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2/Media certificate grows PUBLIC POLICY 6/DCID launches tax program 8/Detect bombs, not scissors 10/Grouping deviant youth 13/Kelley wins NSF grant 14/Alumni news Focus Woodruff, Brooks to teach at Institute Duke, Berkeley wo distinguished journal- politics, ranging from questions of written in response to a query partner to explore ists will join the Institute bias to the impact of 24/7 cable posed by the visiting professor. long-term global T faculty to conduct semi- and Internet news on the politi- Brooks’ course will be for half- nars next fall in the DeWitt cal process. credit. policy strategies Wallace Center for Media and David Brooks, a New York Ellen Mickiewicz, director of Democracy. Times columnist and regular com- the DeWitt Wallace Center for The Institute is teaming up with Award-winning TV journalist mentator on PBS’ “The News- Media and Democracy and a pro- the Institute of International Judy Woodruff (Duke ’68), host- hour with Jim fessor of PPS and political sci- Studies (IIS) at the University of ed CNN’s “Inside Politics” for 12 Lehrer” will ence, said both journalists’ expe- California-Berkeley to launch a years until June 2005, when she teach “Policy rience at the highest levels of U.S. series of research initiatives on left to pursue Wars: Liberal- media provide an unparalleled long-term U.S.policy approach- interests in ism and Con- learning opportunity for students es to global strategic challenges. teaching, servatism in and faculty. The Project on America’s writing and America.” Woodruff covered many of the Global Strategic Challenges will public speak- The course major events of the last three assess the U.S. “war of ideas” ing. She will will examine decades, including eight presiden- that poses American democracy teach “Media the evolution of contemporary tial races and the Sept. 11 terror- against Islamic fundamentalism; and Politics: American political ideology and ist attacks. She was chief White U.S.policies regarding emerging The Clash of its impact on policymaking. House correspondent for NBC nations such as China; and the Ideology, Technology and Owner- Both courses have limited from 1977 to 1982, and covered intersection of international poli- ship.” The course will focus on enrollment, and students will be Washington for the “Today” show. tics,life sciences and technolo- issues in contemporary press and selected based on a short essay Beginning in 1984 (Please see page 5) gy. A book, arti- (Please see page 7)

Duke, BCBSNC Foundation launch health policy scholars program

Three students, government officials, health care including Duke professionals and other leaders PPS major Vijay assess and expand community Brihmadesam, programs to help the uninsured. have been se- The Institute is providing an lected as the first additional $6,000 for scholars’ Jim Bernstein support, while the Center for Conover Health Policy Health Policy will provide in-kind LES TODD Scholars in a new program set up contributions. by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield The students will work on of North Carolina Foundation health policy issues related to Jared Diamond, the 2006 Crown Lecturer in Ethics, suggested Americans (BCBSNC Foundation) and the access to health care. Their work need to re-examine their values during an address to more than 500 people Institute’s Center for Health Policy. will include implementing recom- at the Institute Feb. 16. Guests included (from left, front row) Paula Crown, The four-year, $303,000 initia- mendations to strengthen the med- Cynthia and Richard Brodhead, and Renée and Lester Crown. Please tive aims to help state and local ical safety net in (Please see page 11) see story, page 2. InstituteUpdates

Crises require us to reappraise Media certificate our values, beliefs, Diamond says enrollment grows rom divisive election campaigns to he question isn’t if Americans will natural disasters to terrorist attacks, reduce their high rates of consump- F current events provide ample oppor- T tion, says Jared Diamond—but when tunities to consider how journalists frame and how. and interpret stories for mass consumption. “It’s going to have to happen… either Through the DeWitt Wallace Center for pleasantly in ways we choose, or unpleasantly Media and Democracy, students are now in ways we don’t choose,” Diamond said. able to explore the intersection of media Diamond, the 2006 Crown Lecturer in and policy while earning a Certificate in Ethics, spoke Feb. 16 to more than 500 peo- Policy Journalism and Media Studies. ple gathered in Fleishman Commons, filling The certificate program is attracting a an overflow room and crowding the Insti- growing number of students. Starting with tute’s upper-level balconies. Duke Trustee fewer than 10 graduates in 2003, the pro- Paula Crown and members of the Crown gram expects to graduate 40 in 2007. It is family attended. now Duke’s second largest certificate Diamond’s lecture focused on parallels program. between individual approaches to dealing “We’ve been thrilled at how many stu- with personal crises and societal responses to dents want to pursue the certificate,” says crises that threaten lifestyles, long-held beliefs Center Research Director Ken Rogerson, and basic survival. The developed world is who teaches the capstone course. “There now in such a crisis, he said. Americans con- is so much demand that we could easily fill fuse excess consumption with a high standard twice as many courses.” of living, pursue isolationist foreign policies “Yes, it is non-negotiable with terrorists… Students are required to take a core and cling to an emphasis on the individual (But) we have to negotiate with ourselves. Is course on journalism ethics; one practical rather than the collective good, he said. our own self-defined identity working for us course in television, magazine or newspa- As a result, “Our identity is under siege today?” per journalism; three electives; and a cap- because of disparities in wealth between the Diamond answered that question with stone course. They also must complete a first world and the third world.” a number: 32. The first world consumes 32 media-related internship. Diamond, who first pursued a career as a times more than the developing world, Susan Tifft, the Eugene C. Patterson physiologist and later became a noted evolu- an equation that “won’t work anymore,” Professor of the Practice of Journalism and tionary biologist, is the Pulitzer-Prize winning Diamond said. PPS, teaches the core course, “News as author of Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Earlier in the day, 40 students attended a Moral Battleground.” The seminar exam- Human Societies and Collapse, companion luncheon with Diamond and questioned him ines case studies that range from the moral books that examine the evolution of human on topics ranging from environmental pro- dimension of how journalists cover the pri- societies over the last 13,000 years. Drawing tection in Indonesia to why environmental vate lives of politicians to ethical implica- on those works and his years of conservation issues take a back seat in the voting booth. tions of breaking the law in pursuit of a work in New Guinea and elsewhere, Diamond Diamond also shared personal insights— story. The popularity of the certificate has discussed factors that influence a culture’s he plays piano and sings, speaks and reads 12 required Tifft to add a second section and successful or unsuccessful responses to crises. languages, is married to a clinical psycholo- offer the course in both fall and spring. He applied the Freudian concept of indi- gist, and has twin sons Max and Josh, a fresh- “What’s impressed me is the breadth of vidual ego strength to whole cultures, com- man at Duke. backgrounds represented in my classes,” paring the adaptive abilities of the Navaho, The Crown Lecture in Ethics, named for says Tifft (Duke ’73). “I’ve had economics, the Japanese, post-World War II Europeans benefactor Lester Crown, was established to philosophy and engineering, and compara- and tribes in New Guinea. What allows some bring speakers to Duke to discuss ethical tive studies majors, as well as the usual to “build fences around what isn’t working” concerns in the arts, sciences, medicine, PPS and history types. Some are interested and selectively reappraise long-held beliefs business and other fields. Crown is chairman in pursuing a journalism career; some while others remain unbending? of the board of Material Service Corp., and think the certificate will give them a boost Quoting Vice President Dick Cheney’s president of Henry Crown and Co. when they apply for public relations jobs. post-911 statement that the “American way Previous Crown Lecturers include New But many are simply curious about the of life is non-negotiable,” Diamond asked, York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, press and how it works. We live in a media- “Negotiable with whom?” author Paul Starr, Nobel Peace Prize-winner saturated age, after all.” Jody Williams, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley.

