Most of you reading this blog post received the admission decision you were hoping to get when you applied to SIPA this year. You should be proud of your achievement. There was a competitive applicant pool and your application was exemplary. And now that the celebrations have died down a bit, I wanted to recap…
Panelists consider income inequality, media, and 2016 election
Joseph Stiglitz, Patricia Cohen, and Michael Massing examine how concerns about inequality gained media spotlight “The 1 percent has been a really useful framing device,” said economics reporter Patricia Cohen of the New York Times, “but I think it’s more a question now of the 0.01 percent or 0.001 percent, in terms of that concentration…
Paul Lagunes discusses new book on corruption, greed
Paul Lagunes, an assistant professor of international and public affairs, will complete his third year as a SIPA faculty member this June. Working in collaboration with Susan Rose-Ackerman of Yale University, Lagunes co-edited the recently released book Greed, Corruption, and the Modern State (Edward Elgar, 2015), a collection of new essays that provide diverse perspectives…
PEPM deadline is March 1
While this blog is dedicated to SIPA’s two-year master’s degree programs, I know occasionally we get some readers who are also interested in the one-year PEPM program. Thus, I wanted to remind those applicants of the program’s upcoming deadline. Here’s a message from the PEPM Coordinator, Christine Francis: March 1st is the final application deadline to apply for…
Q&A with SIPA Fellow and author Hollie Russon Gilman
Hollie Russon Gilman, a postdoctoral scholar and fellow in technology and public policy at SIPA, is an expert in technology, civic engagement, and governance. Gilman recently published the book Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America as part of a series from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center entitled Innovative Governance in the 21st Century. She is…
