In the Wake of the Tsunami

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CAN NEWS BE SAVED ? A R D I N

DeWitt Wallace E R Center Plans to Try By Karen Kemp

The headlines about newspapers are bleak: In December, Detroit papers curtailed home deliveries saying, “We’re fighting for our survival.” The Christian Science Monitor ceased all print publication and is now avail - able only online. The venerable Chicago Tribune filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Popular person-to-person, online advertising services such as Craigslist and Monster.com have gutted a core revenue Students Jam Sanford on Election Night Nearly 700 Duke students crowded into the Sanford stream for newspapers, classified advertis - Institute Building Nov. 4, 2008 to witness the historic election of Barack Obama, the nation’s ﬁrst ing. Layoffs and closures are common and African American president. Please see pages 12-15 for more political and election related news, events news sections are shrinking as old business and research from the fall semester, as well as what’s coming in the spring. models crumble in the face of electronic innovation. As a consequence, the “watchdog” role of the press is in jeopardy, says Professor of In the Wake of the Tsunami PPS and Economics James “Jay” Hamilton, the new director of the DeWitt Wallace By Jackie Ogburn In February 2005 Bondan Sikoki, Survey - Center (DWC) for Media and Democracy. METER’s director, discussed the idea with Fewer news outlets than ever can afford to n December 26, 2004, the Sumatra- representatives from the Aceh branch of the devote resources to the time-consuming, Andaman earthquake spawned a tsu - Indonesian government’s national statistics bu- investigative journalism needed to uncover O nami that wreaked havoc on countries reau , Statistics Indonesia. The team de signed with coastlines bordering the Indian Ocean. a study that re-interviewed (Please see page 17) government or corporate wrongdoing. Indonesia was hardest hit, with more than A related proble m— given that con - 130,000 people killed, 30,000 missing, half a sumer advertising drives the creation of million more displaced, and miles of coastline news and informatio n— is that relatively scraped clean of villages and trees. little of the information essential to effec - Soon after the disaster, Elizabeth Franken- tive participation in our society is made berg, associate professor of PPS, and Duncan accessible to low-income people. These Thomas, professor of economics, began to knowledge gaps threaten democracy, which talk with colleagues at SurveyMETER, a re - relies on an informed electorate. search NGO in Indonesia, about conducting a “There’s a gap between what people study in the region. Frankenberg and Thomas want to know and what they need to know, have worked with the NGO since the mid and for most people, it doesn’t pay to be in - 1990s on a number of longitudinal data collec - formed,” Hamilton said. (Please see page 16) tion projects. Institute Updates

Letter from the Director ronmental policy, health policy, global gover - intensively on areas in which its distinguished nance and international development policy. A faculty already make significant contributions: As the New Year begins, fourth area of emphasis is social policy, whose education policy, poverty, child and family pol - we all are facing new eco - importance will only be accentuated by our icy, racial and ethnic disparities, aging, and nomic realities. These nation’s recent economic difficulties. social deviancy. These areas also are priorities external factors certainly The social challenges facing the United for three active university research centers: make it more challenging States are enormous. The gap between rich the Center for Child and Family Policy; the for the Institute to raise and poor is larger than that of any other Population, Policy and Aging Research Center; the funds needed to advanced country. Disparities in income are and the Social Science Research Institute. reach our goal of becom - associated with well documented disparities In partnership with such nationally recog - ing a school on July 1. in education, the criminal justice system, and nized centers, the new public policy school Nonetheless, because we are rooted in “outra - in access to health care. Existing racial and eth - will extend Duke’s position as a leader in trans - geous ambitions,” we remain optimistic. nic disparities intensify as waves of new immi - lating outstanding research in these critical President Brodhead told Duke faculty and grants remake the fabric of local communities. areas of social policy into better schools, staff that the university enjoys relative stabili - Meanwhile, our educational system fails to stronger families, and a higher quality of life ty; however, a 19 percent drop in endowment educate large numbers of poor and minority for Americans at all levels of society. revenue over the last six months means that all students to the levels required of an increas - These are worthy goals, regardless of the schools and departments must seek ways to ingly global and knowledge-based society. vagaries of the economy. As President Brodhead trim expenses. Many of the critical challenges facing the said, “The most successful universities are the Duke surpassed its goal of raising $300 residents of North Carolina are also the prob - ones that have a clear sense of where they want million for financial aid, an initiative in which lems of the South, of the nation and of commu - to go and continue to make progress toward Sanford Institute donors played a key role, nities around the world. These challenge s— essential goals in both fair weather and foul.” providing endowment resources to increase strengthening education for all children, com - As a school-to-be, we know where we want to financial support for public policy students. bating poverty, promoting better race relations, go, and with your help we will get there. And, we’re more than three-quarters of the and improving the quality of lif e— have been way toward our $40 million school goal. In the at the heart of the Terry Sanford Institute’s con - Best regards, months ahead, we’ll continue working diligent - cerns from its inception, and will be central to ly to inspire additional partners to support our its concerns as we begin our life as a school. vision for public policy education. To maximize Duke’s impact on the most Previously I described compo nents of that important social policy issues of the day, the vision: Addressing issues in energy and envi - new public policy school will focus more Bruce Kuniholm U N I Friedman Calls for ‘Green Revolution’ V E R S I T

Thomas Friedman signs his book for MPP student Jackie Mellilo Y

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22, 2008. Friedman spent the day at Duke talking with students and O G

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“Green is obviously the new red, white and blue,” Friedman said. H He advocated for America to take the lead in sustainable energy Y innovation during an evening address in Page Auditorium. He out - lined the challenges and opportunities of energy poverty, climate change and biodiversity loss, then answered questions previously submitted by students. In the afternoon, he was part of a panel discussion with Jay Hamilton, professor of PPS, Thomas Katsouleas, dean of engineer - ing, Richard Newell, professor of environmental economics, and Blair Sheppard, dean of the business school. A three-time Pulitzer-prize winner and New York Times columnist, Friedman came to campus as the 2008 Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecturer to talk about his new best-selling book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America. The Sanford Lecture was endowed by a gift to the university from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust in honor of the late Terry Sanford.

2 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus BOV Member, Alum Works at Eye of Financial Storm U N I By Gabe Starosta V the Fed, particularly at the New York ofﬁce. E R

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She was busy trying to save the financial Y to deal with crisis after crisis,” Dahlgren said. world. “Every thing happened so fast. It’s one thing Dahlgren (MA ’89) has spent the last 18 when the government has to deal with a sin - years at the Federal Reserve’s New York gle crisis at a time, but we’ve been dealing branch, serving in a variety of roles. She is cur - with multiple crises over weekends and even rently a Senior Vice President in the Bank join the Fed, where she has been ever since. within weeks.” Supervision group, and on Sept. 16 she was “I certainly didn’t go in thinking I would be Dahlgren, who is serving her second reassigned to lead a team supervising the here for as long as I have been, but every time I three-year term on the Sanford Board, said Federal Reserve’s loan to faltering insurance start to think, ‘Hmm, maybe I should look for she has enjoyed serving and welcomes the giant AIG. something different,’ my job changes,” Dahl - opportunity to give back to Duke. After graduating from Duk e—Dahlgren gren said. “We hit a crisis, we have something “It’s been exciting to watch the evolution said she was based in the Old Chem building, new, different or exciting, and that’s what of the Board. When I was at Duke close to because the Sanford building was not yet really draws you in.” 20 years ago, the Board of Visitors existed buil t— the Alaska native spent a year work - The last several months have certainly then but in a much different way,” Dahlgren ing for the City of New York’s Department of been different and exciting on Wall Street, as said. “They’ve made it a much more active Corrections. There, Dahlgren spent much of the New York Fed and the Federal Treasury Board, especially after they’ve started think - her time at Rikers Island prison, a year she have organized bailouts of some of the finan - ing about making [the Sanford Institute] a called a “fascinating learning experience.” In cial sector’s biggest firms. Not surprisingly, school at Duke.” 1990, Dahlgren left municipal government to Dahlgren said it has been a stressful time at