2 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus UPDATES

Students host series on reconciliation HALVERSON GRANT by Lanier McRee

ruth and a common understanding of of race relations in Durham. The film by the past are prerequisites for reconcili- Chapel Hill filmmaker Diane Bloom tells T ation, according to Professor of the the remarkable story of the reconciliation Practice of PPS James Joseph, and reconcili- between a black community activist in ation is but one step towards social change. Durham, Ann Atwater, and a former KKK Joseph, former American ambassador to member, C.P. Ellis. South Africa, spoke Jan. 19 at the first of Atwater answered questions from the audi- three events this semester dedicated to the ence following the screening, and said that, in topic of reconciliation on the individual, her view, “We have gone back ...” She said the societal and political levels. only way to improve relations in Durham is to Ann Atwater talks with C.P. Ellis during a 2002 The Symposium on Reconciliation and love your neighbor as yourself “because you are screening of the movie about their friendship. Social Change included an address by not going to mistreat yourself.” Methodist bishop Peter Storey, the screen- The symposium concluded Feb. 7 with a be the most promising path to justice. ing of a documentary about reconciliation keynote address by the Rev. Peter Storey. LPF also hosted four brown-bag lunch between a former Ku Klux Klan member and Storey, a Methodist bishop from South discussions on the theme of reconciliation. a black community activist, and brown-bag Africa who is teaching at Duke’s Divinity Speakers included Robert Korstad, associ- student/faculty lunches. Students and mem- School, discussed South Africa’s Truth and ate professor of PPS and history, who dis- bers of the Durham community attended the Reconciliation Commission and implications cussed labor and reconciliation; Polly Weiss, series at the Institute. of this commission for truth and reconcilia- director of diversity and equity programs The Living Policy Forum (LPF), a stu- tion processes in the United States. within Duke’s Office of Institutional Diver- dent-led organization devoted to social The driving principles behind the South sity, who discussed racial privilege; Chris change through innovative public policy, African Truth and Reconciliation Com- Rice, co-director of Duke Divinity School’s organized the series. mission were: “Without truth, there can be Center for Reconciliation, who shared his “We wanted to create a safe space for sym- no healing; without forgiveness, there can be personal journey and work on reconciliation posium participants to think more deeply no future.” When asked how race relations around the world; and Mike Nice, associate about the strengths and weaknesses of recon- in South Africa compared to relations in the producer of the documentary “Welcome to ciliation, to grapple with the present in reflect- United States, Reverend Storey stated “We Durham,” who discussed race relations and ing on the past, and to ask whether stories [South Africans] have race relations… In gangs in Durham. without justice, or forgiveness without restitu- the United States, race relations are under During orientation for new MPP students tion, effectively lead to social change,” said the table.” However, he applauded the this fall, LPF will host its annual “Living MPP student Sarah Scheening. efforts of the recent Greensboro Truth and Policy in Durham” activities. The group A screening of “An Unlikely Friendship” Reconciliation Commission, maintaining plans to focus its next series of events on Jan. 30 led to discussion about the status that a grassroots model of reconciliation may urban decline and development.

Images by Charles Moore, a photographer for Life magazine in the 1960s, captured the vio- lence and struggles of the civil rights movement and, according to former U.S. Sen. Jacob Javits,

CHARLES MOORE “helped to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” Moore spoke at the Institute Feb. 6 after the screening of a short documentary by PPS senior Dan Love, titled “Charles Moore: I Fight With My Camera.” The event included a panel discussion on the effect photojournalism can have on policy. Love said of Moore: “Despite continual threats on his life, Moore stuck with his convic- tions, and his compassion made inaction an impossibility. He is a living example that you don’t have to be in a position of great power or even knowledge to make a difference.” Love’s film intersperses Moore’s gripping photographs with commentary and additional background information provided by Moore. Love’s docu- mentary was named Best Short Documentary at the 2005 Sidewalk Film Festival.

Winter 2006 3 UPDATES UEPHOTOGRAPHY DUKE iPods add tech twist to PPS classes, give students easy access to content by Kirran Syed

echnology and the ability to access dent in the Program in International Develop- real-time developments have changed ment Policy (PIDP), received an iPod for an Tthe way policy leaders communicate, English class she took during the fall semester. coordinate and react. At the Institute, stu- “They are very useful for the international dents are also incorporating emerging tech- students because you can record and listen to iPods also are being used as a professional nologies into the way they learn about and the lecture again and again,” she said. resource. Elise Goldwasser, the undergradu- respond to public policy. “Professors sometimes go very fast in the class ate internship coordinator at Sanford, said PPS students and professors have begun so it is common to miss some important points iPods will allow students in her internship using iPods, Apple’s popular brand of digital and that’s the importance of iPods. You can class, PPS 103, to tape and improve how recording and playback device, as part of the review the lecture whenever you want.” they answer typical interview questions. Duke Digital Initiative, a university program Ken Rogerson, research director for the “They will be helpful in terms of hearing that encourages creative uses of technology Institute’s Dewitt Wallace Center for Media questions, taking their own answers, and in education. and Democracy, uses iPods in his newspaper hearing the ‘errs’ and ‘umms’, and practicing Professor Bruce Jentleson’s spring Politi- journalism course, PPS 120. Students are not saying the ‘errs’ and ‘umms’ until their cal Analysis course, PPS 114, uses iPods to expected to use iPods in 75 percent of class answers come out smoothly,” Goldwasser said. support the writing component of the class, assignments to record and transcribe inter- The 20-gigabyte iPods also have the and to enhance student understanding of views and to listen to downloadable podcasts capacity for students to create and add to a current policy issues. Elizabeth Fournier, a of news reports. portable cache of information on internship visiting assistant professor teaching with “As a supplement to the course content, contacts and deadlines, which means no Jentleson, said students can download and the iPods are great… . Being adept at tech- more dog-eared piles of business cards for listen to podcasts of key policy speeches and nology is not only valuable, it’s essential,” this year’s public policy student. news events using the iPods. Rogerson said. “Because each student had “This seems like a new adventure in tech- “Students will be better at making policy an iPod, I was able to focus more on the sub- nology,” Goldwasser said. “Everybody uses decisions when they know more about the stantive issues of the course and not worry the blackberry, the pda (personal digital policy environment. Good analysis involves about access to technology.” assistant), the iPod. (Students) might as well understanding context, not just the text- “Ninety-five percent of what is on their get used to it now.” book,” Fournier said. The course instructors iPods is music. The other 5 percent changes About 1,200 Duke students are expected will also save time by using iPods to record my life in the classroom. So the ratio doesn’t to use the iPods in about 42 courses this comments about student papers. bother me. I’m thrilled with the 5 percent,” spring, according to the university’s Center Fortuna Haxhikadrija, a first-year grad stu- Rogerson said. for Instructional Technology.

Jen Hasvold (Battambang,Cambodia): tive partner and a HIV negative partner) to Hart Fellows’ Assessing the needs of trafficked orphaned help her host organization,Reach Out, and abandoned children in order to help develop community education and out- research projects care providers in her host organization, reach programs. HOMELAND, and those in other NGOs bet- Lauren Jarvis (Stellenbosch,South Africa): The 2005-2006 Hart Fellows have all ter understand the correlation between Assessment of conditions for women farm received IRB approval for their community- children’s personal histories and their workers to help her host organization, based research projects and are collecting behavior and development. Hasvold’s fac- Women on Farms,improve outreach mate- field data through surveys and interviews. ulty mentor is Associate Professor of PPS rials. Jarvis’s faculty advisor is Visiting Their projects: Kate Whetten. Assistant Professor of History Karin Hayden Kantor (Jodhpur,India): Evaluat- Katie Wilson-Milne (Durban,South Africa): Shapiro. ing the success of Village Development Assessing the defining aspects,challenges Mark Younger (Cotzal,Guatemala): Committees (VDCs) in the villages where and motivations of black women legal pro- Investigation into ways to promote finan- his host organization,GRAVIS,works. VDCs fessionals in South Africa both during and cial independence among indigenous act as the liaison between GRAVIS and the after the apartheid era. Wilson-Milne’s fac- Mayan villages currently receiving mone- villages and are responsible for choosing ulty advisor is Catherine Admay, visiting tary aid from his host organization, AGROS. development initiatives,selecting benefici- lecturer. Younger’s faculty advisor is Greg Dees, aries and implementing the projects under- Michaela Kerrissey (Kampala,Uganda): adjunct professor at the Fuqua School of taken. Kantor’s faculty mentor is Assistant Case study on knowledge,attitudes and Business. Professor of PPS Anirudh Krishna. practices in discordant couples (a HIV posi-

