See you at APPAM!

We're excited to see you at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) conference from November 21-23.

• Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes will join a panel with other deans to discuss the role of public policy schools in shaping democracy policy.
• Current APPAM President Don Moynihan will participate in a roundtable session on easing administrative burdens in state government programs and then give the presidential address.
• Associate Professor Kathy Michelmore will receive the 2024 Kershaw Award.
• Several faculty members including Kevin Stange, Natasha Pilkauskas, Helen Levy, and Brian Jacob, as well as Ford School doctoral students, will present their research.

Be sure to visit our booth (#218) to connect with us and learn more.

In the news

"We have a huge array of different programs with the primary goal of reducing poverty and increasing income and economic security among [people], especially among families with children. But the way we’ve implemented those programs is fundamentally undermining that goal." Pamela Herd on the administrative burdens attached to many welfare programs.

Vox

“His base is not actually driven by extreme policy views. It seemed that the most consistent trend was just broad concerns about the economy.” Mara Ostfeld on how Trump won Michigan.

Michigan Public

“It’s eminently likely, especially with the shifts in Congress, that the electric vehicle tax credits could be in the crosshairs.” Barry Rabe.

Bridge Michigan

“[In the 2017 national security strategy] there was a big shift from the threat of terrorism...to Russia and China as the two biggest nation state threats to the United States...It was a shift for the government to reorient away from the post 9/11 world of counterterrorism...The Biden Administration has for the most part continued on that approach.” Javed Ali on the shift from the threat of terrorism to nation state threats in U.S. national security policy.

Michigan Public

“Assuming that he follows through with his proposal to apply a 10 percent (or 20 percent) tariff on all imports from all countries, and that many of those countries retaliate (as they did when he used tariffs in 2018), the effect will be to largely cut the U.S. off from the world trading system, substantially reducing both our imports and our exports.” Alan Deardorff.

Inc

“The overall political climate has changed toward one where I think free trade does not carry the power that it used to. There is more of a nationalistic, buy American component to policymaking on both sides of the aisle in America.” Jonathan Hanson.

CBC

“If you fail to appeal to some of the things that Michigan cares a lot about, that means you’re for sure failing to appeal to Wisconsin and you’re failing to appeal to Pennsylvania and you may be failing to appeal to North Carolina, and that’s a bad record. You’ve lost then.” Jenna Bednar on Michigan’s status as a bellwether for the presidential election.

The Associated Press