Maxwell School News and Commentary

Dickey weighs in on USDA union disagreement in Bloomberg Law article

July 21, 2020

See related: Agriculture, Federal, Labor, United States

Barkun cited in VICE articles on conspiracy theories

According to Michael Barkun, professor emeritus of political science, three core principles characterize most conspiracy theories. First, the belief that nothing happens by accident or coincidence. Secondly, that nothing is as it seems: The "appearance of innocence" is to be suspected. Finally, the belief that everything is connected through a hidden pattern.

July 20, 2020

See related: Government, Media & Journalism, United States

Gadarian quoted in NY Times article on face mask use in the US

"The big takeaway of all of the data is partisanship is the big determinant of all of the behavior," says Associate Professor of Political Science Shana Gadarian.

July 20, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Political Parties, United States

Lovely comments on Barr's speech on pro-China policies in Washington Post

July 20, 2020

See related: China, Economic Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy, United States

NIA funds multi-university aging and policy center

A consortium of three Upstate New York universities has received a 5-year, $1.5-million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to fund the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS), headquartered at Syracuse University.
July 17, 2020

See related: Aging, Grant Awards, State & Local

Estevez-Abe explains Japan's success with coronavirus in Newsweek

July 17, 2020

See related: COVID-19, East Asia

Lerner Center research cited in NYT article on working moms, COVID-19

Lerner Postdoctoral Scholar Danielle Rhubart's research found that over 80 percent of U.S. adults who weren’t working because they had to care for their children who were not in school or day care were women.

July 15, 2020

See related: Child & Elder Care, COVID-19, Gender and Sex, United States

Barkun quoted in Foreign Policy article on QAnon movement

"If there is any lesson to be taken from this bizarre episode, it is that, in the age of Trump, no claim seems too preposterous to find an audience and that, in the age of the internet and social media, these beliefs and those willing to accept them are only too easy to bring together," says Michael Barkun, professor emeritus of political science. He was cited in the Foreign Policy article "QAnon’s Madness Is Turning Canadians Into Potential Assassins."
July 15, 2020

See related: Government, Media & Journalism, United States

Morgan examines whether or not the EU is imperialist in Journal of European Public Policy article

Glyn Morgan
July 14, 2020

See related: Europe

Cademartori bequest supports Maxwell School undergraduates

Alumnus Dominick Cademartori ’52 B.A. (Econ) left a $30,000 gift to Maxwell School for undergraduate students majoring in history or economics in his will, which is intended to extend the legacy of his own studies as a first-generation American and first-generation college student for whom college was nearly discontinued owing to financial hardship.

July 14, 2020

See related: Giving

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