4 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus PPS senior wins award for Sanford News Briefs MPP student publishes book • When a close friend is ‘College Connection’ diagnosed with cancer,most of us would learn everything we can about the disease,and do our best help our friend through at Southern High School the experience,wherever it might lead. Kevin Molloy, a first-year MPP student, took his concern a step farther. He interviewed dozens of cancer survivors and arcia Eisenstein, a PPS senior, was one of compiled their stories into a 160-page book that was pub- three recipients of the 2006 Samuel DuBois lished in December. MCook Society Undergraduate Student Award. Cancer—How Will I Get through This? Stories of Hope from She was nominated by Professor of the Practice of PPS Survivors and Caregivers focuses on the psychological and Tony Brown for her College Connection program at emotional dimensions of cancer, a topic that few books Southern High School in Durham. address from the perspective of cancer patients, Molloy said. College Connection began as a project for Brown’s “There are books written by psychologists but not many Enterprising Leadership course in the fall of 2004. The from the cancer patient’s point of view about how it feels to program assists high school students whose parents are not familiar with tell your family or get through chemo,” other than cyclist the college application process with applying to universities. Lance Armstrong’s well-known account, Molloy said. Each program participant is paired with a volunteer coach trained by Molloy spent eight months talking with survivors and the Duke admissions office. The student and coach navigate a six-week caregivers from all over the United States, from rural Kansas course covering school and financial aid applications, essay writing, to New York City, who had of all kinds of cancers—breast budgeting, time management and residential living on campus. Eight of and colon cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, melanoma, the 10 students who participated in the first session of College brain tumors—at all different stages and levels of severity. Connection are now enrolled in four-year colleges. He reached them by posting his request in Internet chat Eisenstein’s other activities include interning at Turn the Page in rooms that focus on cancer. Washington, D.C., member coordination of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, Women’s Club Tennis, and communication executive with the Freeman Student selected by AAPSS • David Gastwirth, a PPS Center for Jewish Life. senior and head of the PPS Majors Union,has been appoint- She also was awarded the Jacqueline Anne Morris Research ed a Junior Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Scholarship to complete her senior thesis, “The Access to Gifted Social Science. The department nominated him for the Education for North Carolina Minority Students in Context of ‘No Child award based on his coursework,enthusiasm and promise Left Behind.’ ” of making substantial contributions to the social sciences in the future.Gastwirth submitted his research paper titled, “Battling the Bottle: Motivations and Mechanisms for Reducing Alcohol Consumption in College Fraternities, Woodruff, Brooks (continued from page 1) ”written for an alcohol policy course taught by ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of PPS Philip J.Cook. she was the host of “Frontline” at PBS, where she also reported for The MacNeil/ Lehrer News Hour. Rubenstein resource room • Public policy students “She is one of the smartest, most perceptive people we’ve had in jour- now have access to Perkins Library’s librarian for public poli- nalism,” Mickiewicz said. Although Woodruff had “many offers” after cy, Catherine Shreve, without having to walk across campus. leaving CNN, she was drawn to her alma mater, Mickiewicz noted, hav- Shreve spends one afternoon a week in the new Resource ing shown a longstanding commitment to Duke through her service as a Room in Rubenstein Hall to assist students with their public trustee, and her involvement in the Baldwin Scholars program, women’s policy research questions. She can be contacted at 660-6934, studies and Duke’s financial aid initiative. or [email protected]. Brooks was a senior editor of the Weekly Standard, as well as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and is the author of Bobos In Paradise: The New HLP lending library • The Hart Leadership Program Upper Class and How They Got There and other nonfiction books. library now offers more than 850 book titles for loan to PPS “We want him here because he is extremely well read, extremely well faculty,students and staff. Topics range from the war in Iraq educated and has a very wide and deep understanding of history and cul- to the role of religion in contemporary U.S. politics. Recent ture,” Mickiewicz said. “The fact that he is a conservative helps enrich the acquisitions include Adam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains: ‘marketplace of ideas.’ Then again, many of his columns and appearances Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves; on the “News Hour” reflect other views. He is an independent thinker.” Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Brooks said his positive experience with giving a lecture at Duke Responsibility; and Jim Wallis’God’s Politics: Why the Right influenced his decision to teach here. “It has a reputation as a very lively Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. View the library’s place with good, lively students.” holdings online at www.pubpol.duke.edu/hlplibrary. Brooks said the core question in his course will be “what do (liberal and conservative) mean anymore, if anything. We’ll read books from New student research grants • Rising juniors and sen- both traditions and ask if they have anything to do with the way modern iors who are PPS majors are eligible to apply for a $2,500 liberals and conservatives actually behave.” summer research stipend. The research may be conducted Woodruff said she’s looking forward to working not only with stu- with a professor as a research assistant,with a nonprofit or dents interested in becoming journalists, but also those who want to government organization as a research intern,or as a stand- become better consumers of news and information. alone project conceived by the student. Four or five stipends “I’d like to get them to think in new ways about the role of journalism will be awarded,with funding provided by Dean of Arts & in our society and in our democracy,” she said. Sciences Robert Thompson and the Duke Endowment. Winter 2006 5 GlobalPolicy

Workshop explores interactions of poverty, democracy

eople in poverty support democratic instances, a positive relationship was shown. and empowered them,” Krishna said. institutions and want to participate in The meeting opened with a discussion of Other Duke faculty and graduate stu- P democratic processes as much as oth- how researchers conceptualize, measure and dents who took part in the workshop were: ers, if not more, according to series of compare poverty across nations and cul- Lorena Becerra, Herbert Kitschelt, Kevin research reports presented Feb. 17-18 at a tures. Sanjay Reddy (Columbia), David Morrison, David Soskice, and Guillermo workshop on poverty and democracy. Brady (Duke sociology), Philip Oldenburg Trejo (all political science), Phyllis Pomerantz Studies conducted in countries across (University of Texas) and Krishna led the (PPS, DCID) and Dennis Rondinelli (PPS, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and roundtable session. DCID). Southeast Asia all concluded, “counter to Five panel sessions took place during the Visiting participants included: Carles what a lot of people had previously thought,” two-day event, with presentations on the Boix (University of Chicago); John Booth that democracy is a value shared by poor relationships of poor people to democratic (North Texas), Michael Bratton (Michigan people, said Assistant Professor of PPS and governments; the prospects for democracy State), Louise Cord (World Bank), Peter Political Science Anirudh Krishna. when poverty and inequality are prevalent; Houtzager (IDS Sussex), Torben Iversen Faculty and experts from the Institute, the question of whether democracy helps (Harvard), Amaney A. Jamal (Princeton), the World Bank, Duke and other universities reduce poverty; poverty, conflict and protest; Mitchell Seligson (Vanderbilt), Jenny gathered at the Institute to present research at and how decentralization affects poverty Pribble, Evelyne Huber and John Stephens the workshop organized by Krishna and Duke reduction. (UNC Chapel Hill), Adam Przeworski Political Science Professor Karen Renner. Several researchers documented the (New York University), Graeme Robertson “This is new knowledge that’s policy rele- results of real-world experiments in building (UNC Chapel Hill), Nazif Tolga Sinmazdemir vant,” Krishna said, and addresses the ques- democracy from the bottom up, Krishna (NYU) and Ashutosh Varshney (Michigan). tion of whether democracy can be stabilizing said. Patrick Heller of Brown University and The Duke Center for International Devel- in poor countries—“whether they value it Michael Woolcock of Harvard and the opment, and the Duke Markets and Demo- enough to make it work.” World Bank looked at projects in India and cratic Institutions Initiative provided fund- Less conclusive were the results from stud- Indonesia in which local-level democratic ing for the workshop. Kelly Scurry and ies examining whether democracy actually institutions were created with the specific Jessica Anduiza of DCID provided logistical helps reduce poverty. Using infant mortality goal of helping poor people. planning and support. as a measure, a paper by Michael Ross of They found that the grassroots efforts UCLA showed no reduction in infant mor- “have really helped poor people get things tality within democratic countries. In other they want from the state and the community,

tax administration from in developing and transitional countries. DCID launches an international com- The program also will expand the public parative perspective. finance curriculum available to other pub- international “None of the existing lic policy students at Duke. programs offer the full The ITP courses will draw upon experts taxation program package of the skills you in public finance and tax policy at Sanford need to design tax poli- and Duke Law School, as well as leading By Kirran Syed cy and administer tax outside tax practitioners and academics in law in a developing tax policy and program design, including This summer DCID will begin offering the country context,” said ITP co-director former faculty of the Harvard ITP. Duke International Taxation Program (ITP) Graham Glenday, professor of the practice ITP is co-directed by to draw leading tax professionals in devel- of PPS. Duke Law Professor oping and transitional countries who wish “We have the faculty here at Duke, Richard L.Schmalbeck to deepen their professional qualifications probably the strongest faculty in the coun- and overseen by DCID in tax policy, legislation and administration try, in terms of combining the theory of tax Director Robert within an interdisciplinary analytical setting. policy with practical experience in tax Conrad. ITP is a new specialization within the reforms internationally,” Glenday said. Other programs on Master’s Program on International The program is expected to start with international tax are Development Policy (PIDP). Its core cur- about 15 students and grow from there. It running through the Schmalbeck riculum will provide graduate-level educa- is targeted at mid-career professionals who law schools at Harvard tion in public finance,tax policy, tax legis- are moving up the ranks to top positions in University, New York University, University lation, revenue forecasting,and modern the ministries of finance and tax agencies of Michigan, and Georgetown University.

