Chelsea Lenhart*, MPA, Staff Writer, Brief Policy Perspectives Tickets are already on sale for the 2016 March Madness tournament, with prices ranging from $15 for a single… Read more “Opinion: Paying College Athletes Isn’t as Easy as Writing a Check”

Annette Beck, MPA Introduction Sequesters are designed to reduce spending, however they often fail in this regard and instead create real harms: endangering public safety, forcing federal… Read more “Sequestration: An Extreme Consequence of Congress’ Ineffectuality”

Jerry Wei, MPP Tuesday, November 3, 2015 was Election Day in America.  What was at stake? These were local and state elections, including a high profile fight… Read more “Do Democrats Also Engage in Voter Suppression?”

Jerry Wei, MPP On October 12th, Angus Deaton, a Princeton economist, won the Nobel Prize in economics for his “analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.” The economist… Read more “Saving the World’s Poor: A Nobel Prize Winner on Development”

Dr. Kathryn E. Newcomer, Director, The Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration Jerry Wei provides great food for thought in his article on metrics. He is… Read more “Data-Driven Decision-Making, Results-Based Management, Big Data, Data Analytics – The New Normal?”

Jerry Wei, MPP A proliferation of data has increasingly come to define the modern condition. We now use data to track fitness (Fitbit), hail cabs (Uber), and… Read more “A Good Metric is Hard to Find”

Marisa Kanof, MPP – Executive Editor of Brief Policy Perspectives Hey Trachtenbergers! Brief Policy Perspectives is slated to launch our first content on Wednesday September 23, but… Read more “Now Soliciting Content for Brief Policy Perspectives!”

Hey TBergers! Policy Perspectives Journal editors Monika Jansen and Charlotte Nugent are excited to announce that the 2015 – 2016 school year will feature a blog to… Read more “Coming Soon!”