New Books in Public Policy
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Andrew Leigh, "Randomistas: How Radical Researc...
Randomized control trials, called RCT’s, have a logic so simple that anyone can understand how they work and even run them themselves...
38 min
1402
Sara Hughes, "Repowering Cities: Governing Clim...
Hughes creatively combines the literature on cities with a comparative case study of three American cities to explore how New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto moved from making commitments to fulfilling them...
50 min
1403
Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest ...
Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...
56 min
1404
Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert:...
Jones Allen investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected...
44 min
1405
Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulanc...
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city?
58 min
1406
Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need to Talk About...
Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health...
24 min
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Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We...
Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...
57 min
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Lana Dee Povitz, "Stirrings: How Activist New ...
Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net...
35 min
1409
Steven Higashide, "Better Buses, Better Cities ...
Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reform—such as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight,
46 min
1410
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1411
Daniel Skinner, "Medical Necessity: Health Care...
Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining medical necessity...
29 min
1412
Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregati...
Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist practices and the modern school choice movement...
28 min
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Virginia Eubanks, "Automating Inequality: How H...
Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America...
79 min
1414
Caitlin Frances Bruce, "Painting Publics: Trans...
Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities...
62 min
1415
Robert Frank, "Under the Influence: Putting Pee...
Frank describes how the strongest predictor of our willingness to support climate-friendly policies, install solar panels, or buy an electric car is the number of people we know who have already done so...
26 min
1416
Jodie Adams Kirshner, "Broke: Hardship and Resi...
Kirshner tells the story of the people of Detroit before, during, and after its bankruptcy, offering lessons about urban governance, post-industrial economics, development, and the usefulness of bankruptcy itself as a tool to aid U.S. cities...
25 min
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Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title...
"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed
60 min
1418
David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe, "Obstacle Cour...
It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care...
34 min
1419
T. Mose "The Playdate" (NYU Press, 2016) and L....
In this episode we consider vital role of play, and what it does to expand a child’s creativity and resilience...
28 min
1420
Russell A. Newman, "The Paradoxes of Network Ne...
Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...
39 min
1421
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min
1422
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
1423
Michael Menser, "We Decide!: Theories and Cases...
Menser a comprehensive treatment of participatory democracy, in which he delves into the history of democracy and offers an optimistic vision of the future of democratic participation in various forms and at different scales...
48 min
1424
Leah Stokes, "Short Circuiting Policy: Interest...
44 min
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Daniel Denvir, "All-American Nativism: How the ...
The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people,..
40 min