6 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus GLOBAL POLICY Global Policy Briefs UMTE PHOTO SUBMITTED Yegor Gaidar, former Russian prime minis- ter,visited Duke and the Institute on Feb.6 and spoke on “Policy in Petroleum- Dependent Economies.” Gaidar is now director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition,a think-tank. He was a founder and the chairman of Democratic Choice of Russia,a pro-market liberal party,and as such won elections to the first Russian Duma (Parliament) in 1993. From 1992 to1994 he also was coun- selor on economic policy to the Russian Spring 2006 participants in the Duke Center for International Development’s Executive Develop- president but resigned ment Program in Public Policy and Management gather in front of Duke Chapel. The group of 30 in protest to the war students arrived Jan. 9 for the 18-week program, designed for the State Administration of Foreign in Chechnya.He re- Experts Affairs (SAFEA) group in People’s Republic of China. joined Parliament in The SAFEA participants, all mid- to senior level officials from various ministries within China’s 1999 and served central government, are taking courses in topics such as public finance, policy analysis, management, through 2004. and environmental policy. They attend classes mostly at DCID’s training facility at South Square II, Gaidar’s lunchtime and have regular opportunities to visit campus and the Sanford Institute. lecture at the Law School was followed by a reception at the Institute.Gaidar’s Duke, Berkeley partners (continued from page 1) visit was co-sponsored by Duke Center for International Development, the Institute cles for influential periodicals and policy and Weber wrote in their project proposal. and Duke Law School. papers will be produced. “It addresses the most evident and ominous Health Strategies International LLC, a “We’re asking what kind of world the threats, and it taps America’s deeply held company owned by Anne Martin-Staple, United States wants to inhabit in 2015, and sense of self and world role. a research scholar at the Center for Health what policies it should pursue now to pro- “But if we were somehow tomorrow to ‘win’ Policy,has received a one-year contract mote that outcome,” said Bruce Jentleson, the war against radical Islam—whatever that from the Bill and Melinda Gates Founda- professor of PPS and political science. actually means—we still would find ourselves tion and PATH, a nonprofit organization, “There’s a real hole in the public debate confronting other major ideological contests to develop a human resource financing about these issues and the academic study relating to societal justice, globalization and model for the health sector in Zambia. of them has been something of an ‘intellec- the challenges of global governance.” Martin-Staple previously developed the tual backwater’ for the past 15 years,” said A second research project will examine Human Resource Six-Year Emergency UC Berkeley Professor of Political Science policies that can promote the peaceful and Program for the Malawi Ministry of Health. Steven Weber. constructive incorporation of large, popu- The human resource model Martin- Jentleson and Weber are co-directors of lous and increasingly powerful states, such as Staple develops will become a compo- the new program, which is funded princi- China, into the global political and econom- nent of the global Gates Foundation pally by grants totaling $450,000 over two ic systems within the world order. malaria scale-up monitoring and evalua- years from Carnegie Corporation of New A third task of the center will be to con- tion system. The aim will be to replicate York and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. sider the intersection between international the model in other developing countries. Jentleson, who directed Duke’s Sanford politics, life sciences and biotechnology, es- In May 2005,the Gates Foundation Institute from 2000 through June 2005, pecially for the regulation and management announced an award of $35 million to the previously served as senior policy advisor to of advances in genetic medicine and infec- Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign tious diseases with pandemic potential. to help control malaria in Zambia, where in 2000. This project is being developed in part- the disease kills one child out of five. The program will bring together faculty nership with research centers on both cam- members and graduate students, often puses. DCID offers summer exec.ed.programs: through coast-to-coast video conferencing. The program will host a conference Project Appraisal and Risk Management, Representatives from related fields in the March 5-7 at UC Berkeley’s Moses Hall, May 14–June 9, Graham Glenday and private sector and non-profit organizations gathering 19 political science PhD students Fernando Fernholz, program directors; also will serve on an advisory board. from top universities across the country. They Tax Analysis and Revenue Forecasting, June The first major task, “The War of Ideas: will examine U.S. policy relating to interna- 18–July 14, G.P.Shukla, program director; Right Focus, Wrong Strategy,” will question tional security, nation-state systems, transna- Program on Fiscal Decentralization and the “war” metaphor and challenge conven- tionalism, political and human rights and Local Government Financial Management, tional wisdom that the current conflict other issues. The goal is to create new ideas June 25–July 14, Roy Kelly, program direc- between the U.S. and the Middle East is pri- and research projects relating to strategic, tor; Budgeting and Financial Management marily about freedom versus fundamental- medium-range U.S. foreign policy and to in the Public Sector; July 16–Aug.4; ism, and about public diplomacy. launch a network of policy-oriented graduate Glenday and Shukla, program directors. “The broad domestic consensus around students interested in bridging the worlds of this strategy is understandable,” Jentleson politics and academics. Winter 2006 7 Issues PHOTO COURTESY OF RICHARD GEE Similarly, this summer, following bomb- Screeners should focus on ings in London, Homeland Security Secre- tary Michael Chertoff was chastised by mem- bers of Congress when he suggested that the finding bombs, not scissors government should give greater priority to preventing catastrophic attacks that might By DAVID SCHANZER kill thousands of people instead of worrying about a subway bombing that might kill dozens. The uproar In no other area but homeland security But he was right. It makes no sense to over the govern- do we make the assumption, or, worse yet, pour a disproportionate amount of resources ment’s announce- the demand, that the government secure into defending against low-consequence ment that it would us against all possible forms of risk. If we threats when we have virtually no way of no longer search wanted to reduce auto fatalities to close to detecting a nuclear weapon being smuggled for and confiscate zero, we could do so by driving tanks. But we into the United States in a cargo container passengers’ 4-inch don’t. Likewise, we do not set air quality or and minimal defenses against a range of nat- scissors and screw- food safety standards so high as to preclude urally occurring or terrorist-introduced bio- drivers demon- all possibilities of sickness or disease. To logic pathogens. strates how our do so would be impracticable and far too society is still struggling to define the con- expensive. “By getting into our cars cept of “security” in the post-9/11 world. By getting into our cars every day, eating every day, eating processed The logic of the proposal is straightfor- processed foods and playing sports, for exam- ward. Now that cockpit doors have been ple, we all accept a level of risk that some- foods and playing sports, for sealed, air marshals fly on many flights, pilots thing bad can happen. We need to start example, we all accept a are armed and passengers are likely to revolt incorporating this concept into our thinking level of risk that something against an in-flight hijacking, the risk of ter- about security policy. rorists taking over a plane with small The delusion that we can protect against bad can happen. We need to weapons and crashing it into a building has every type of terrorist threat can actually start incorporating this con- been substantially reduced. Relieving airport make us more vulnerable. Policymakers cept into our thinking about screeners of the responsibility to search for attempting to respond to public anxiety and these small potential weapons, which bolster their credentials as being “tough” on security policy.” account for 25 percent of the 12.6 million terrorism will direct resources toward the items confiscated, will allow them to focus most high-profile threats, such as aviation Four years after 9/11, it is time for our on more dangerous threats such as hidden security, even when a rational risk analysis public figures to help educate the public that explosives. would call for a far different allocation of our homeland security efforts are not being From the flurry of criticism that ensued, scarce resources. designed to eliminate risk, but rather to min- one would have thought the government imize and manage risk. Once the public had decided to allow serial killers to sign on “From the flurry of starts accepting the risk of a terrorist attack as baggage screeners. Four members of the criticism that ensued, one as one of the many background risks that we U.S. House and Sen. Hillary Rodham face in our everyday lives, the government Clinton introduced the “Leave All Blades would have thought the will be able to shape public policies that Behind Act” to reverse the new policy. government had decided to maximize our protection. Another legislator fumed that the “TSA” of allow serial killers to sign on Until then, we may be stuck with policies Transportation Security Administration that require airline screeners to spend their should not stand for “Take your Scissors as baggage screeners.” time searching for children’s scissors deep in Aboard.” The leader of the flight attendants a carry-on bag while the man with the belt union fretted that the scissors would be per- For example, the homeland security of plastic explosives slips right on by— mitted into “our workplace without any jus- appropriations bill signed by President Bush unnoticed. tification.” in October allocates 97 percent of the avail- Schanzer is director of the Triangle Center on This reaction results from the misconcep- able transportation security funding to avia- Terrorism and Homeland Security and a visit- tion that we can secure ourselves against all tion, even though the recent major al-Qaeda ing associate professor of PPS.This column possible risk from terrorism. Memo to attacks in Europe have been against trains was first published Dec.20,2005 in the Raleigh America: We can’t, and the sooner we and buses and, historically, mass transporta- News and Observer. understand that, the safer we will be. tion has been a more frequent target than aviation.

