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2021 AAPSS Fellows Announced
Announcements
March 9, 2021

2021 AAPSS Fellows Announced

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Webinar: We Can Do Better: Cross-System Approaches for Addressing Child Maltreatment
International Debate
March 2, 2021

Webinar: We Can Do Better: Cross-System Approaches for Addressing Child Maltreatment

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Watch AAPSS Fellows Induction Event: Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?
Announcements
January 14, 2021

Watch AAPSS Fellows Induction Event: Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?

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‘The Idea of ‘Use’ is Important’: AAPSS and the Role of the Moynihan Prize
Announcements
September 3, 2020

‘The Idea of ‘Use’ is Important’: AAPSS and the Role of the Moynihan Prize

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AAPSS Seeks Papers on Mitigating Inequalities Spotlighted by COVID

AAPSS Seeks Papers on Mitigating Inequalities Spotlighted by COVID

With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting nearly every area of household health, social, and economic well-being, individuals and communities across all parts of […]

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AAPSS Names Five 2020 Fellows

AAPSS Names Five 2020 Fellows

Swelling its total roll call of fellows to 140 elected in the past two decades, the directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science have elected five distinguished scholars to be inducted as fellows of the AAPSS. Katherine Cramer, Eric Foner, Helen Milner, Mario Small, and Bruce Western will be inducted at a ceremony in October.

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Samantha Power on the Nexus Between Academe and Policy

Samantha Power on the Nexus Between Academe and Policy

Just after Samantha Power’s American Academy of Political and Social Science Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize lecture earlier this month, Social Science Space flagged her down to get some advice on navigating these abutting realms.

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Video: Evidence-Based Policy in the Trump Era

Video: Evidence-Based Policy in the Trump Era

New Video highlighting the July 19th session held at the Brookings Institution on the new 2018 volume of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Featuring Sen. Todd Young (R) & Sen. Tom Carper (D), assessing how ‘evidence in public policy is faring, currently, in the Trump administration.

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AAPSS Names 2018 Fellows

AAPSS Names 2018 Fellows

The American Academy of Political and Social Science will induct the organizer of the American Opportunity Survey and a professor of social work who focuses on how public policy affects children and families as two of the five eminent scholars to be inducted as fellows of the academy this year.

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Nominations Sought for 2019 AAPSS’ Moynihan Prize

Nominations Sought for 2019 AAPSS’ Moynihan Prize

The American Academy of Political and Social Science welcomes nominations for the 2019 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize, with a deadline of October 17 for letters of nomination to be submitted.

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Alan Krueger: Where Does Public Policy Fit in a Gig Economy?

Alan Krueger: Where Does Public Policy Fit in a Gig Economy?

American labor law and social programs were developed in an age where workers labored for a company and could plan to be there for years, if not a lifetime. The velocity of the gig economy’s expansion has left policymakers far behind, says economist Alan Kruger, and he’d like to bring them up to speed.

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Alan Kruger on the Best Recipe for Policy

Alan Kruger on the Best Recipe for Policy

Alan B. Krueger, presently the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Princeton and formerly chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council […]

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