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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Note to fellow AWPA-ers: these comments provide a valuable opportunity for self-evaluation in 2018). 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.

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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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COVID-19 and the Underlying Political Impact on the Public Education System

The Lowe Down

For the 2020-2021 academic year, public schools had to implement various policies regarding social distancing and masking to be in accordance with the new federal, state, and local laws. As a result, I gather additional county-level data on Trump vote shares, poverty shares for families ages 5-17, and non-white population shares.