake Evans
67 min
1254
B. Kilpatrick and M. Patel, "Estate Regeneratio...
An interview with Brendan Kilpatrick and Manisha Patel
45 min
1255
T. Maschi and K. Morgen, "Aging Behind Prison W...
Interview with Tina Maschi
60 min
1256
K. M. Broton and C. L. Cady, "Food Insecurity o...
An interview with Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady
69 min
1257
Barbara Dennis, "Walking with Strangers: Critic...
An interview with Barbara Dennis
73 min
1258
Michael Kagan, "The Battle to Stay in America: ...
An interview with Michael Kagan
58 min
1259
Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choi...
Ayres and Vars put forward creative and practical solutions, proposing legislative reform which will reduce gun deaths....
59 min
1260
Kimberley Brownlee, "Being Sure of Each Other: ...
Brownlee contends that all humans have basic needs for human interaction. Since such needs are fundamental for survival, they should be regarded as a human right....
39 min
1261
O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: Th...
O. Carter Snead defines for us what the term “public bioethics” encompasses and provides a much-needed genealogy of the field....
125 min
1262
Ashley E. Lucas, "Prison Theatre and the Global...
One place that might surprise a lot of people is the popularity of performances staged by incarcerated persons...
60 min
1263
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politi...
Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...
44 min
1264
Claire Herbert, "A Detroit Story: Urban Decline...
Herbert examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades...
38 min
1265
Matthew H. Rafalow, "Digital Divisions: How Sch...
Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...
48 min
1266
Jennifer M. Randles, "Essential Dads: The Inequ...
Randles shares the stories of more than 60 marginalized men as they sought to become more engaged parents through a government-supported “responsible” fatherhood program...
57 min
1267
Amy Bucher, "Engaged: Designing for Behavior Ch...
Bucher analyzes both the barriers and levers to achieving behavioral change...
33 min
1268
Michael Mascarenhas, "Lessons in Environmental ...
39 min
1269
Joshua Gans, "The Pandemic Information Gap and ...
Gans' central thesis is that "at their heart, pandemics are an information problem. Solve the information problem and you can defeat the virus”.
35 min
1270
L. L. Paterson and I. N. Gregory, "Representati...
Paterson and Gregory explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques from linguistics and geography to bring fresh insights to the study of poverty....
42 min
1271
Douglas Kelbaugh, "The Urban Fix: Resilient Cit...
Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change...
39 min
1272
Katja M. Guenther, "The Lives and Deaths of She...
Guenther takes us inside one of the country's highest-intake animal shelters....
81 min
1273
Lindsay Farmer, "Making the Modern Criminal Law...
Lindsay Farmer offers a historical and conceptual analysis of theories of criminalization. The book shows how criminalization is inextricably linked to the making of the modern criminal law...
60 min
1274
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ...
Nadal examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system. Intertwining legal cases, academic research, and popular media,..
33 min
1275
Kathryn A. Mariner, "Contingent Kinship: The Fl...
Mariner offers an ethnography of adoption processes in the United States through the inner workings of a private adoption agency in Chicago, IL...
34 min