Annual Fund, visit www.pubpol.duke.edu/ Democracy, Burness will teach a class on higher Sanford Briefs development , or call 919-613-7325 to speak education and the media next fall. with a member of the development staff. Annual Fund Update • When public policy Advising Award • Donna Dyer, director of students returned from winter break, they had Special Advisor • Ambassador James career services and alumni relations, received a nice surprise: 64 electrical outlets installed in Joseph, professor of the practice of PPS, is the 2007-08 Duke University Excellence in the Fleishman Commons and the overlooking working with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to Academic Advising Award in recognition of her pods. The outlets, which facilitate student use restructure its programs in Southern Africa. work in pre-major advising. She was selected of laptops throughout the building, were in- Operations in the foundation’s Pretoria, South from among 130 advisors, based on nomina - stalled after Sanford Annual Fund contributions Africa, office were suspended in November tions from undergraduates. matched a gift from the Herman Goldman 2008 while a forensic financial audit is con - One student commented: “Her sincere Foundation. ducted. Preliminary findings indicate that sev - interest and confidence in me has allowed me The newly launched Annual Fund is mak - eral hundred thousand dollars may have been to take more academic risks because I know ing an impact on the lives of students through illegally diverted. that ultimately she is there to support me and projects such as this, supporting summer “Ambassador Joseph’s stature, record of to advocate for my best interests.” internships and addressing the most pressing achievement, and reputation for integrity gives funding priorities of the Institute and soon-to- us great confidence in our ability to continue Development Grows • The Sanford devel - be school. Alumni, parents and friends are serving children and communities in Botswana, opment office has added two new members: rallying to help reach this year’s $100,000 Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Beth Gettys Sturkey as associate director and fundraising goal. Swaziland, and Zimbabwe,” said Sterling K. director of advancement services, and Tim “We need participation from our entire Speirn, president and CEO of the foundation. Young (G ’06) as development officer and Sanford community to reach our goal and to assistant director. Sturkey worked as a major maintain momentum,” said Deirdre Gordon, Faculty Addition • John Burness, former gifts officer for Environmental Defense Fund associate director of development. “Every gift senior vice president for public affairs and and was associate director of the Annual Fund is important.” With Annual Fund contributions government relations at Duke University, has at Duke, along with other positions. She holds of just over $75,000 at calendar year-end, the joined Sanford as a visiting professor of the an MS in higher education administration and Sanford Institute is relying on help from under - practice. He has begun writing a regular col - student counseling/development from Florida graduate and graduate alumni, students, par - umn for The Chronicle of Higher Education and State University. Young held previous develop - ents and friends of the Institute to reach the researching a book. As a faculty affiliate with ment positions at Peace College and in the uni - goal by June 30. To make a gift to the Sanford the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and versity development office at Duke.

Winter 2009 3 Mayer Ending Service as Director of Graduate Studies U fter serving for eight years as N PhD program in public policy, with I V E

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ate Professor of PPS and Political H “During Fritz’s tenure as director O

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the academic year. H us what we are,” said Sanford Inst - “Stepping away from the gradu - Y itute Director Bruce Kuniholm . ate programs is difficult for me; I Beginning July 1, Associate Pro - really enjoy what I do,” said Mayer. fessor of PPS Elizabeth Frank en - “It has been a great privilege to berg will become the director of the serve the Sanford community as MPP programs and Associate Pro - DGS for the last eight years, and I fessor of PPS and Economics Jacob am very proud of what we have Vigdor will take on oversight of the together accomplished.” PhD program. As director, Mayer expanded the Mayer plans to focus on research masters in public policy (MPP) re- and finishing a book on narrative cruiting efforts to new markets and and collective action. He is in - increased the average class size from volved in several projects on global - 25 to 30 students per year to 50. He ization and governance, including created the MPP degree concentra - work for the International Labor tions in global, social, and health policy and School of Business at UNC, Chapel Hill. Organiza tion on protecting workers in global started the Geneva summer program, which Mayer supported student initiatives such production networks. offers Sanford and other graduate students a as the Living Policy Forum and the Duke/ “I want to thank Fritz for the job he has 12-week summer internship with a world poli - New Orleans Post-Katrina Initiative that done so well,” said Kuniholm. “While I cy-making organization with related course - offer students ways to use their policymaking expect great things as he dedicates himself work. He expanded the joint master’s de gree skills in the community. He also increased more fully to his research, I also expect that programs with the Duke Law School, Fuqua the administrative staff to provide support for his passion for these programs will lead him School of Business, the School of Medi cine, the the expanded programs. to once again play an important role in our Nicholas School of the Environment, and with In fall 2007, Mayer also welcomed the soon-to-be school.” other universities, such as the Kenan- Flagler first class of students in the interdisciplinary

New Policy Courses teach “Leadership for Public Life,” meant to will teach “International Democratization,” inspire student leaders to consider the chal - intended to critically analyze and assess inter - Many of the new PPS courses for spring are lenges and opportunities unique to college national efforts to promote domestic policy geared towards developing leadership and a students and explore what it means to develop reforms in the political and economic realms. sense of civic duty and engagement in students. a public self. Giovanni Zanalda, visiting assistant pro - Hart Leadership Program Director Alma Thomas Ahn, a research associate in the fessor of PPS, will teach “Globalization in Blount will teach “Border Crossings,” a prepa - Center for Child and Family Policy, will teach a Historical Perspective.” The course examines ration course for students wishing to conduct course in K-12 education policy. Topics to be the issues of growth and development, review - community-based research projects through covered include legislation, achievement gaps ing phenomena, institutions and policies that Service Opportunities in Leadership. Through and teacher retention. have historically enabled the exchange of com - case studies of religious and political conflicts Associate Professor of PPS M. Giovanna modities, people and cultures. at home and abroad, students will explore Merli will teach “Population, Health and William Darity, professor of PPS, will teach leadership as the art of working with group Policy.” The course will use demographic mod - “Monument and Memory,” focusing on the conflict. Students will also learn basic research els to study the policy debates around topics construction of racial histories through memo - methods, including the ethics of human sub - of health in industrialized and developing rials. Students will visit local memorials. jects research. societies. Visiting Lecturer Ted Vaden will teach Visiting Lecturer Christopher Gergen will “Designing Innovation for Global Health,” “Public Service Journalism,” in which students teach “Leadership & Social Innovation,” a gate - taught by Anthony So, director of the Program will examine the changing economic model of way course for the Entrepreneurial Leadership on Global Health and Technology Access, will newspapers and solutions that could sustain Initiative. The course will examine the relation - lead students to consider what factors help the public service function of journalism. ship between social entrepreneurship and the enable local innovation, from intellectual and To give students the standard tools for public good, with the intent of steering students financial capital to end-user input and systems research in the social sciences, Professor of towards a research service learning project. for sharing and owning knowledge. Economics and PPS Seth Sanders will teach HLP Assistant Director David Gastwirth will Judith Kelley, assistant professor of PPS, “Advanced Statistical Methods.”

4 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Students Named Federal Ambassadors Hart Partners with Local Two Sanford Institute students are among 15 college students nationwide selected as Federal Service Student Ambas sadors (FSSA) for the 2008- Muslim Youth Programs 09 school year. Jeremy Cluchey, a second- year MPP student, and Nick Campisano, a PPS senior, were selected by the Part ner ship for Public uring the spring semester, 30 Duke students in Hart Service, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that works to Leadership Program Director Alma Blount ’s “Border revitalize the federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve. D Cross ing” course will assist the Islamic Association of Cluchey and Campisano both interned in federal offices during the Raleigh (IAR) by writing grant proposals and helping to design summer projects for the Triangle Youth Leadership Program. summer of 2008. Cluchey worked with the Physical Infrastructure team The service work will continue a three-year relationship at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he audited the between Blount, Hart and IAR that grew into the inaugural efficiency of the U.S. Postal Service’s delivery systems. Before enrolling Triangle Youth Leadership Program last summer. Three area in graduate school at Duke, Cluchey had worked on education policy mosques sent 19 students to the 10-week program called “The issues for Experience Corps and the Albert Shanker Institute, among American Political System and the Muslim Role in It.” other positions. The program included two sessions a week, group service Campisano served as a research assistant at the Federal Communica - projects and reﬂective writing exercises. Students met with local tions Commission. He worked in Commission er Robert McDowell’s office politicians and media professionals, visited the state legislature alongside his three legal advisors, covering telecommunications hear - and attended seminars with Islamic experts in the Triangle area. ings, writing comment summaries, drafting speeches and organizing Dr. Ahmad Rufai Abdullah of IAR and Blount hope to expand arguments. Details on the FSSA program are available online . the youth leadership program in the summer of 2009. Research Service-Learning Livens Up PPS Coursework

