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December 2016 | Does Public Administration Want Diversity…Really? By Leisha DeHart Davis

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

But one commenter wondered why PMRA had not taken a similar stance when North Carolina passed a law in 2013 that undercut voting rights that disproportionately affected minority citizens (subsequently invalidated by the U.S. Court of Appeals). .

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Income Inequality and Democratic Backsliding

The Lowe Down

Democracy is made up of factors such as voting rights, freedom of the governed, and minority rights. Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

2013) suggests that social activism in online spaces such as YouTube is not easily defined, but is adapted to suit movement needs—which makes social media a popular and flexible venue for activism but also highlights the challenges for scholars studying such venues. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). A study by Vragara et al.,

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DC's crime bill overturned by Congress

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Senate votes to block controversial DC crime bill ," CNN I haven't written a blog entry on this, just comments, and comments on Washington Post article. In this case, how the law would be perceived in the world of public opinion, and the competition between Republicans and Democrats. This letter to the editor (" The D.C.

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(Reprint) Electing a Federal Attorney General and a Chief Inspector General | Expanding Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The justification of this concept is that law belongs to "the people" and is supposed to be free of bias. In fact I wrote about this wrt education test scandals in DC in 2013: -- " Why inspector generals often don't seek the whole truth. " I have to believe my alternative would be better. Federal Inspector Generals.

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