8 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus HEALTH INEQUALITIES PROGRAM ELIANA PAUCA Poorly planned development renders rail plans irrelevant By JACOB L.VIGDOR

The Triangle perhaps that’s walking distance for some Transit Authority’s loyal fans, but who wants to trudge back to plans for a rail sys- the train station on a chilly winter night TTA tem linking after a double-overtime game at the center, Durham and when they could just hop in their car and Proposed TTA rail vehicle Raleigh may not drive away? quite be dead, but What if the center had been built along 1990 and 2000—that’s more than in the they are certainly Hillsborough Road between Blue Ridge entire state of Connecticut. Tens of thou- on life support. Road and the Beltline? This largely undevel- sands more have arrived since 2000. The Conventional wis- oped site directly on the corridor would have overwhelming majority of these housing dom says that new, more stringent cost- enabled spectators to reach the train station units—at least 80 percent, by my eyeballing effectiveness criteria put in place by the more quickly than the parking lots. Drivers of Census figures— are beyond walking dis- Federal Transit Administration have nearly would still have had nearly immediate access tance from the rail corridor. killed the project. to the surrounding freeways. Most potential rail commuters in the While the federal government’s current • The sprawling malls. Two enormous Triangle’s mushrooming exurbs would face a fiscal realities certainly aren’t helping the shopping destinations, the Streets at three-mode commute: drive to a station, TTA, the truth is that poor planning deci- Southpoint and Triangle Town Center, broke take the train and then grab a shuttle to sions by state and local authorities have put ground well after the plans for TTA had their workplace. Why couldn’t more of the the rail system on a path towards certain been established. What if Southpoint, ubiquitous apartment complexes and “new doom. While the TTA spent millions of dol- instead of being five miles from the corridor urbanist” developments sprouting up all over lars dreaming up plans for a dense rail corri- at the then-lonely intersection of I-40 and the Triangle been steered towards the rail dor, these other authorities went about their Fayetteville Road, had been built at the now- corridor? business, approving projects that effectively lonely intersection of the Durham Freeway Had these decisions been made different- guarantee the irrelevance of rail for most and Ellis Road? Or at I-40 and Miami ly, thousands of people could have found local trips Triangle residents will want to Boulevard? Both locations offer immediate home, work, entertainment and shopping take in the 21st century. freeway access, and both are directly adja- along the rail corridor. Instead, we must all Since plans for rail transit were first cent to the rail corridor. Triangle Town stick with our cars. If the trains come, they hatched in the 1980s, these decisions Center is just over a mile from the proposed will be almost completely irrelevant. became nails in the system’s coffin. Let’s northern terminus of TTA rail at Spring There is an old cliché that fits this situa- imagine for just a moment if the following Forest Road. Had that mall been built on the tion perfectly: “If you fail to plan, you plan to things had developed differently in the other side of Capital Boulevard, a minor fail.” The Triangle’s failures consist of con- Triangle area: extension of the rail line would have brought sidering decisions in isolation, caving in to • RTP. Now, it’s true that planning for the trains right to its doorstep. developers who flash even a bit of their own RTP began in the 1950s, well before anyone • The isolated towers. The Triangle is money and fragmentation of authority. dreamed of commuter rail in this area. But speckled with large office buildings in odd These failures of planning have doomed over the past 20 years, developed square locations. Both Durham’s University Tower the TTA rail plan to failure, whether it is footage and employment in the park have and Raleigh’s proposed Glentree project are built or not. And, in turn, they have doomed doubled, with most of the growth occurring more than three miles from the rail corridor. the Triangle’s residents to the continued far away from the proposed TTA rail corri- The wisdom of building these high-rise proj- growth of transit-free gridlock on the dor. What if this new growth had been ects in a place where land is quite cheap can region’s highways. focused on this corridor, as some of the earli- easily be questioned. If such a tower is to be Vigdor is an assistant professor of PPS and er RTP facilities (notably IBM’s) were? built, though, why not place it on a site next economics at the Institute. This column was • The RBC Center. Groundbreaking for to the rail corridor? first published Feb.21 in the Raleigh News and the new arena occurred in 1997, well after • Houses, houses everywhere. There Observer. regional rail planning was under way. The were more than 120,000 new housing units center is a mile away from the rail corridor— built in Durham and Wake counties between

Winter 2006 9 Social & Health Policy

Report advocates alternatives to grouping deviant youth

new policy report strives to focus pol- body of research about the high cost and icymakers’ attention on a problem often negative effects of the practice, the A well known to parents, teachers, psy- authors note. chologists and others who work with delin- For example, of the $5 billion spent quent youth. Our society’s typical response annually on juvenile courts, about 93 per- to youthful deviant behavior—separating cent is spent on programs that aggregate de- deviant adolescents from their families, viant youth, such as training schools, deten- schools and communities and grouping them tion centers and other residential treatment with others who have similar problems— centers. Even the well-intentioned Midnight often exacerbates their problems, as troubled Basketball program, created to provide a Kenneth Dodge Jennifer Lansford youths associate with peers who influence healthy alternative and keep at-risk youth them to become even more deviant. off the streets, has sometimes grouped at-risk scientific research on program outcomes. The report, “Deviant Peer Influences in youth in environments with little structure The authors note they are not suggesting Intervention and Public Policy for Youth” or adult supervision. dismantling the current system. In schools, for recommends terminating programs that group This grouping occurs not only because example, non-disruptive students likely bene- deviant youth whenever possible, working to authorities want to prevent unruly youth fit from the removal of their disruptive peers, minimize “peer contagion” effects when from disrupting or endangering classrooms and their needs also must be considered. grouping is necessary, and supporting other, and communities, but also because they Instead, they say, “Rather than a medical more effective alternatives. believe specialized settings can help deviant model of youth illness and after-the-fact The report by Kenneth A. Dodge, direc- youths and deliver needed services in a finan- treatment of youth deviance or a moral tor of the Center for Child and Family Policy cially efficient manner. Instead, the groups fre- model that justifies retribution toward (CCFP), Thomas J. Dishion, director of the quently serve as training grounds for more deviant youth, a new model that emphasizes Child and Family Center at the University of antisocial behavior. the cultural and developmental context of Oregon, and Jennifer E. Lansford, CCFP The authors recommend supporting alter- deviant behavior may be more appropriate.” research scientist, was published in the January native approaches that have been carefully The report drew on the work of the Cen- issue of Social Policy Reports. The publisher, evaluated and shown to be effective, such as ter for Child and Family Policy’s Executive the Society for Research in Child Develop- Functional Family Therapy, Job Corps, and Sessions Panel in Deviant Peer Contagion, ment, distributed the report to more than mentoring programs open to all youths which met six times over three years to con- 30,000 legislators, policymakers and commu- regardless of their risk status, such as Boys duct a comprehensive analysis of the prob- nity leaders nationwide. and Girls Clubs and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. lem. The panel’s members included scholars The report reviews numerous studies on In addition, they recommend that when from diverse backgrounds including crimi- group interventions for deviant adolescents, decisions about funding youth programs are nology, education, psychology and sociology, as well as research into effective alternatives. being made, policymakers should consider the as well as policymakers, practitioners and Grouping deviant youth remains the most available scientific evidence about the effects business people. The complete report is avail- common public policy response in schools, of grouping deviant peers. They also offer a able online at www.childandfamilypolicy. courts and communities, despite a growing detailed set of recommendations for improving duke.edu.

grouping deviant youths:what factors youths should take into account the num- Research suggests should be considered when weighing the ber of deviant youths relative to the size of costs and benefits of “mainstreaming” the relevant population,or to the number guidelines for deviant youth? of assignment location. The nature of the The authors note that there is a need for problematic behavior also needs to be con- grouping more research on the question. While sidered. Also relevant is the capacity for “mainstreaming”—or grouping special behavior control in the grouped setting. For Research by ITT/Terry needs students with regular students—is example,a deviant student might cause less Sanford Distinguished the norm in education,the author’s note harm to himself and others in a classroom Professor of PPS there is “still no consensus on which popu- taught by a teacher who uses proven meth- Philip J.Cook and lation should take priority,the deviants or ods for rewarding good behavior. Georgetown Univer- the bystanders who might be affected by The paper, “Assigning Deviant Youths sity professor Jens their behavior.” to Minimize Total Harm,”was published Ludwig looks at They conclude that decisions about online by the National Bureau of Economic Philip J. Cook another aspect of whether to separate or congregate deviant Research. www.nber.org/papers/W11390

10 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus SOCIAL & HEALTH POLICY Children dance around their teacher in a photo from Together We Do Good Work: SEWA’s Child Health Policy Briefs Care Program in Gujarat, India by former Hart Fellow Sara Gomez. Childhood poverty,obesity risk • The book documents the Duke Growing up poor significantly increases a graduate’s work with the Self black woman’s risk of being obese, even if she Employed Women’s Association, a overcomes poverty in adulthood. A study by grassroots organization devoted to Sherman A.James, Susan B.King Professor improving the lives of poor women of PPS, of 679 women in Pitt County,N.C., and their families. The book was SARA GOMEZ found that black women who had a low co-published by The Hart Leader- socioeconomic status in childhood were ship Program and the Center for twice as likely to be obese in adulthood as Documentary Studies’ Lewis Hine those who grew up in less disadvantaged Documentary Initiative, as the first households. Women who were still poor as in a series of publications connecting the work of Hart Fellows to a particular policy issue. adults faced the greatest obesity risk; howev- Professor of the Practice of PPS Alex Harris wrote the introduction and served as co-editor. er,even those who had lived in poverty as chil- dren, but who became middle class as adults, were significantly more likely to be obese Faculty lead global health course cluster than those who had never been poor. James,Sherman A., A.Fowler-Brown,T.E.Raghuna- everal PPS-affiliated faculty members in Time and Space.” Instructors include than,and J.Van Hoewyk. “Life-course Socio- are involved in a new Focus course Research Professor of PPS Robert Cook- economic Position and Obesity in African American S cluster on global health this semester, Deegan, Director of the Duke Center for Women: The Pitt County Study.”American Journal the first on this topic, and one of the first Health Policy Kathryn Whetten, Health of Public Health 96 (3):554-560 (March 2006). tangible steps in the university’s campuswide Policy Research Scholar Anne Martin- • Global Health Initiative. Thirty-two under- Staple, and Rachel Whetten and Laura The myth of the drinker’s bonus graduates are participating in the program, Sample, researchers with the Center for Although common sense would suggest designed to be an intensive, interdisciplinary Health Policy’s Health Inequalities Program. that drinkers would be less productive than learning opportunity. Courses in the program are designed to non-drinkers, research has shown drinkers The students take one course together, help students identify factors that influence earn more, even after controlling for human and each student also takes two seminars global health by examining the biological capital and local labor market conditions. In that cover economics, social and political and social underpinnings of global disease a December 2005 National Bureau of Econ- factors affecting burden of illness, biology spread and reduction; the social and com- omic Research working paper, ITT/Sanford of infectious disease and human rights. munity forces that affect individual health Professor of PPS Philip J.Cook and Bethany They’ll take a field trip to Costa Rica, a outcomes; the international organizations Peters of Rhodes College examine why that country with much lower income and gross that affect health policies and economics; is true using data from the National domestic product per capita, but better and the ethical responsibilities of commu- Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979). They overall health outcomes than the United nities and health care practitioners in safe- conclude that “most likely the positive asso- States. Many students will be engaged in guarding human health. ciation between drinking and earnings is research-service learning during the semes- Several major global infectious diseases the result of the fact that ethanol is a normal ter, or later in their time at Duke. of both historical and modern importance, commodity, the consumption of which Sherryl Broverman, assistant professor such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, will increases with income,rather than an elixer of the practice of biology, leads this semes- be used as case studies. that enhances productivity.” Available ter’s program, titled “Global Health: Disease online at ssrn.com/abstract=872738