By Leslie Griffith mentary on starvation actually helped get the Food Bank started.” he weather was a chilly 40 Lee and his classmates pre- degrees at 9 a.m. when Duke screened candidates to assess their T sophomore Charlotte Pinkard eligibility for food stamps. Sophomore arrived at the farm just outside of Matt Keshian said the experience Durham. While many other students exposed him to the frustration some were still asleep, Pinkard began food stamp applicants feel. He re - trudging up and down the field, col - counted how one woman he’d pre- lecting unharvested sweet potatoes screened had applied several times for donation to local food pantries. but never been eligible. Pinkard and five other students “A lot of times you hear what poli - spent the day with the Society of St. cymakers have to say but not what Andrew, gleaning pounds of non- people who are affected have to say,” regulation size sweet potatoes left be - Keshian said. hind by farmers. Along with students A partnership with Meals on organized by Meals on Wheels and Wheels gave junior Charmaine Web - PPS 114 students, from left, Charlotte Pinkard, Kimberly the Food Bank of Central and East - ster insight into how nonprofits func - Atkins, Andrew Hollar, Philip Danser, Jeremy Von Halle , ern North Carolina, they were par - tion and the importance of recruiting and Alex Mendez pause after helping to glean 8,700 pounds of ticipating in the research service- and maintaining volunteers. Webster sweet potatoes. learning component of PPS 114, and her fellow RSL students are plan - taught by Ken Rogerson, lecturer in PPS. the field wasn’t empty, Pinkard said. Her day ning a hunger summit for Durham and work - The course, offered in conjunction with the in the field and her conversations with the ing with the Meals on Wheels director to Hart Leadership Program’s RSL Pathway in Society of St. Andrew’s director pushed her address a volunteer shortage. Public Policy, lets students observe firsthand to consider the interactions between federal “We’re helping them figure out their vol - the impact of the policies they study. tax policies and food security. Pinkard’s group unteer issue s— the price of gas is so high that Gleaning opened Pinkard’s eyes to the had examined the tax break given to farmers many people couldn’t volunteer if they want - volume of edible food that goes to waste in who allow gleaning and how altering that ed to, so we’re trying to come up with some agriculture. policy might affect the amount gleaned. incentives,” Webster said. “I didn’t realize how much would be left Sophomore Ken Lee realized the connec - Although people may not view the Food after the harvest,” she said. “Access to fresh tion between his service and classroom expe - Bank or similar organizations as political fruit and vegetables, which we can provide riences on his first day working with the entities, food security and food safety issues with gleaning, is a huge factor in food security.” Food Bank. are inherently political, Rogerson said. “We The students, along with roughly 75 other “We had just done a lecture on the role of tend to separate “feel-good” community serv - community volunteers, gathered 8,700 pounds media in policymaking when I did my train - ice from politics,” Rogerson said. “I want of sweet potatoes in one da y— and even then ing,” Lee said. “They explained how a docu - them to see the political connection.”

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tion in 2003, Taylor’s government controlled reporter present, and Taylor had not claimed Smith Testifies at only a small part of the county around the there were any inaccuracies in the published capitol. piece.” Testifying would not compromise his Taylor now faces charges of crimes against work since Smith was not asked to reveal War Crimes Trial humanity and war crimes involving murder, sources, and other questions were to estab - mutilation, rape, terror against civilians, en - lish certain facts for the record or about his By Jackie Ogburn slavement, pillage and the use of child sol - personal experiences. diers. Taylor, prosecutors allege, launched One of those experiences was what court hen working as a journalist in and funded the Revolutionary United Front reports called “the incident with Charles West Africa over the past two (RUF) in neighboring Sierra Leone and Taylor.” In August 1990, Smith had met with W decades, Stephen Smith, visiting allowed the RUF to establish military bases Taylor close to a battlefield near Monrovia. professor of PPS, inter - in Liberia. Later that evening, Smith was traveling with viewed warlord and for - In September 2008, Smith flew to The several other reporters when they passed mer president of Liberia Hague to appear as a witness for the prosecu - Roberts Airfield. Unknown to the group at Charles Taylor in set - tion before the Special Court for Sierra the time, an arms shipment for the rebels tings ranging from a Leone, an international tribunal at the Inter- was due in that night from Libya. swamp near Monrovia national Criminal Court. Smith testified for When Taylor saw the group, he had to a Paris hotel room. two days, based on his reporting of the con - Smith singled out and taken away by two This fall, they met flicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone from early bodyguards. Smith later learned that Taylor again in a very different 1990 through 2004. thought he was acting as a spy. On the way setting: the courtroom His primary testimony concerned an to a prison camp, the guards forced Smith to of Taylor’s war crime trial in The Hague. interview Smith and another journalist con - kneel by the side of the road. They held a Beginning in 1989, Taylor led the rebel ducted with Taylor, published in Le Monde in gun to his head. They fired, but he was not group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia 2000, during which Taylor discussed various sho t— it was a mock execution. Smith was (NPFL). Taylor’s troops were notorious for allegations against him, such as involvement held for a few days, then released. acts such as forced labor from civilians and in illegal diamond mining in Sierra Leone Still, Smith felt some ambivalence about abducting children to serve as soldiers in the and his authority with the RUF. Smith the experience of testifying. “As a journalist, “Small Boy Units.” thought hard before agreeing to testify. I trust words,” he said, but in the court set - Following a period of civil and ethnic war - “I felt comfortable with it because I was ting, “conversations become devious.” fare, Taylor was elected president of Liberia not being asked to turn over my notes, just The trial is continuing after more than a in 1997. Opposition continued throughout to testify to the facts,” he said. “The Le year and is expected to continue for several his presidency, and by the time of his resigna - Monde piece was an interview with another more months. L E

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shops for groups of 40 senior civil ser - D Kazakhstan Sign vants in the Provincial Civil Service (PCS) D two times each year for three years. Contracts with DCID Programming includes classroom sessions with DCID faculty and field The Duke Center for International Develop - experts, visits to regional government ment (DCID) secured three new contracts for and private-sector offices and a trip to customized executive education programs Washington, D.C. over the past year. “Overall, the participants have been Yangzhou, China • The success of the DCID pleased with the program thus far,” said executive education program for the State G.P. Shukla, co-director of the program. Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs International Develop ment Policy returned to (SAFEA), now in its fifth year, led to a new pro- Republic of Kazakhstan • In October campus to serve as teaching assistants: Kanat gram for Chinese officials that begins this month. 2008, DCID hosted two groups of 20 regional Ibrayev (PIDP ’07), Gaukhar Kassymzhanova The Yangzhou Youth Cadres Overseas and central-government civil servants. The (PIDP ’07) and Sholpan Spanova (PIDP ’08). Training Program for senior officials is mod - groups took part in a new customized program In addition to these new programs, DCID eled on the SAFEA program. Over a 19-week led by DCID faculty members titled, continues to provide customized training and period, participants will take courses at Duke “Administrative Reform: Decentrali za tion, education programs for the Indian Adminis - in public policy, administration and manage - Fiscal Planning and Management.” In addition trative Service, Government of India, and the ment led by DCID and Sanford Institute faculty. to their classroom training, program partici - pants visited government and private sector State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs Uttar Pradesh, India • Through an agree - offices such as the city of Charlotte and SAS. (SAFEA), People’s Republic of China. ment with the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Three alumni of the DCID Program in

