The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Politics of Crisis Response (B)

Publication Date: March 14, 2013

Following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in late April 2010, the Obama administration organized a massive response operation to contain the enormous amount of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico. Attracting intense public...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Politics of Crisis Response (A)

Publication Date: February 25, 2013

Following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in late April 2010, the Obama administration organized a massive response operation to contain the enormous amount of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico. Attracting intense public...

Shelley Metzenbaum and Improving Federal Government Performance

Publication Date: February 06, 2013

In late September 2009, nine months after he took office, President Barack Obama appointed Shelley Metzenbaum to the position of associate director for performance and personnel management at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget...

Yogyakarta Bus Terminal: The Private Provision of Municipal Infrastructure

Publication Date: January 10, 2013

In January 2009, Herry Zudianto, the Mayor of Yogyakarta, was reflecting on the apparent failure of his first effort to involve the private sector in the financing and provision of municipal infrastructure. Seven years earlier the City had...

Jakarta’s Transportation Problems

Publication Date: December 7, 2012

In January 2011 senior Indonesian officials were contemplating the results of a new travel survey that showed that the number of trips in the Jakarta metropolitan area was growing steadily while the share of trips made on public transportation...

Social Media and the Planned Parenthood/ Susan G. Komen for the Cure Controversy

Publication Date: December 07, 2012

In the early afternoon of Tuesday, January 31, 2012, the Associated Press released what would soon become a major news story, writing: The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with...

Confronting a Pandemic in a Home Rule State: The Indiana State Department of Health Responds to H1N1

Publication Date: December 03, 2012

When Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Judy Monroe learned of the emergence of H1N1 (commonly referred to as Swine Flu) in late April 2009, she had to quickly figure out how to coordinate an effective response within her states highly...

Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards 2017-2025

Publication Date: December 03, 2012

In December 2011, the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency issued a joint proposal to dramatically increase fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of passenger...

A Prescription for Change: The 2010 Overhaul of the American Health Care System

Publication Date: November 26, 2012

In March 2010, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a contentious, massive bill representing the most significant change to federal health care policy since Medicare. The legislation...

New York City Center for Economic Opportunity: An Evidence-Based Approach to Alleviate Poverty

Publication Date: November 08, 2012

In late 2006, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg created the Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO). Born out of recommendations made by the Bloomberg appointed public-private Commission for Economic Opportunity, CEO was designed to be an...

Innovation Clusters in the Global Economy: The Welfare Technology Region in Denmark

Publication Date: November 07, 2012

In February 2012, Lars Kolind, chairman of Welfare Tech Region, a cluster organization in Southern Denmark that promotes the use of technology to assist people with daily living activities, considered the challenges that the cluster...

Iceland's Energy Policy: Finding the Right Path Forward

Publication Date: October 31, 2012

Iceland has two unique features. First it has one of the most unique landscapes in the world. A country twice the size of Switzerland, it has only 300,000 inhabitants and thus most of its regions are sparsely inhabited. Second, it also has...