Health policy scholars care for low-income Latinos. that every North Carolinian has access to ade- (continued from page 1) The scholars program is named for the late quate health care,” said Chris Conover, direc- Jim Bernstein, a national leader in rural access tor of Duke’s health policy certificate program. North Carolina communities, enhancing to health care who served for 30 years as the This year’s scholars will help to imple- Internet-based resources for local policymak- first head of the Office of Rural Health. Later ment recommendations of the NCIOM’s ers and conducting research on a variety of he was an assistant secretary of the N.C. Safety Net Advisory Council. They also will issues related to health care access. Department of Health and Human Services. assist policymakers and communities by Brihmadesam is a joint public policy/ bio- “There is an urgent need now to help state working to upgrade existing Web resources medical engineering major. Last summer he and local leaders get the most out of existing now provided through the Center for Health conducted fieldwork on poverty issues in resources to serve people in need of care,” said Policy and NCIOM. North Carolina under the direction of Assis- Kathy Higgins, BCBSNC Foundation presi- The other scholars are: Duke junior tant Professor of PPS Anirudh Krishna. He dent. “That’s what Jim Bernstein’s life was all Theresa Poulos, who is pursuing the health will do a summer internship with the N.C. about...” policy certificate, and UNC graduate student Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) and plans to “We are excited about the opportunity to April Clark, a master’s degree candidate at write a senior honors thesis related to access to continue to meet Jim Bernstein’s goal of seeing UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health.

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John Ahearne, visiting professor of PPS, has been John Dancy, visiting lecturer in PPS, judged appointed chair of the new National Academy of entries for the international RIAS television and Faculty Publications Sciences Committee on International Efforts to radio awards in Berlin. The $10,000 RIAS award Combat Radiological Terrorism. He also was is given to television and broadcast productions Cook, Philip J. and B.L. Peters. “The Myth of appointed co-chair of the National Academy’s that help explain the United States to Germans, the Drinker’s Bonus.” (December 2005). NBER Rare Isotope Science Assessment Committee. He and Germany to Americans. Dancy is a perma- Working Paper No. W11902 spoke at the 60th anniversary celebration of the nent member of the six-person RIAS jury. http://ssrn.com/abstract=872738 Federation of American Scientists on Nov. 30 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Professor of PPS and Law Joel Fleishman pre- Cook, Philip J., J. Ludwig, S. A. Venkatesh sented a paper titled “Assessing the Value of the and A.A. Braga. “Underground Gun Markets.” Bernard Avishai, visiting professor of PPS and Foundation Community’s Infrastructure” at a (November 2005). NBER Working Paper No. business, appeared on the Open Source public Rockefeller Archives conference on Jan. 10. W11737 http://ssrn.com/abstract=842472 radio show Jan. 5 for a discussion of Israeli politics in the days after Ariel Sharon’s stroke. Professor of the Practice of PPS Alex Harris has Wintemute, G., Philip J. Cook and M. Wright. had his book, The Idea of Cuba, accepted for co- “Risk Factors among Handgun Retailers for The teaching of Alma Blount, Hart Leadership publication in 2007 by Duke Center for Docu- Frequent and Disproportionate Sales of Guns Program director, is mentioned in Leadership Can mentary Studies and University of New Mexico Used in Violent and Firearm-Related Crimes.” Be Taught (Harvard Business School Press, Press. The book includes 75 of his photographs. Injury Prevention 11: 357-363 (December 2005). October 2005), in which author Sharon Daloz Professor of PPS and Political Science Bruce Parks examines the innovative teaching style and Cook-Deegan, Robert. Jentleson gave a talk titled “Who Won Libya? theories of Harvard professor Ronald Heifetz. (With six others). “The The Force-Diplomacy Debate and its Implica- Parks writes about a handful of Heifetz protogees, licensing of DNA tions for Theory and Policy” on Jan. 26 at UC- including Blount, who have adapted and expand- patents by U.S. academ- Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies. ed Heifetz’s leadership education model. ic institutions: an Jentleson also gave a presentation titled “The empirical survey.” Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor Global Context: Sept. 11...Sept. 10, Sept. 12” to a Nature Biotechnology 24: of PPS and professor of economics and law, senior management retreat for APCO Worldwide 31-39 (2006). is on sabbatical at the Russell Sage Foundation in Annapolis, Md., on Dec. 16. He also participat- http://www.nature.com/ in New York City and gave a talk titled “The ed in a Roundtable on Conflict Prevention organ- nbt/journal/v24/n1/full/nbt0106-31.html Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8” on Feb. 1. ized by the U.S. Institute of Peace and U.S. Depart- The talk was based on work he did with ment of State on Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C. PPS professors Sunny Ladd and Jake Vigdor. Fontaine, Reid. G. “Applying systems principles Clotfelter also is scheduled to give seminars on Anne Martin-Staple has been appointed to models of social information processing and related research at the New School, Columbia, research scholar and is affiliated with the Duke aggressive behavior in youth.” Aggression and Amherst and CUNY this spring. Center for Health Policy. Violent Behavior 11: 64-76 (2006). James, Sherman A., A. Fowler-Brown, T.E. Raghunathan and J. Van Hoewyk. “Life-course Socioeconomic Position and Obesity in African American Women: The Pitt County Study.”

ROB DIPATRI American Journal of Public Health 96 (3): 554- 560 (March 2006). Moneta, Larry, and C. Nisbet. “Technology and student affairs: redux.” In New Directions for Student Services 112: 3-14 (Winter 2005). Wiener, Jonathan B. Book review of Catastrophe by R. Posner and Collapse by J. Diamond. Journal of Policy Analysis & Management 24: 885-890 (2005). Wiener, Jonathan B. “Foreword: Global Governance as Administration—National and Transnational Approaches to Global Administrative Law.” Law & Contemporary Problems 68 (Summer/Autumn 2005). (Co- author of foreword, and co-editor of symposium issue with R. Stewart, B. Kingsbury and N. Krisch.) Wiener, Jonathan B., M. Marvelli and K. Stansell. “ ‘Adverse Effects’ And Similar Terms In U.S. Law.” Report for the Dose Response Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis The Susan Bennett King Instructional Technology and Multimedia Center in Rubenstein Hall (July 2005). Available at www.sra.org/drsg. debuted Jan. 20. Professor of PPS and Political Science Bruce Jentleson, on screen, participated in a panel with faculty at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Jentleson was a panelist discussing “The National Security Consequences of the War in Iraq” for U.S. State Department-funded program.

