New Books in Public Policy
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Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the J...
The book looks at the history of institutionalized racism around the U.S., showing that laws, policies, and entitlements in every region of the country...
40 min
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Jessica A. J. Rich, "State-Sponsored Activism: ...
Rich's book is a fascinating and important examination of civil-state relations, social movements, and bureaucracies all centering around AIDS/HIV policy as the nexus of analysis.
49 min
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Jonathan Marks, "The Perils of Partnership: Ind...
22 min
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Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: Th...
We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...
35 min
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Mollie Gerver, "The Ethics and Practice of Refu...
Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory...
59 min
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Abraham A. Singer, "The Form of the Firm: A Nor...
Abraham Singer essentially marries together two disciplinary schools of thought and approaches to understand and consider the corporate firm...
43 min
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Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient" (U...
Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it...
48 min
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William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's...
The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting investment in people and infrastructure...
42 min
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Christof Spieler, "Trains, Buses, People: An Op...
"Trains, Buses, People' is a fascinating book about “How To” develop better transportation modes for US cities and urban...
46 min
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Jill Stauffer, "Ethical Loneliness: The Injusti...
Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjust treatment and dehumanization can experience further harm when individuals and institutions will not or cannot hear the survivors’ claims...
59 min
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Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday S...
Who is excluded from science?
47 min
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Andra Gillespie, "Race and the Obama Administra...
Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...
23 min
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Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdes...
Dr. Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about the Anthropocene is not only how much impact humans have had, but how much deliberate shaping humans will do...
50 min
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Jamila Lee-Johnson, and Ashley Gaskew, "Critica...
Jamila and Ashley talk to us about the importance of centering voices and perspectives that have been traditionally marginalized in the academy...
49 min
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Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
What does it take for all girls to achieve?
24 min
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Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Br...
Alison Schrager is not a typical economist...
36 min
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Max Felker-Kantor, "Policing Los Angeles: Race,...
In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny...
75 min
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Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rig...
Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...
21 min
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Sarah Reckhow, "Outside Money in School Board E...
Who funds local school board elections?
24 min
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John Komlos, "Foundations of Real-World Economi...
Komlos argues that the 2008 financial crisis, the rise of Trumpism and the other populist movements which have followed in their wake ‘have grown out of the frustrations of those hurt by the economic policies advocated by conventional economists....
32 min
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Kevin T. Smiley, "Market Cities, People Cities:...
Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city?
40 min
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Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth...
Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...
56 min
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Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr., "Reading Politics with ...
Schmidt puts himself and the reader into conversation with Machiavelli, exploring Machiavelli’s thinking and how Machiavelli explains his theories...
42 min
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Tom Wheeler, "From Gutenberg to Google: The His...
Wheeler is a former President of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and former CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association...
56 min
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Candis Watts Smith, "Black Politics in Transiti...
Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...
20 min