6 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus than ever to have a credible claim that one America’s Hard Sell uses power more for shared benefits than self - ish interests. Mutuality also requires greater sharing of decision-making responsibilities By BRUCE W. JENTLESON and STEVEN WEBER around global issues. Some changes will be obvious, including the reform of major inter - For most of the second half of the 20th function of performance, not just process. national institutions which really do reflect a century, five Big Ideas shaped world politics: And while the most raw and visceral post World War II era nostalgia. A new opera - 1) Peace is better than war. expressions of anti-Americanism may very tional definition of multilateralism will emerge 2) Hegemony, at least the benign sort, is well subside when the Bush administration that enhances the effectiveness of action, better than a balance of power. leaves office, the “be like us” era (about which while being candid about its limitations. The some Americans will always wax nostalgic) United States could lead in this direction, but 3) Capitalism is better than socialism. will never return. Modernization did not so could many others, without the intellectual 4) Democracy is better than dictatorship. bring homogenization: culture and identity and emotional burdens of incumbency. 5) Western culture is better than all the rest. are powerful, enduring forces between and The second area of competition will be a On all five counts, the United States was within societies. notion of a just society that balances individ - widely seen as paragon and guarantor. These ual rights and social equity. It must make the Five Big Ideas, though, no longer are the The four central areas of provision for basic human need s— food, sound and sturdy guides they once were. The competition during at least the water and healt h— an explicit and direct challenge runs far deeper than the bad atmos - next decade will be: mutuality; component of social justice. In countries pherics created by the Bush administration. a just society; a healthy planet; plagued with mass poverty and endemic injus - The biggest and most basic questions of world tice, ‘freedom from’ is not enough; it also has politics are open for debate once again. and societal heterogeneity. to be about the ‘capacity to.’ People are look - Of course, peace is still better than war. ing not just to be protected from government, Unless, as some governments will profess, war but also to be protected by government. Any is wielded as an instrument of national policy, ideology that over-privileges proces s— even as was the case with the United States in Iraq, democratic proces s— but fails to deliver on Russia in Georgia, Ethiopia in Somalia, Israel basic human needs will lose. in Lebanon and others to come. Or, does The third area is the health of the planet peace remain superior if states want to pre - as a motivating vision that both inspires hope vent the killing of people in Darfur, end the and provides strategic direction. The envi - malign neglect in the aftermath of a natural ronmental movement is no longer simply disaster in Burma, or head off a pandemic about the environment. It’s equally about incubating within someone else’s borders? security, economics, social stability, natural With authority more contested and power disasters, and humanitarian crises. There are more diffuse, what are the rules for going to no more “externalities;” the system no longer war and keeping the peace? has that kind of slack. A healthy planet is the And who makes them? Hegemony, benign ultimate global public good. Sys tems of or otherwise, is no longer an optio n— not for wealth creation that ignore pollution won’t the United States, not for China, not for any - attract and hold followers for long. one. A 21st century version of 19th century The final challenge is societal heterogene - multipolarity is hardly possible. There are too ity, learning to live together amid differences of many players at too many tables for counting individual and group identities that breed fear and balancing poles of power. While some of “the other.” The migration of peoples has players still matter more than others, more combined with technologies of travel and com - players matter more deeply than ever before. In the United States, it is popular to declare munications to produce increasingly ex treme Non-state actor s— from the Gates Founda tion war on a problem. So, for example, U.S. politi - combinations of nationalities, races, ethnicities to IBM and Bon o— are frontline and auto- cal leaders, whether liberal or conservative, and religions within societies. Yet few commu - nomous global players. What’s the new order - consistently appeal for a “war of ideas” to nities exist harmoniously with heterogeneity. ing principle for decision making in a world defeat international terrorism. The metaphor The most important thing for Americans that is more networked than hierarchical? is crisp, actionable, and morally compelling. to recognize is that it really is a new game Capitalism decisively beat socialism. But It’s also wrong. The United States is facing a and that the challenge is fundamentally dif - it now has split into distinctive and compet - global competition of ideas, and the rules of ferent from containing communism or ing forms, with governments owning and engagement are much closer to those set out defeating terrorism. directing large parts of the economy in some by Milton Friedman than Carl von Clausewitz. of the most critical states and sectors. Has The four central areas of competition dur - Adapted from the article “America’s Hard Sell,” the market come to need the state as much ing at least the next decade will be: mutuality; published in Foreign Policy magazine, by Bruce as state needs the market? a just society; a healthy planet; and societal Jentleson, professor of PPS and political science, Democracy has brought freer societies. heterogeneity. and Steven Weber, professor of political science But is it as effective in efficiently creating just First, amidst the proliferation of nation - at University of California, Berkeley. Repro duced and peaceful ones? It is now hardly an accept - alisms and other narrow self-interests, who with permission from Foreign Policy #169 (Nov./ ance of repression to recognize the simple fact will commit to the mutuality essential to a Dec. 2008). www.foreignpolicy.com . © 2008 by that in many societies political legitimacy is a global era? 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Y 27-28, 2009 at the Rizzo Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. Lectures taking place on the Duke campus follow. For details, please visit the TISS web site . Jan. 15, 2009 of History John Lewis Gaddis, “Conversation on Iran,” Yale University. Michael Doran, senior direc - March 20, 2009 For more on the trip, tor for Near East and North “Disease, War, and Medicine,” please visit the blog African Affairs, National Heather Perry, assistant pro - “A (Duke) Passage to India. ” Security Council, and Bruce fessor of history, UNC- Bueno de Mesquita, profes - Charlotte. New Initiatives in India In the fall the Fuqua School of Busi ness launched sor of political science, New its new Cross-Continent program, which will place one of ﬁve hubs in New York University. March 26, 2009 “Iraq,” Meghan O’Sullivan, Delhi. Pictured at an April 2008 meeting to discuss future partnership s— Jan. 31, 2009 former Special Assistant to the including Sanford-sponsored public policy programming in Indi a— are, from “Genocide in World War II,” President and Deputy National left, Fuqua Dean Blair Sheppard, Sanford Director Bruce Kuniholm, Michael Geyer, German histo - Security Advisor for Iraq and Provost Peter Lange, Vijay Choudhary, Riaz Naqvi and Dharmendra ry professor, University of Deo Mishra. From Oct. 9 to 16, Kuniholm joined Duke Uni ver sity President Afghanistan. Chicago. Richard Brodhead and others on a trip to India to explore potential locations April 10, 2009 for educational programming. “Duke, like many universities in the United Feb. 20, 2009 “Military Culture and the States recognizes that if we want to succeed globally,” Brodhead said, “we must “The Fear Factor,” Lt. Col. Greg Practices of War," Isabel Hull, be in India.” Gaddis, UNC-Chapel Hill. professor of history, Cornell Feb. 26, 2009 University. Von Der Heyden Lecture and Closing the Doors on Gitmo keynote address for the TISS annual conference, Professor By DAVID H. SCHANZER

President Bush said last year that “it should be a goal of the nation to shut down Guantanamo,” but it now appears this goal will be unfulfilled when he leaves office. His decision not to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay for aliens accused of being terror - ists is regrettable. Bush’s decision represents a victory for Vice President Cheney, who, according to reports, believes that keeping the prison open under a new adminis - tration would validate Bush’s detention policies. Read the entire But there is no redeeming the detention and prose - commentary cution system at Guantanam o— a system that has on the Sanford produced only two convictions in seven years, has Institute W eb site. been rebuked by the Supreme Court three times, and has caused four military prosecutors to step down in disgust. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has properly urged that this symbol of injustice be shut down “this afternoon.” President Barack Obama will need different strategies for dealing with the three categories of detainees at Guantanamo. Where sufficient evi - dence exists that a detainee has committed a war crime, court martial Professor of PPS Bruce Jentleson, left, talks with Mikhail proceedings should begin immediately. Those charged under this system Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of the and ultimately convicted can be detained in military jails inside the Soviet Union, at a conference in Venice, Italy, Oct. 12-13, 2008, United States.… called “The Post-Unipolar World: What Does It Look Like?” Schanzer, a visiting professor of PPS, directs the Triangle Center on Terrorism The event was sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation and the and Homeland Security. This commentary was published Oct. 28, 2008 in the Russian International Institute of Global Development. Jentleson Philadelphia Inquirer, the Raleigh News and Observer, and the Atlanta gave a presentation titled “U.S. Perspective: Consensual Journal-Constitution. Internationalism and Beyond.”

8 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Health & Social Policy Rogerson Explores Nations’ Varied Technology Policies

By Jackie Ogburn handle digital and information policy. addressing the divide through government- Brazil, a social democracy, is a leader in sponsored programs. Community Tech nol - he “digital divide” is the gap between technology adoption in South America. Two ogy Centers developed by the Clinton ad - people who have easy access to digital programs, Computers for All and Casas Brazil, min istration lost funding in 2005. The E-rate T technology and those who don’t. Like have funded computer purchases and con - program provided discounted technology to technology itself, the digital divide is chang - struction of public buildings to house com - schools, but that funding has also been cut in ing rapidly, says Lecturer in PPS Ken puters, thus providing access for lower and recent years. Still, the United States has a Rogerson, who studies the U.S. and interna - middle income citizens. high level of connectivity, as nearly two- tional policies being created to address the Estonia, an emerging democracy and for - thirds of its citizens are Inter net users. issue. For instance, in 1995, there was a clear mer Soviet bloc nation, also has a public-access Rogerson and Milton conclude that while gender divide in use of digital technologies in program. It set up 500 public computer centers democracies may have similar goals, they the United States. The gender dif - U “understand the same technologies N I ference has since disappeared for V in very different ways.” While each E R

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that signal or influence the accumulation of Owen Heads Consortium • Jenni Owen, Social Policy Briefs human capital. The research will have policy director of policy initiatives at the Center for Relation of Test Scores to Success implications for high school graduation and Child and Family Policy, will direct the post-secondary education rates, labor market Consortium for University-based Child Policy in Life • A team of Sanford researchers won participation, early child bearing, and delin - Centers, a forum which fosters scientific col - a $692,514 grant from the Smith Richardson quency and criminal activity patterns. laboration around child and family policy Foundation for a project entitled Beyond Test Other faculty involved in the project issues, cross-disciplinary undergraduate and Scores: Schooling and Life-Course Outcomes in include Elizabeth Ananat, Philip J. Cook, graduate training, and effective translation Early Adulthood. Charles Clotfelter, the Z. William Darity, Jr., Kenneth A. Dodge, Anna between research, practice and policy issues. Smith Reynolds Professor of PPS, will serve as Gassman-Pines, Christina M. Gibson-Davis, Consortium members include 27 colleges and the principal investigator. Helen F. Ladd, Clara Muschkin, Seth universities. The project will examine the connection Sanders, and Jacob L. Vigdor. The project is between test scores and important outcomes set to run through December 2010.