12 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Kenneth Rogerson, research director for the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and Laurie Bley, director of the Media Fellows Program, spoke at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City on Jan. 26 and 27. They were invited by Prende, the Foundation for Press and Democracy, and the university’s com- munication department to talk about the role of Kudos media in a democracy. Rogerson spoke on NSF grant supports study component of freedom of expression. “Watchdogs, Lapdogs or Bulldogs” and Bley By improving understanding of election talked about “Global Media Challenges.” Both of international election monitoring, this project will support the also discussed the work of the DeWitt Wallace spread of individual human rights and Center in a radio interview and in meetings with monitoring local academics and media. help external actors design effective poli- By Kirran Syed cies and programs to achieve these ends.” David Schanzer, visiting associate professor of PPS and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, gave an inter- Judith Kelley, view Jan. 29 on Carolina Journal Radio about the assistant professor Alden honored for National Security Agency’s warrantless surveil- of PPS,won a service-learning work lance program. He served on a panel for the $141,000 National Southern Journalists Roundtable titled “New Science Foundation Betsy Alden, visiting lecturer in PPS, Challenges for a Changing North Carolina” for grant to assess how received the inaugural Robert L.Sigmon the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC- election monitors Award in recognition of her contribu- Chapel Hill on Jan. 30. His article “The War on Terror: A Fifth Year Status Report” was published affect the outcomes tions to advancing the practice of serv- in the Winter 2005 edition of Carolina Banker. His and legitimacy of ice learning. op-ed “Detect Scissors, Not Bombs” was pub- elections,as well as the role elections Alden serves as service-learning lished in the Raleigh News & Observer on Dec. 20. play in democratic transitions. coordinator for Duke’s Kenan Institute Donald Taylor, assistant professor of public poli- International election monitors have for Ethics at Duke,working with faculty, cy, gave a policy briefing in Washington, D.C., on increasingly appeared on the scene students, community agencies and the Jan. 26 for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation since the mid-1980s. There are many Durham public schools to promote the based on his research into the question, “Does personal accounts of election observers, integration of ethical reflection and hospice save Medicare money?” but systematic analyses of international service experiences into the undergrad- Susan Tifft, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the election monitoring are lacking. This uate curriculum. Practice of Journalism and PPS, attended the three-year study represents an impor- The award was presented Feb.15 White House Conference on Aging from Dec. 11 tant step toward correcting this shortfall, during the 8th annual North Carolina to 15 in Washington, D.C., as part of her research for her upcoming book about women and age Kelley said. Campus Compact Service-Learning (projected publication 2008). “I have already started the work and Conference held at Elon University. am involving MPP students in the project, The Robert L.Sigmon Service- James W. Vaupel, director of the Program on Population, Policy and Aging, gave a talk titled ”Kelley said. “I am thrilled that this is Learning Award will be presented each “Genetics and Genomics of Human Aging” Dec. 1 something students can get involved in.” year to a North Carolina faculty or staff as part of the Genomes@4 Series of biweekly Marin Magat,a second-year MPP stu- member who has made significant con- presentations engaging diverse perspectives on dent,is working as a research assistant tributions toward furthering the prac- the impact of the genome revolution. on the grant, and other student assis- tice of service learning. It is named for Jacob Vigdor, assistant professor of public policy, tants will be needed,Kelley said. North Carolinian Robert L.Sigmon,con- in January presented a paper titled “Bad Seeds,” The study will code hundreds of sidered to be one of the pioneers in the co-authored with Brian Jacob (Harvard) at the reports and primary documents from service learning field. American Economic Association Annual election monitoring organizations. All Alden has been involved with serv- Meeting in Boston. He presented at the Univer- sity of Arkansas Department of Education Reform data will be digitally archived and made ice-learning initiatives since the early a paper titled “Teacher Bonuses and Teacher available to other researchers. This new 1980s, when she served on the board of Retention in Low-Performing Schools: Evidence source of information is expected to fur- directors of the National Partnership for from the North Carolina $1,800 Teacher Bonus ther research into factors that serve as Service-Learning. She implemented Program,” coauthored with Charlie Clotfelter, indicators of democratic growth. successful service-learning programs in Sunny Ladd and Beth Glennie. In November There is clearly more to democracy Texas and New Mexico before joining Vigdor attended the APPAM meetings and pre- than elections, Kelley said in her propos- Duke in 1997. During her tenure at sented that paper, as well as, “Should Sixth Graders Attend Middle School? A Study of Grade al for the grant. Duke, she has been instrumental in the Configuration and Behavior” co-authored with “However, genuine elections are an growth and institutionalization of serv- Phil Cook, Clara Muschkin and Rob MacCoun important human right and an essential ice learning across the campus. (UC-Berkeley). He also co-authored a third paper presented at the meetings, “Is There A College Drinking Problem.” Jonathan Wiener, professor at the Duke schools “Precaution Against Terrorism,” and “Comparing For Institute Faculty In the News please of law and environment, who is on sabbatical Risk Regulation in the U.S. and Europe.” Wiener visit the Sanford Institute Web site at leave in France, gave several talks in the fall in also presented “Climate Change Policy” at the Europe on topics including “The Institutional Environmental Summit at the Nicholas Institute www.pubpol.duke.edu Origins of Transatlantic Discord on Climate for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke and select the News Media tab. Change,” “Federalism and Pre-emption,” University on Sept. 21.

Winter 2006 13 Alumni News

MPP Notes Fernando Lohmann (’04) accept- Sadia Hassain-Mian (’03) and her of the Maryland Association of ed an associate position at GG husband, Osman, have relocated Nonprofit Organizations. In his Investimentos, a private equity firm to Bahrain. new position, Stephen writes and Drew Cummings (’05) and his in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Fernando and speaks about the effects of state and wife, Amy, welcomed son Webb Jennifer Nevin (’03) received a his wife, Danielle Leao (MBA ’04), federal budgets on low- and middle- Martin into the world on Aug. 31, Meritorious Honor Award from announce the birth of their first income residents of Maryland. 2005. Drew has been promoted to USAID in the fall of 2005. son, Thomas, Nov. 16, 2005, in assistant to the town manager in Patrick Garvey (’97) was sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Perry Payne Jr. (’03) has Carrboro, N.C., and his wife began accepted a new position as an assis- Baghdad to assess progress in a job coordinating after-school Mark Moland (’04) has been tant professor for the National American stabilization efforts in his programs at the Emily Krzyzewski appointed assistant dean of aca- Human Genome Center at Howard role as a staff member for the Family Life Center near Duke’s demics at the Coast Guard University College of Medicine. Senate Committee on Foreign campus. Academy for two years. Relations. His trip report was Jennifer Loukissas Lynott (’02) shared with the Senate Committee Ivan Urlaub (’05) has been pro- Craig Harper (’03) and his wife, has joined the National Cancer on Foreign Relations in December. moted to executive director of the Claire (MEM ’02), welcomed Institute’s Office of Communica- North Carolina Sustainable Energy Wilson Leopold Harper on New tions, Communications Strategy Josh Pepin (’97) has accepted a Association. He also was appointed Year’s Day. He was the first baby of and Programs Branch, to work new job as director of retail practice to serve on the N.C. Joint Legisla- 2006 at Sibley Memorial Hospital on large-scale communications for the Palladium Group in Boston, tive Study Commission on Global in Washington, D.C. planning. The National Cancer Mass. Climate Change. Institute is part of the National Heidi Recksiek (’97) worked on Institutes of Health. community recovery planning in Mary Jane Davis (’01) has been Louisiana for the Federal Emer- promoted to the Commissioner’s gency Management Agency from Blue Ribbon Team as legal counsel December to February. Heidi lives in Charleston, S.C., where she

KAREN KEMP for class actions with the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. works for NOAA. Andrea Mazie (’00) and husband Jim Rettew (’97) is running for the Brendan O’Sullivan welcomed son Colorado State House of Repre- Benjamin Mazie O’Sullivan on sentatives, advocating a progressive Nov. 5, 2005. Andrea also is partici- platform that includes education pating in the Leadership Academy, funding and environmental protec- a yearlong program in Memphis. tion. Sandy Paul (’00) was promoted to Mandy Tipton Bassow (’97) has national research director at Delta joined the National Fish & Wildlife Associates. Sandy supervises real Foundation as program director for estate research in seven markets the Chesapeake Bay Targeted nationwide and works with eco- Watershed Grants Program. She nomic development officials on previously worked for the EPA for smart growth strategies and long- almost nine years. range planning issues. He and his Marlet Cox Becnel (’96), her wife, Leslie, welcomed daughter husband, Pernell, and son, Ryan, Emma on Oct. 7, 2005. announce the birth of Devin Joshua Marcelo Fava (’99) and his wife, on Oct. 7, 2005. Marlet is the vice Daniela, welcomed daughter Olivia president for institutional consult- on Dec. 15, 2005. Marcelo also has ing at Francis Financial Group been promoted to senior manager LLC. at Accenture. Kevin Cook (’96) and his wife, Silvia Shin (’99) married Jeremy Linda, welcomed their second Lisnoff in Narragansett, R.I., in child, Sofia, on Dec. 1, 2005. January. MPP classmates Ben Chris Spahr (’96) and his wife, Marglin (’99) and Mary Elizabeth Sonali, welcomed a new daughter, Linden Suprock (’99) attended Janhvi, on Nov. 5, 2005. the wedding. Jon Rosenwasser (’95) married Jeffrey Bland (’98) and his wife, Jennifer Zwilling on Nov. 12, 2005 Karen, announce the birth of their in Columbus, Ohio. The announce- second child, Sawyer, on Aug. 13, ment appeared on the New York 2005. Times wedding page. Jon recently MPP alumna Ellen Goodwin chats with first-year MPP Erin (Hye Michael Daulton (’97) was pro- left his position with Booz Allen Won) Kim about her job at AARP during a Sanford Institute career moted to director of conservation Hamilton for a posting in the U.S. development session in Washington, D.C., in January. Students got career policy for the National Audubon intelligence community. advice from alumni working in nonprofits, government agencies and con- Society. Scott Bauer (’95) and his wife, sulting firms during the annual two-day visit. Goodwin has since changed Stephen Elmore (’97) is the direc- Meg, announce the birth of their jobs, and works as an international trade economist in the intelligence tor of the Maryland Budget and Tax daughter, Tess Clark Bauer, on Oct. community. Policy Institute, which is a project 31, 2005.

