New Article by Laura Evans to Be Published in APSR
Assistant Professor Laura Evans' new article, “Expertise and Scale of Conflict: Governments as Advocates in American Indian Politics,” is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, the leading journal of political science research.
The article is of great significance as the first piece on American Indian politics published in APSR.
Bill Zumeta Co-Editor of JCPA Special Issue
Professor Bill Zumeta is the co-editor (with Daniel Levy of the University at Albany–SUNY) of a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis titled, “Private Higher Education and Public Policy: A Comparative Global View” (90 KB PDF). Several years in the making, this issue examines the role of public policy in the recent strong growth in importance of nonpublic higher education in many parts of the world.
Ken Smith On the Road for FAF Research
Senior Lecturer Ken Smith was recently commissioned by the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) to be a member of a team that conducts research to determine the future scope of standards-setting for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB).
Smith and colleagues have so far travelled to Atlanta, Ga.; New York, N.Y.; Stamford, Conn.; Williamsburg, Va.; Washington, D.C.; San Antonio, Texas; Birmingham, Ala.; and Chicago, Ill. to seek information from colleagues such as which organizations they look to for accountability guidance, the areas where guidance is strong, where it can be improved, and where it goes too far.
Smith and the team are expected to complete their work early in the fourth quarter of 2011.
New Book by Professor Laura Evans
Assistant Professor Laura Evans has a new book out titled Power from Powerlessness: Tribal Governments, Institutional Niches, and American Federalism published by Oxford University Press.
Just Out: "State of Washington's Children 2011"
Washington KIDS COUNT (WKC), a project of the former Human Services Policy Center at the Evans School, has released “The State of Washington’s Children 2011,” an overview of child and family well-being in 2010 in Washington state. The report provides vital statistics on the over 1.5 million children under 18 living in Washington.
Ann Bostrom Contributes to Institute of Medicine Report on Enhancing Food Safety
Each year in the United States about 76 million foodborne illnesses are caused by Escherichia coli, Salmonella and other bacteria, viruses, parasites, and chemical residues. Congress asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to examine the gaps in the current food safety system, and Evans School Professor Ann Bostrom was invited to be a member of the IOM committee.
Global Governance: Sanjeev Khagram
Evans School Associate Professor Sanjeev Khagram researches global governance. The form of global governance that most interests Khagram currently is what he calls global action networks (GANs), which have emerged to address the world’s most pressing and wicked challenges: finance, poverty, violent conflict, climate change, pandemics, and corruption, among others.
Voluntary Regulation and Accountability in the Global NGO Sector: Mary Kay Gugerty
Evans School Associate Professor Mary Kay Gugerty researches voluntary regulation and accountability in the global nonprofit and NGO sector. With colleague Professor Aseem Prakash, Department of Political Science, University of Washington and Adjunct Professor of Public Affairs at the Evans School, Gugerty studies the mechanisms that nonprofits use to signal their trustworthiness and credibility to donors and other stakeholders.
Federalism and Cooperation: Laura Evans
Evans School Assistant Professor Laura Evans studies federalism in the United States, focusing primarily on the question of what scenarios allow various governments to get along. In her forthcoming book Power from Powerlessness: Tribal Governments, Institutional Niches, and American Federalism (2011), Evans investigates American Indian tribal governments and their relations with localities, states, and the federal government in the Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Upper Plains from the 1980s to the 2000s.
Coordinated Networks and Wicked Problems: Joaquin Herranz, Jr.
Evans School Assistant Professor Joaquín Herranz, Jr.'s research demonstrates how coordinated networks of government, nonprofit, and for-profit governing bodies have emerged in response to poverty, climate change, and global financial crises.To learn more about how network coordination strategy influences the evolution of a multisectoral network, Herranz recently analyzed The Work Place in Boston, Massachusetts.