Winter 2009 9 D.C. Schools Chancellor Rhee Makes Children’s Needs the Priority in Sweeping Reform Effort Health Policy Briefs U N

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Y ingredients, responses to fluctuating ence of about 300 students, facul - demand, and surge capacity after ty, and local residents at the natural disaster or civil unrest. Sanford Insti tute about her pro - posals to better compensate The project team includes Gary teachers who are willing to give Gereffi from Duke’s Center on Globali- up the protections of tenure. zation, Governance & Competitiveness Rhee said the needs of students, and faculty from UNC’s schools of not adults in the system, are the business and public health. Students driving force in her controversial from both universitie s— including decisions. “It’s our kids who have Kevin Hwang, Duke PPS senio r— are no due pro cess,” she said. “We involved in the project. Professor of still allow the color of a child’s the Practice Anthony So and Corrina skin and their zip code to dictate Moucheraud Vickery, director and the quality of their education and that’s the biggest social injustice imaginable.” The lecture was program coordinator of PGHTA, re - sponsored by the Office of Duke University President Richard Brodhead and the Institute. spectively, are overseeing the project. Global Health • Subhrendu K. A New Proposal for Teacher Pay Pattanayak, associate professor of PPS, has joined the Duke Global Health Institute. He will teach a new global By Jackie Ogburn The salary curve for teachers would then more closely mirror that of other professions. environmental health course in the fall eacher pay is one Doctors and lawyers reap the full rewards of of 2009, with a social science focus on of the many burn - competence in their profession within 10 years behaviors and choices. “Part of the rea - T ing issues in edu - of entrance. Teachers must wait three times son for my move to Duke was to build a cational reform. Assist - that long, even though evidence suggests that program on global environmental ant Professor of PPS and they become fully competent in their profes - health, particularly given the threats Economics Jacob Vigdor sion just as quickly, Vigdor points out. from climate change,” he said. adds a log to that fire in Vigdor calls this new pay structure an Publicly Funded Research Duke an article published in “evidence-based salary schedule,” one that • researchers recommend caution in the Fall 2008 issue of Education Next. He would reward the early gains in effectiveness argues that the current system pays too much and decrease the raises for earning additional using U.S. intellectual property models for older teachers with additional degrees credentials. Currently in North Carolina, in developing nations in an Oct. 28, and not enough to younger ones. teachers who earn National Board for Pro - 2008 publication in PLoS Biology, “Is Drawing on several studies about teacher fessional Teaching Standards certification Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Coun - effectiveness, Vigdor points out that major receive a 12 percent salary increase and a 10 tries? Lessons from the US Experience.” gains in effectiveness occur in the first six percent increase for earning a master’s degree. The authors were Anthony D. So, years of a teacher’s career, but the major salary Cutting those raises to 5 percent would free up Bhaven N. Sampat, Arti K. Rai, Robert increases come toward the end of a teacher’s money for early career increases. Cook-Deegan, Jerome H. Reichman, career in their mid-50s. Salary increases are He acknowledges that the switch would Robert Weissman and Amy Kapczynski. awarded when teachers earn additional cre - not be painless. Experienced teachers would The authors argue that the econom - dentials, such as masters’ degrees, in spite of see a decline in future earnings and institu - ic benefits of the Bayh-Dole Act in the the low correlation between those credentials tions that provide teacher credentials would United States have been overstated and teacher effectiveness. see a decline in their business. and sometimes misrepresented. As “Money currently spent on rewarding A majority of new teachers leave the pro - countries from China to South Africa teachers for valueless credentials could be fession within five years, just when they are consider legislation modeled on the used to increase starting salaries, a policy goal making the biggest gains in effectiveness. An act, the authors recommend much clos - espoused by nearly all interested parties, from evidence-based salary schedule would “encour - er attention to protection of the public education reformers to teachers unions,” age highly qualified teachers to enter the pro - interest in publicly funded research. Vigdor wrote. “Shifting teachers’ lifetime com - fession and stay there,” Vigdor said. pensation toward the beginning of their The article, “Scrap the Sacrosanct Salary careers would make the profession more Schedule,” appeared in Volume 8, No. 4 of attractive to highly qualified college students.” Education Next.

10 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Series of Negative Experiences Can Duke Offers Degree Lead to Teen Violence, Study Shows in Global Health Applications are being accepted for a new Master of Science in Global Health degree By Jana Alexander leads them to engage in acts of violence. The developmental path toward violent program beginning in the fall of 2009. The dverse experi- outcomes was largely the same for boys and new program, offered through the Duke enc es early in life girls, said Dodge, the lead author of the study. University Graduate School and administered A can lead to minor Dodge and his colleagues in the Conduct by the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), childhood behavior prob - Problems Prevention Research Group also will draw upon the expertise of faculty in all lems, which can grow found that the cascade could be traced back of Duke’s graduate and professional schools. into serious acts of teen to children born with biological risks or into “Understanding how to reduce health dis - violence, according to economically disadvantaged environments, parities requires an interdisciplinary per - new research by a group both of which make consistent parenting a spective, yet the study of health in academic led by Ken Dodge, professor of PPS and challenge. They determined biological risk by institutions is traditionally confined within director of the Center for Child and Family assessing the temperaments of the children in disciplinary boundaries,” said DGHI Director Policy. This “cascading effect” of repeated infancy, based on mothers’ reports; those at Michael Merson. negative incidents and behaviors is the focus risk were irritable, easily startled and difficult “We are proud to be one of the first univer - of an article titled “Testing an Idealized to calm. These children are more likely to sities in the country to offer a Master of Science Dynamic Cascade Model of the Develop - exhibit minor social and cognitive problems in Global Health that will prepare health pro - ment of Serious Violence in Adolescence” in upon entering school. From there, the behav - fessionals, policy makers, researchers and oth - the November/December 2008 edition of ior problems begin to “cascade.” ers to approach global health from many per - the journal Child Development. “The findings indicate that these trajecto - spectives.” Dodge’s research team measured how vio - ries are not inevitable, but can be deflected at The program will include instruction in lent behavior develops across the life span, each subsequent era in development, through disease causation and prevention, global from early childhood through adolescence. interactions with peers, school, and parents environmental health, global health policy The researchers tracked 754 children for 12 along the way,” Dodge said. and management, and population sciences. years in 27 schools in four areas of the United The research was supported by the It will involve faculty from Arts & Sciences States. They documented that children with National Institute for Mental Health, with a social and academic problems in elementary grant for the Multi-site Prevention of and the schools of medicine, nursing, environ - school are more likely to have parents who Adolescent Conduct Problems (Fast Track) ment, business, divinity, engineering and law, withdraw from them over time. That opens the study, and by the National Institute on Drug as well as from the Terry Sanford Institute of door for them to make friends with adolescents Abuse. Both grants are managed by the Public Policy. Details available online at exhibiting deviant behaviors and, ultimately, Center for Child and Family Policy. globalhealth.duke.edu Grants Focus on Drug Abuse Prevention, Mental Health

he Center for Child and Family Policy The TPRC, which started with a NIDA implemented over the next six years. (CCFP) has secured two new major grant, is a collaboration among the CCFP, The Alamance Alliance is a direct out - T grants: one for developing new ap - Duke’s Department of Psychology and Neuro - growth of partnerships that developed be - proaches to substance use prevention among science and the Duke Social Science Research tween the child welfare system, CCFP staff adolescents and one to develop mental Institute. With this new grant, TPRC antici - and other child-serving agencies in Alamance health services for young children and their pates additional collaborations with the County. Joel Rosch, CCFP senior research families in collaboration with the Alamance Institute for Brain Sciences, the Institute for scholar and policy liaison, and other CCFP Department of Social Services. Genome Sciences & Policy and the Global staff worked closely with Susan Osborne, The National Institute on Drug Abuse Health Institute. director of Alamance County DSS, to design (NIDA) awarded CCFP a grant of more CCFP collaborated with two other re - the project. than $6 million over five years. With this search centers to help the Alamance County It will develop evidence-based trauma new funding, the Duke Transdisciplinary Department of Social Services secure a $7 services for children and families, train local Prevention Research Center (TPRC), part million federal grant from the U.S. Depart - providers to deliver those services and devel - of the CCFP, will support scholars in trans - ment of Health and Human Services Sub - op methods for measuring the impact of the lating their knowledge about regulatory stance Abuse and Mental Health Services project. Christina Christopoulos, CCFP re- processes and peer influences into programs Administration (SAMHSA). The grant will search scientist, and Nicole Lawrence, CCFP to prevent substance use and related prob - fund a project to improve outcomes for chil - research coordinator, will lead the project lems in adolescents. Principal investigators dren ages birth to five with serious mental evaluation. In addition to the Duke centers, are Philip Costanzo, professor of psychology health needs and their families. CCFP, the Alamance Alliance involves the Alamance and associate director of the CCFP, and Center for Child and Family Health and the Partnership for Children, Alamance County Kenneth Dodge, the William McDougall National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Health Department and the Alamance-Cas - Professor of PPS and CCFP director. all have a role in the project, which will be well-Rockingham Local Management Entity.

