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Learn more Published Research Economics Familiarity Breeds Investment: Diaspora Networks and International Investment Authors: David Leblang What explains cross-national patterns of international portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI)? While existing explanations focus on the credibility of a policy maker’s commitment, we emphasize the role of diaspora networks. Learn more Published Research Fundamental Housing Policy Reforms to End Homelessness Authors: Edgar O. Olsen, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Brendan O'Flaherty (eds) The failure to offer assistance to all individuals of the types who become homeless is a major defect of the current system of low-income housing assistance. Fundamental reforms of the system that are justified on other grounds would eliminate this defect. Learn more Published Research New Roles for States in Health Reform Implementation Authors: Raymond C. Scheppach, Alan Weil State policies and implementation practices will largely determine whether the new federal health reform law translates into more affordable coverage and access to health care services. States will play particularly important roles with respect to Medicaid expansion, the creation of insurance exchanges, and the new market rules for insurance. Learn more Published Research Price Discovery in Emissions Permit Auctions Authors: William Shobe, Dallas Burtraw, Jacob Goeree, Charles Holt, Erica Myers, Karen Palmer Auctions are increasingly being used to allocate emissions allowances (“permits”) for cap and trade and common-pool resource management programs. These auctions create thick markets that can provide important information about changes in current market conditions. Learn more Published Research Economics The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes in Transition Economies Authors: David Leblang, Jeffry Frieden, Neven Valev Learn more Published Research Problem Solving in a Polarized Age: Comparative Effectiveness Research and the Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine Authors: Eric M. Patashnik, Alan S. Gerber This essay uses the case of the “medical evidence gap” to illustrate how polarization and party competition can undermine efforts to solve a societal problem. Policy experts associated with both parties agree that the lack of hard evidence about what treatments work best for patients with different conditions is a significant health care problem, and that greater investments in “comparative effectiveness research” (CER) would enable patients, providers, and payers to make more informed decisions. Learn more Published Research Ethics Between Reconstructions: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1891-1940 Authors: Jeffery A. Jenkins, Justin Peck, Vesla M. Weaver Prior analyses of congressional action on the issue of black civil rights have typically examined either of the two major Reconstructions. Our paper attempts to fill the large five-decade black box between the end of the First Reconstruction and the beginning of the Second, routinely skipped over in scholarship on Congress, parties, and racial politics. Learn more Published Research Social Entrepreneurship The interlinking of entrepreneurs, grassroots movements, public policy and hubs of innovation: The rise of Cleantech in New York City Authors: Bala Mulloth, Mel Horwitch Although increasingly complex, modern innovation is still largely viewed through the lenses of sectors and distinct venues—e.g. large corporate R&D and new product development, entrepreneurial small or new ventures, or public programs or projects. However, Cleantech innovation is different—more blended, networked and boundary spanning. Learn more Published Research Measuring the Size and Scope of the EU Interest Group Population Authors: Christine Mahoney, Arndt Wonka, Frank R. Baumgartner, Joost Berkhout Learn more Published Research Health Policy The Virtues of Pragmatism in Drug Policy Authors: Richard Bonnie This conference addresses “obstacles to development and use of pharmacotherapies in the treatment of addiction.” I will focus on the challenges of increasing use of medical agents if they are developed. Learn more Published Research Social Psychology Howard Zonana and the Transformation of Forensic Psychiatry Authors: Richard Bonnie In recognition of Howard Zonana’s contributions, I take stock of the progress of the field of forensic psychiatry over three decades. As forensic psychiatrists, you are the voice of psychiatry in the law and the interpreter of law to your colleagues in psychiatry. 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Published Research Ethics Should a Personality Disorder Qualify as a Mental Disease in Insanity Adjudication? Authors: Richard Bonnie The determinative issue in applying the insanity defense is whether the defendant experienced a legally relevant functional impairment at the time of the offense. Categorical exclusion of personality disorders from the definition of mental disease is clinically and morally arbitrary because it may lead to unfair conviction of a defendant with a personality disorder who actually experienced severe, legally relevant impairments at the time of the crime. Learn more
Published Research Economics Familiarity Breeds Investment: Diaspora Networks and International Investment Authors: David Leblang What explains cross-national patterns of international portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI)? While existing explanations focus on the credibility of a policy maker’s commitment, we emphasize the role of diaspora networks. Learn more
Published Research Fundamental Housing Policy Reforms to End Homelessness Authors: Edgar O. Olsen, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Brendan O'Flaherty (eds) The failure to offer assistance to all individuals of the types who become homeless is a major defect of the current system of low-income housing assistance. Fundamental reforms of the system that are justified on other grounds would eliminate this defect. Learn more
Published Research New Roles for States in Health Reform Implementation Authors: Raymond C. Scheppach, Alan Weil State policies and implementation practices will largely determine whether the new federal health reform law translates into more affordable coverage and access to health care services. States will play particularly important roles with respect to Medicaid expansion, the creation of insurance exchanges, and the new market rules for insurance. Learn more
Published Research Price Discovery in Emissions Permit Auctions Authors: William Shobe, Dallas Burtraw, Jacob Goeree, Charles Holt, Erica Myers, Karen Palmer Auctions are increasingly being used to allocate emissions allowances (“permits”) for cap and trade and common-pool resource management programs. These auctions create thick markets that can provide important information about changes in current market conditions. Learn more
Published Research Economics The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes in Transition Economies Authors: David Leblang, Jeffry Frieden, Neven Valev Learn more
Published Research Problem Solving in a Polarized Age: Comparative Effectiveness Research and the Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine Authors: Eric M. Patashnik, Alan S. Gerber This essay uses the case of the “medical evidence gap” to illustrate how polarization and party competition can undermine efforts to solve a societal problem. Policy experts associated with both parties agree that the lack of hard evidence about what treatments work best for patients with different conditions is a significant health care problem, and that greater investments in “comparative effectiveness research” (CER) would enable patients, providers, and payers to make more informed decisions. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Between Reconstructions: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1891-1940 Authors: Jeffery A. Jenkins, Justin Peck, Vesla M. Weaver Prior analyses of congressional action on the issue of black civil rights have typically examined either of the two major Reconstructions. Our paper attempts to fill the large five-decade black box between the end of the First Reconstruction and the beginning of the Second, routinely skipped over in scholarship on Congress, parties, and racial politics. Learn more
Published Research Social Entrepreneurship The interlinking of entrepreneurs, grassroots movements, public policy and hubs of innovation: The rise of Cleantech in New York City Authors: Bala Mulloth, Mel Horwitch Although increasingly complex, modern innovation is still largely viewed through the lenses of sectors and distinct venues—e.g. large corporate R&D and new product development, entrepreneurial small or new ventures, or public programs or projects. However, Cleantech innovation is different—more blended, networked and boundary spanning. Learn more
Published Research Measuring the Size and Scope of the EU Interest Group Population Authors: Christine Mahoney, Arndt Wonka, Frank R. Baumgartner, Joost Berkhout Learn more
Published Research Health Policy The Virtues of Pragmatism in Drug Policy Authors: Richard Bonnie This conference addresses “obstacles to development and use of pharmacotherapies in the treatment of addiction.” I will focus on the challenges of increasing use of medical agents if they are developed. Learn more
Published Research Social Psychology Howard Zonana and the Transformation of Forensic Psychiatry Authors: Richard Bonnie In recognition of Howard Zonana’s contributions, I take stock of the progress of the field of forensic psychiatry over three decades. As forensic psychiatrists, you are the voice of psychiatry in the law and the interpreter of law to your colleagues in psychiatry. Learn more