14 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Laura Barton (’94) recently joined Shaun works at IBM Business David Alexander (’88) is in his Jan. 13. Dale and his family live in the board of directors of the D.C. Consulting Services in New York. sixth year of practicing law at his San Diego, Calif. Chapter of Women in Defense, part Tammy Kukla (’93) has become own firm in Durham, N.C. Rafael Aranda (’87) and his wife, of the National Defense Industry director of programming for Women Jess Hale (’88) is working as an ad- Alina, welcomed a new son, Association. She continues her work in Cable & Telecommunications, a junct instructor for Austin Peay State Federico, on Dec. 20, 2005. Rafael as a senior engagement manager at leadership organization. University’s political science depart- works for Avantel in Mexico City. Roam Secure Inc., an Arlington, Olga Marta Corrales (’92) is coor- ment. He published articles in the Mary Schneider Kiger (’82) is an Va.-based company that produces Journal of Lutheran Ethics, the Stone- emergency text alerting software. dinating the Model Forest Network independent consultant working as for Latin America and the Carib- Campbell Journal and the Cumberland a regional manager for the National Shaun Barry (’93) has been bean at CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Law Review in 2005. He continues to Council on the Aging and on the appointed to the Taxpayer Advo- Rica, where she lives with her hus- work as a senior legislative attorney My Medicare Matters Campaign. cacy Panel, established in 2002 band, David Feingold (MPP ’92). for the Tennessee legislature working under the Federal Advisory primarily on health care policy. Krista Magaw (’81) and the Julie Katz Oletsky (’89) and her Tecumseh Land Trust in Ohio Committee Act. The panel identi- Dale Royal ('88) his wife, Dina, fies issues and suggests ways to husband, Neal, welcomed twins, received the Conservation a boy, Jesse, and a girl, Jordon, on and daughters, Sydney and Kendall, Achievement Award from the Ohio improve Internal Revenue Service welcomed a son and brother, Deven customer satisfaction and services. Oct. 13, 2005. Environmental Counsel. Krista is Alexander Wardell Royal, on executive director of the trust.

Undergraduate with the law firm Covington and University’s Mandel School of Burling, and Christine is an in-house Applied Social Sciences. He also is Notes counsel for Ritz Camera’s corporate president of the Ohio Program real estate department. They reside Evaluator’s Group. He and his wife Laurie Ball (’04) joined the staff of and work in Washington, D.C. welcomed their third son, Eamon ELVEDINA DÏEKO ELVEDINA the Mozaik Community Develop- Jake Phillips (’99) joined the law Joseph, in March 2005. ment Foundation in Bosnia and firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Alyson Hyman (’88) celebrated Herzegovina for an additional year Washington, D.C., as an associate the one-year anniversary of her mar- after conducting research there as a after clerking for U.S. Supreme riage to Amy Entwistle on New Year’s 2004-2005 Hart Fellow. Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Eve. Alyson is the senior training and Elizabeth Chang Tsai (’02) and Eric Friedman (’97) is working as a services advisor at IPAS, an interna- Daniel Tsai (BME ’02) were married strategy manager for The Wall Street tional women’s reproductive health on July 2, 2005. Journal. and rights organization based in Chapel Hill, N.C. Lindsey Neilsson Angelats (’01) Christine Lin Allen (’96) and her and Rafael Angelats (T ’01) married husband, Rob, welcomed their first Laurie Ball (PPS ’04) stands Denise DiBlasi Olivares (’88) is on July 3, 2005, in San Mateo, Calif., child, Samuel, on Oct. 27, 2005. with the Haliloviæ family beside a vice president of strategic marketing and live in San Francisco. Lindsey Christine works as a staff attorney in new tractor purchased for a village alliances at AXA Financial Services. She was a contributing reviewer to a graduated from the Harvard School of the criminal unit of the Ninth Circuit in Bosnia and Herzegovina where Public Health with an MS in Health 2004 financial services marketing U.S. Court of Appeals. The family she worked as a Hart Fellow. Policy and Management in June 2005. lives in Santa Cruz County, Calif. textbook for LOMA, an insurance She is a strategic planning analyst for Laurie and her co-workers appealed and financial services association, the Lucile Packard Children’s Caleb Burns (’96) is practicing law to family and friends and raised and spent much of 2005 developing Hospital at Stanford University. in the campaign finance and gov- money for the equipment, as well as exam questions and answers. ernment ethics group of Wiley Rein for other agricultural expenditures David Sapp (’01) graduated from & Fielding LLP in Washington, D.C. Marc H. Supcoff (’88) has expand- Stanford Law School in May 2005 He and his wife, Liza, recently wel- and investments, such as seeds and ed his construction and real estate and is clerking for U.S. District comed daughter Avery. gas, for the town of Tegare. One law practice by opening a new office Court Judge Myron H. Thompson in villager told her, “I want to thank in lower Manhattan. Alabama. David will return to David Brackett (’93) is a partner at you, but I know I cannot because Bondurant Mixson and Elmore LLP. Ann Hardison Davison (’86) is a North Carolina in the fall as a there are not words this big.” partner and the deputy general Skadden Fellow at N.C. Legal Aid, He practices commercial litigation in Atlanta, Ga. manager for Fleishman Hillard where he will be a statewide advo- International Communication’s cate for children’s services. Michelle Charlesworth (’92) is in investigation. He will resume his office in Florida. She also is the Sarah Chasnowitz (’00) and fellow her eighth year at ABC News in duties as an assistant U.S. attorney chair of Fleishman Hillard’s social Duke alumna Beth Richardson New York anchoring the news on in Washington, D.C., in May. Chad marketing practice group. the weekends and reporting three and his wife, Christina, welcomed started www.zebracrossings.net/, Debby Stone Flannery (’84) was an online store to sell stylish beaded days a week. She and her husband, their second child, Raquel Wynne, Steve, live in New Jersey. on Dec. 26, 2005. named a finalist for the National bra straps made by previously unem- Association of Women Business Own- ployed people in Cape Town, South Amiel Handelsman (’92) splits his William Silva (’91) and his private ers’ Atlanta “member of the year” Africa. They started the company time between CuriousLeader Con- company, Woodman Development award. She is a professional life coach after working in South Africa and sulting, an executive coaching com- Co. LLC, are involved in a base who works out of Alpharetta, Ga. seeing the impact of the country’s pany, and the start-up of a leader- reuse project at former Fort Ord in high unemployment rate. ship center for progressive politics. Monterey County, Calif. Bill Schaller (’77) started a new Chasnovitz is a law student at His blog on leadership in politics can company, Ultraco LLC, to provide UNC-Chapel Hill, while Daniel Hackney (’89) is a senior education about ultra-low sulfur be found at www.disciplinedprogres policy analyst for Los Angeles Richardson works at Self-Help in sive.org. Amiel lives in Portland, Ore. diesel and biodiesel, and to broker Durham. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. He and and deliver various fuel and energy Chad T. Sarchio (’92) participated his wife, Megan, have two daughters. systems. Bill’s company is based in Christine Hines (’00) and Robert in the Senate Homeland Security Robert Fischer (’88) has been pro- Zebulon, N.C. Hines (’99) are expecting their first and Governmental Affairs child in June. Robert is an attorney moted to research associate profes- Committee’s Hurricane Katrina sor at Case Western Reserve Winter 2006 15 Calendar PUBLIC POLICY March 2, 4:30 p.m. March 28, 6 p.m. April 9, 3:30 p.m. Sanford Building, Room 04 Sanford Building, Room 04 Carolina Theatre, Durham “Iraq, Torture and Domestic Juliet Eilperin: Fight Club Politics • Documentary Film • Terry Sanford Spying: What’s the Right Strategy Washington Post and the New in the War on Terror?” • A panel writer Juliet South debuts at Focus discussion with David Schanzer, Eilperin talks the Full Frame director, about her new Documentary is published four times Triangle Center book, Fight Club Film Festival. a year by the on Terrorism Politics: How The screening, Terry Sanford Institute and Homeland Partisanship is sponsored by of Public Policy Security; PPS Poisoning the Thirteen/ Duke University Professor Bruce House of WNET New Box 90239 W. Jentleson, Representatives. 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