Winter 2009 11 2El0ect0ion8 s More than 9,000 Cast Early Votes 0n Campus Associate Professor of PPS and History Gunther Peck, left, worked with the Durham County Board of Elections and Duke offi - cials to set up Duke’s first on-cam - pus early voting polling site on campus. The site opened on Oct. 16 in the Old Trinity Room in the West Union Building. Peck was the first of 9,361 people to vote at the site . Peck said 89.4 percent of freshmen Demo cratic and Independent voters turned out, Y

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By Jackie Ogburn losing campaign. Bleyer, an Emmy Award- Kal, cartoonist for The Economist magazine winning writer who also contributes to the and previously for The Baltimore Sun, re marked fter the exhilaration and ex haustion Hufﬁngton Post and National Public Radio, that “the maturity of a democracy is measured of election week, four satirists showed is responsible for many of the gags Stewart by the amount of satire it can endure.” A the Sanford communi ty the other im- executes on the popular news satire show. Responding to a question from the audi - port ant role politicians play: being the butt of Among the clips he showed of his work was a ence, Kal said he doesn’t expect his work to the joke. The panel presentation on Nov. 11, takeoff on the “celebrity translator” insur - change people’s minds, but “Laughing at Power: Satire in American ance ads, where rock legend Little Richard to be come part of Poli tics,” featured cartoonists Kevin “Kal” served as interpreter of remarks by Presi - their “mental furni - Kallaugher and Dwane Powell, as well as dent Bush. Bleyer said he “takes politics ture.” Powell coun - Kevin Bleyer and Adam Chodikoff, staff mem - seriously by making light of it.” tered that an edito - bers of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Dubbed an “investigative hu - rial cartoonist had Professor of PPS James Hamilton, direc - mor ist” by The Washington changed his mind; tor of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media Post, Chodikoff, a ’93 George Fisher of the and Democracy, moderated the panel. Duke political sci - Arkansas Gazette Powell, cartoonist for the Raleigh News & ence alum, mines made him real - Observer since 1975, led off with the observa - archives for text, ize segregation tion that he is a member of a dying breed, as video and audio was bad and the number of working political cartoonists clips that can por - gave him a has dwindled from 270 to 70. He showed a tray politicians in a comical light. Chodikoff social aware ness. Chodikoff joked that he selection of cartoons, including several with is the source of the paired clips of people con - hoped his work “changed the minds of the N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms, and confessed he ﬁrst tra dicting themselves, such as Vice President girls who dumped me.” thought Helms would be a one-term wonder. Cheney saying polls are meaningless and then None of the satirists thought there would Bleyer of “The Daily Show” opened with, justifying policy by citing polls. He stressed the be any lack of material during the new ad - “Greetings, godless North Caroli ni ans,” a ref - importance of having the facts correct, be - ministration. As Bleyer said, “We’re willing to erence to the infamous ad by Sen. Libby Dole ’s cause “without credibility, the jokes lose power.” make fun of anyone.”

12 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Duke Students Gather at Sanford to Witness Historic Election J O N

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N R nation’s ﬁrst African American president, Barack Obama. Five large-screen televi - sions aired election coverage from Fox TV, MSNBC, CNN and other networks, offer - ing a variety of political perspectives. Students posed for photos with life-size cutouts of the candidates and surfed Inter - net sites on laptops for details on the races. When it became clear that Obama had gar - nered the electoral votes needed to win, most in the crowd erupted in cheers and shouts. Jason Pate, president of the Duke Public Policy Majors Union, told The Duke Chronicle that attendance mirrored the Duke student population, which overwhelm - ingly supported the Democratic nominee. The event was sponsored by the Duke University Union, the Graduate and Profes - sional School Council, and the Public Policy Majors Union. Duke freshman Alison Kibbe, center, tracks the races with friends. Kibbe organized East Campus in residence halls and registered voters throughout the fall. Below, left, Edwin Coleman, Erin Good and friends rejoice as the race is called for Barack Obama. J Y O O N R

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Political cartoonist Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher worked on this sculpture called “Race 2008” as an artist in residence at the Sanford Institute during the week of Nov. 11. Kal began with a wire armature on Monday. Throughout the week, he layered and molded clay into the figure of President-elect Barack Obama bursting through a wall and talked with passers-by as he worked. He intends to cast the finished piece in metal. Kal also spoke to classes, gave a lunch- time talk to staff about his work as a satirist and anchored the panel discus - sion, “Laughing at Power: Satire in American Politics.”

Winter 2009 13 2El0ect0ion8 s

Each fall, PPS students in the undergraduate honors seminar taught by Gender and Framing in Assistant Profes sor of PPS Judith Kelley conduct original research and write Political Campaign Ads a thesis. Two projects relevant to the elections are described here.

y November, most people felt they had known. There was a big transformation by and she was able to sway some voters with watched hundreds of television elec - election day,” Fahrbach said. “It was incredi - the information about Hagen’s church work. B tions ads, but Samantha Fahrbach bly exciting to see all our work pay off.” Hagen went on to win the seat. (PPS ’09) knows for sure she did. She sat Hagen’s run against incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Fahrbach was drafting her thesis during through 700 campaign ads during a week at Dole attracted national attention, especially election week and that work also revealed a the archives at University of Oklahoma last for Dole’s 11th-hour attack ad attempting to few surprises. Contrary to her hypothesis, she summer. The marathon viewing was her pri - link Hagen with an atheist group. found there were few differences in the ad

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signaling in campaign ads between men Y had to mention the 2008 campaign, and women, whether women play more even though she didn’t include this into stereotypes and ‘run as women’ and election’s ads in her data. Fahrbach if there were changes over time.” noted that Obama emphasized inclu - Fahrbach focused on advertisements siveness, modesty and hope, traits that from campaigns for U.S. congressional she coded as “feminine,” while Hillary seats from 1992 through 2006. She Clinton highlighted toughness, experi - coded each ad for feminine, masculine and “People in the campaign were furious at ence and pragmatism, qualities on her list of neutral traits in both word use and visual that ad,” said Fahrbach. The campaign re - “masculine” traits, but it was the candidate imagery and then analyzed the data. sponded not only with a rebuttal ad, but that used the more feminine approach that In addition to working on her honors with literature on Hagen’s faith and church won. “Men campaigning against women is project, Fahrbach spent the fall as an intern involvement for door-to-door distribution. still an issue, and still touchy,” said Fahrbach with the senatorial campaign of Kay Hagan . While manning the phone bank, Fahrbach “but I think I’m helping to ask the right “In September, Hagan was still so un - found that Dole’s ad did affect some voters, questions.”

Citizens of Faith and the Theory of Public Reason

ylie Harrell (PPS ’09 ) without bringing in their religious convictions. She concluded that if such groups can’t was intrigued, yet skep - “I wanted to see if the theory could be engage in public reason, then that throws K tical, about the “theory put into practice,” she said, or whether it doubt on the feasibility of reaching the ideal of public reason” —the idea might be an unattainable ideal. of public reason in American political life. that policy arguments should The survey asked participants to provide That ideal was not on display in the recent be limited to those based on reasons for their positions on the contentious election, she noted. reasoning common to all per - topics of abortion and gay marriage. She “Clearly, there was a lot of religious rhet - sons in a society, without resorting to reli - asked the leaders of a selection of congrega - oric being used, which politicians feel is nec - gious justifications. So it seemed like an tions in Durham and Harrell’s hometown of essary to be elected,” said Harrell. She found interesting topic for her honor’s thesis. Austin, Texas, to invite their members to take the perspective of the thesis seminar instruc - “As a conservative on a largely liberal her online survey. It included both multiple- tor, Judith Kelley, particularly interesting. campus, it’s been personally challenging. I choice and free-response questions. Kelley noted that both candidates were pro - have to really think through my positions in The resulting data, while not from a rep - fessed Christians, just like all previous U.S. order to present them to others in terms they resentative sample, provided support for presidents, but that a candidate’s religious will understand and accept as valid. I’ve had Harrell’s hypothesis that highly religious affiliation is never brought up in her native to defend my positions and sharpen my argu - people, especially evangelical and born- Denmark. ments in ways that many other students again Christians, would not be able to offer After graduation, Harrell plans to attend haven’t.” public reasons for their stances on abortion law school, and later run for elective office Harrell worked with faculty advisor Evan and gay marriage. There was also a high cor - back in Texas, perhaps for the judiciary. “I Charney, assistant professor of PPS, to de - relation between those who identified as think I’ll be able to better communicate my velop a survey to probe whether American cit - Republicans and/or conservatives and lack positions to people because of my Duke izens of faith can provide reasons for policy of public reason offered for opinions. experience,” she said.

14 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus 2El0ect0ion8 s Feb. 4: Connect2Politics: Beyond the Election Newark, N.J. Mayor Booker By Leslie Grifﬁth

In 1998, when Cory outh turnout was at its highest in de- Booker moved in, Brick cades for the November election, but Towers was the most Ythe Hart Leadership Program wants stu - notorious public housing project in Newark, dents to see political engagement as more than N.J., crime-ridden and crumbling. From a one-da y— or one-perso n— phenomenon. there, he launched his crusade to clean up To boost interest in politics and sustain Newark, first as a community organizer, then political debate on campus after Nov. 4, HLP city councilman and now as mayor. launched Connect2Politics, to bring promi - Booker will speak about “The Next Gen er- nent young political leaders to campus. The at ion of Political Leadership” at the Sanford initiative kicked off in October with a docu - Institute on Feb. 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the Fleish - mentary screening and a debate. man Commons as part of Hart Leadership’s “We were concerned that there was no Connect2Politics Initiative. The event is free coordinated effort to promote political en - and open to the public. gagement on campu s— there were some Senior PPS major Aisha Turner attended a din - Booker has made significant changes efforts, but not enough,” HLP Assistant ner with Harold Ford Jr., left, chairman of the since being elected mayor in 2006. Newark Director David Gastwirth said. “We needed Democratic Leadership Council, and Michael has seen a 40 percent decease in murders efforts in the classroom, speakers, a university Steele, chairman of GOPAC, in the Mary Lou and shootings, bucking the upward trend commitment.” Williams Center for Black Culture on Oct. 22. among major cities. Working with local foun - Connect2Politics’ first major event was The dinner preceded the Ford/Steele debate spon - dations, Booker created a $20 million fund to an Oct. 22 debate between Harold Ford, Jr. sored by Hart Leadership Program, the Black support charter schools and a Brick City and Michael Steele, two rising leaders and Student Alliance (BSA) and the Duke Univer - scholarship fund. sity Union. Turner, who interns in Sanford’s The city has upgraded recreation facili - longtime friends on opposite sides of the par - Communications Office, attended the dinner as ties and pools and passed legislation man - tisan divide. Their jocular but passionate a member of the BSA executive committee. dating a “prevailing wage” for companies debate in Page Auditorium was intended to contracting with the city. Booker created the boost excitement and discussion on campus new position of Inspector General to investi - in the final days before the election. setting throughout the spring semester. gate corruption in city agencies. Gastwirth and HLP Director Alma “We want to create an even more robust Known for rhetorical flourishes as grand Blount also are recruiting students for a political culture here at Duke,” Blount said of as his ambitions, Booker said on MSNBC, small learning community designed to con - the initiative. “I’ve found that when you give “I want to luxuriate in the racial delicious - nect undergraduates with speakers, faculty students a way to learn and a skill set for ness of our country. I mean, that’s what members and each other in an informal engaging in great debate they just take to it.” makes America great. We are a nation that celebrates racial diversity. We’re not Norway. We’re not South Korea. We are the United Kaufman named to replace Biden in Senate States of America. The story of America is bringing such differences together to mani - ed Kaufman, visiting lecturer in PPS, office,” Kaufman said. “I will do this job to fest a united set of ideals, not a united cul - has been appointed to Vice-President the best of my ability to serve the people of ture, not a united language, not a united T elect Joe Biden ’s seat in the U.S. Delaware.” religion, but a united set of ideals.” Senate. The selection was announced by Since 1991, Kaufman has been a visiting Delaware Governor Ruth lecturer in PPS, a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Ann Miner on Monday, the Law school, and also taught in the Fuqua Other Connect2Politics Speakers Nov. 24. School of Business, regularly teaching classes Feb. 1 • Mayor Luke Ravensthal of Kaufman (BSME ’60) on Congress: Government, Business, and the Pittsburgh, Pa. served as Senator Biden’s Global Economy. Feb. 26 • Andrew Gillum, City Commission - chief of staff for 19 years, In addition to teaching at Duke, Kaufman er, Tallahassee, Fla., and executive director was his senior advisor is president of a political management and of the Young Elected Officials Network. during the presidential consulting firm, Public Strategies, and is a TBA • Thomas Bates, executive director of campaign, and most recently was co-chair of charter member of the Broadcasting Board of Democrats Work. Biden’s transition team. Governors, a federal agency responsible for TBA • Raj Goyle, member of the Kansas Kaufman will serve for two years and then all US government and government spon - House of Representatives, (PPS’ 97). step down in 2010, when Delaware will hold sored non-military international broadcast - (See his Alumnus Profile, page 21.) a special election to elect a senator for the ing, such as the Voice of America, Radio and Speakers for March and April events are remaining four years of the term. “I do not The Middle East Broadcasting Network. not yet confirmed. think that Delaware’s appointed senator should spend the next two years running for

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Jay Hamilton, center, professor of PPS and economics, moderates a panel discussion among national political journalists during the annual Zeidman Colloquium at the Sanford Institute on Nov. 15, 2008. Journalists, from left, Mark Shields (PBS), Garrett Graff (The Washingtonian) , Ruth Marcus (Washington Post) , and Jeff Zeleny (New York Times) evaluated media coverage of the 2008 presidential election.

Dewitt Wallace (continued from page 1) and distribute news. ence of existing organizations and explore the A pioneering example, funded by the legal, financial and ethical hurdles to succeed - Over the next five years, DWC intends to Knight Foundation, is everyblock.com, which ing as a news nonprofit. focus its research and activities on stimulating mines public data sets, daily media reports, DWC also proposes new research into debate about, and developing interdiscipli - government proceedings and local Internet other innovative business models for news nary solutions to, these fundamental market conversations in order to generate neighbor - organizations. If news organizations could sell failures. DWC’s activities will: hood-specific information, such as crime information about their readers’ online behav - •Advance development of the new field of reports or restaurant reviews. ior to advertisers seeking increasingly targeted computational journalism. “The idea is to use technology to lower the audiences, they might solve one of their major cost of doing journalism,” Hamilton says. If problems: an inability to capture revenue in •Examine the potential of nonprofit media algorithms can be used to discern patterns in return for providing online content. ownership and nonprofit or foundation data (such as crime waves), journalists can fol - Your buying pattern s— recorded each time subsidies for creation and distribution of low up and investigate causes of the patterns. you use your grocery store member car d— information. As a progression from this, Hamilton says, in already are being used to target you for partic - •Probe new ways of adding monetary value to the near future, algorithms may also be used to ular sales promotions. However, privacy con - hard news content online. automate the writing of some types of news cerns currently limit efforts to monetize online •Examine the supply and effects of partisan stories based on data. news content. New research would examine political information on voter behavior in In partnership with colleagues at UNC, how these concerns could be allayed, or what the Internet age. Stanford, the University of Montana, the it would take for consumers to see the loss of University of Wisconsin and The Renaissance privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for acquiring •Identify barriers to information creation and Computing Institute, Hamilton also has applied information. consumption by people with low incomes. for grant funding to launch a new Center for During a 2007-08 sabbatical year at Goals are to probe how residents of low Computational Journalism. Stanford, Hamilton wrote a book with co- income communities get information, how “I’m excited about the potential interac - author Scott de Marchi, slated for publication their decisions are affected by the informa- tions with other Duke programs, such as statis - this fall. The book applies principles for pre - tion they can access, and how their choices tics, computer science and information dicting purchasing behavior based on person - in terms of payday lending, mortgages, science,” he noted. ality traits to other decisions, such as voting, education and health care could change Hamilton also is seeking a practicing jour - choice of marriage partner and driving behavior. with better information access. nalist focused on the future of journalism for “Our theory is that if I know how you make Hamilton’s strategies for prompting innova - the Eugene C. Patterson Chair, currently occu - choices in the private sector, such as your tion in these areas include new faculty hires, pied by Professor of the Practice Susan Tifft. product loyalty, I can use that information to conferences, research grants and new courses. Her 10-year appointment to the position will predict your voting or political behavior.” New faculty will be selected for DWC’s two conclude at the end of this academic year. Hamilton recognizes that his goals for DWC endowed professorships by next fall. Hamilton To stimulate inquiry into nonprofit owner - are ambitious. In fact, he has calculated his is seeking to fill the Knight Chair, from which ship and subsidy of news, Hamilton is planning odds of winning the NSF computational jour - William Raspberry retired last June, with a a late-spring conference here at Duke for aca - nalism grant at 4 percent. Nevertheless, he’s journalist who will lead an effort to develop demics, journalists, and philanthropists. enjoying the challenge. the new field of computational journalism. Several news organizations, such as NPR and “We want to generate new ideas and give As a natural progression from the data-driven the St. Petersburg Times, operate as nonprofits news organizations a road map for the future. approaches used by investigative reporters, or are owned by nonprofits, and foundations This really would be putting knowledge in the the new field uses technological tools and arti - already subsidize many genres of news report - service of society.” ficial intelligence to access, analyze, aggregate ing. The conference will draw on the experi -

16 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Tsunami (continued from page 1) the variation associated with the degree of Alum’s Work damage to the respondent’s original commu - 39,500 individuals from a 2004 survey who nity. It also assesses the correlation of post- Aids Children were living in nearly 600 villages in Aceh traumatic stress reactivity (PTSR) to pre- After giving $12 million in and North Sumatr a— some with heavy disaster characteristics. grants to groups in 69 damage from the tsunami, and others rela - The research showed PTSR scores were nations, the Washington, tively untouched. highest among those in the most heavily D.C.-based Global Fund The team spent five months designing damaged areas, and that age and gender for Children has become data collection protocols, lining up funding, were significant predictors of PTSR, with a significant force for and recruiting and training interviewers. By women having higher scores than men. change. But its beginnings were quite humble . May 2005, the researchers were in the field Socioeconomic status before the tsunami “I started GFC in the Old Chemistry Build- collecting data as part of the Study of the was largely unrelated to the intensity of reac - ing,” the Sanford’s Institute’s former home, Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR). tions in the 18 months afterward. founder and President Maya Ajmera (MPP The survey has now been conducted four Frankenberg is excited about the policy ’93) said during an Oct. 30 talk at the Insti tute. times since the disaster. Data from the proj - implications of STAR. She says the data can “I had a desk, a chair and a telephone. I ect are being used to assess the impact of the help measure the type and value of assis - knew nothing about running a nonprofit.” tragedy on survival, health and well-being tance and how to go about rebuilding com - However, she did know about pursuing and to evaluate the impact of the assistance munities after disasters. what she calls “big, hairy, audacious goals.” that flowed in afterwards. “The degree of resilience of the people is Through connections made through Sanford “The project will fundamentally change inspirational,” she said. When the tsunami faculty and the Duke Center for International the data available on disasters,” said Frank - hit, Aceh was a conflict zone. Nine months Development, Ajmera secured a start-up en berg. Most studies of groups affected by afterward, a peace deal was reached between grant to pursue her vision: To provide mod - disasters are not based on a sample that rep - separatists and the Indonesian government est grants to small, grassroots organizations resents the pre-disaster population, nor do and the focus had turned toward recovery. with strong leaders and innovative ideas for they interview respondents more than once. Within two years, reconstruction was well helping children. The STAR team has conducted yearly under way in many coastal communities. Initially she planned to finance her phil - follow-up surveys and will continue to the 5- Frankenberg points to amazing changes, anthropic mission by publishing children’s year mark, with the possibility of returning such as the story of Irwandi Yusuf. A sepa - books. After failing to win support from to the field eight or 10 years after the disas - ratist movement operative, he was a prisoner agents or publishers for her first project, she ter. The data contain information at the when the tsunami hit, destroying the prison found a partner and self-published Children individual, household and community level. and allowing him to escape. In February from Australia to Zimbabwe in 1996. “My The STAR team was able to determine 2007, he became the first directly elected inexperience was my greatest asset,” she the survival status of 96 percent of respon - governor of Aceh province. recalled. dents to the original 2004 survey and has Several other Duke researchers are also Since then GFC has published 21 chil - collected extensive information about re - involved with STAR. In November, Frank en - dren’s books and expanded its media divi - con struction efforts. An additional innova - berg returned to Indonesia with programmer sion to documentary photography and films tion is the use of satellite imagery of the area Peter Katz from the department of econom- that highlight issues affecting children. Funds generated help support GFC’s grantees, who to create measures of the physical devasta - ics and post-doctoral fellow Clark Gray . combat child labor and sexual exploitation, tion caused by the tsunami. Public policy PhD student Ava Cas is co- support AIDS orphans, and provide health Frankenberg and several team members authoring a paper with Frankenberg drawing care and educational opportunities. published the first paper drawing on the from the project. The work is a far cry from what Ajmera research in the September 2008 American STAR is funded by grants from the World imagined she’d do. The daughter of Indian Journal of Public Health: “Mental Health in Bank, the National Institute of Health and immigrants whose father was an ECU physics Sumatra After the Tsunami.” Based on inter - the National Science Foundation. The team professor, Ajmera started out a scientist. A views with more than 20,500 adult sur - prepares annual reports for the government self-described “typical Asian kid,” she won a vivors, the paper examines the course of of Indonesia and ultimately will place the Westinghouse Award and intended to make their reactions to the disaster over time and data in the public domain. her parents very proud by going to medical school. Travel in rural Southeast Asia on a Satellite images Rotary International Graduate Fellowship, show the village along with coursework at Duke, helped of Gleebruk in changed her direction. Aceh province, As GFC has grown, so has Ajmera’s com - Indonesia, in mitment to helping start-ups build capacity April 2004 to improve their communities. (left) and the “Giving big amounts of money to groups week after the does not solve problems; money ends up tsunami (right). not as well spent as it could have been,” she Houses, bridges, said. “Grassroots organizations are under - trees and crops valued and undercapitalized. We (GFC) bet were swept on people.” away. Ajmera was the first Sanford Institute Alumni Speaker.

Winter 2009 17 Faculty News

Marc Bellemare, assistant professor of PPS and economics, gave three talks on his paper “Household Attitudes to Price Risk: Evidence Kudos Sanford Institute faculty a series of working groups and publications from Rural Ethiopia” on Sept. 26, 2008, at NC members Philip J. Cook, engaging scholars, practitioners and others State University, Oct. 9 at Michigan State University, and Oct. 10 at Western Michigan Clara Muschkin, and on key issues that present major strategic chal - University. Jacob Vigdor earned the lenges to the United States and the interna - 2008 Raymond Vernon tional community; and “Next Generation: Robert M. Cook-Deegan, research professor of Memorial Prize for best Policy Relevant Scholars,” a plan to train and PPS, has received an award from the University article published in the mentor a cohort of graduate students in politi - of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for a project enti - Journal of Policy Analysis cal science, law, public policy and related tled “Core I: Policy, Ethics and Law Core.” and Management (JPAM). disciplines whose work is oriented towards Total funding will be $274,214 over 11 months. Muschkin Cook-Deegan, director of the Center for Genome Co-author Robert policy-relevant scholarship. Ethics, Law and Policy, presented a talk Sept. 29 MacCoun, a professor at the Goldman School on the development and intellectual property of Public Policy at the University of California, Ambassador James issues of human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines Berkeley, also shared the honor. Joseph, professor of the at a Duke conference. The authors were recognized for the article practice of PPS, was awarded the John Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of PPS Charles titled “Should Sixth Grade be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Config ur - Gardner Prize for Social Clotfelter organized and chaired a conference Entrepreneurship at the sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic a tion and Student Behavior.” The Vernon Prize Research titled, “American Universities in a is awarded annually by the Association for first Encore Career Global Market” Oct. 2-4, 2008, in Woodstock, Public Policy Analysis and Management Summit at Stanford Vt. He is the editor of a book of the conference (APPAM) and includes a $1,000 cash prize and University, Dec. 5-8 in Palo papers to be published by University of Chicago recognition at both APPAM’s fall conference Alto, Calif. The prize is given by Civic Ventures, Press. and in the next issue of JPAM. Vigdor, along a national think tank on work and social pur - Kenneth A. Dodge, the William McDougall with Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished pose in the second half of life. Professor of PPS, received an award of $67,495 Professor of PPS Helen Ladd and two other Joseph gave the closing speech, “Leader - from the N.C. Department of Health and Human authors, also won the Vernon Prize in 2004. ship in the Second Half of Life,” at the summit. Services for “Evaluation of Improving Child Wel - The prize is named for John Gardner, who fare Outcomes through Systems of Care Grant.” Center for Child and Family Policy research sci - served as secretary of Health, Education and entists Jennifer Lansford and Lisa Berlin, Welfare in the Johnson administration, helped Elizabeth Frankenberg, associate professor of PPS, gave a presentation on “Estimates of the along with center Director Kenneth A. Dodge, launch Medicare, and founded the nonprofit Tsunami’s Impact on Mortality in Indonesia” at the William McDougall Professor of PPS, co- Common Cause. Joseph was honored for his the Population Association of America annual authored a paper that was named Outstand ing lifetime of social service and work in develop - meetings in New Orleans in April 2008 and at the Research Article of 2007 by the journal Child ing new programs in civic engagement and DuPRI Seminar Series at Duke in September. Maltreatment. The article, “Early physical leadership. abuse and later violent delinquency: A pro - Anna Gassman-Pines, assistant professor of PPS, David Schanzer, visiting associate professor of gave a talk at the University of North Carolina’s spective longitudinal study,” appeared in the August 2007 issue. The award was presented at the practice for PPS and director, Triangle Center Psychology Department on Sept 10, 2008 on of Terrorism and Homeland Security, was named “Daily associations between low-income mothers’ the American Professional Society on the nonstandard work schedules and family out - Abuse of Children (APSCA) Colloquium, June director for strategy and outreach of the Insti tute comes.” On Nov. 8, she presented a talk on the 18-21, 2008, in Phoenix, Ariz. The award for Homeland Security Solutions ( www.ihssnc. same research at the Association for Public Policy includes a $1,000 prize courtesy of the journal org ). The new organization, launched with a Analysis and Management Annual Research publisher, Sage Publications Inc. $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Conference in Los Angeles. Homeland Security, is a collaborative effort Research Scientist involving RTI International, Duke University, the Professor of the Practice of PPS Graham Glenday presented a paper titled “The New ‘Old’ Approach Jennifer Lansford of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and to the Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital,” at the Center for Child and the North Carolina Military Foundation. IHSS a conference organized by the John Deutsch Family Policy was pro - will conduct applied social science and technol - Institute for the Study of Economic Policy at moted to associate ogy research relating to homeland security chal - Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada Oct. 2-3, research professor with lenges. Schanzer also serves on the Homeland 2008. With Fernando Fernholz, associate profes - the Social Science Security Presidential Transition Initiative, a joint sor of the practice of PPS, and D.N.S. Dhakal of Research Institute on project of the Center for American Progress and DCID, he conducted a workshop on Project Oct. 1. She will continue Third Way, two D.C.-based think tanks. Appraisal and Risk Management for 30 profes - as a faculty affiliate with CFP. sional staff of the Islamic Development Bank in Jacob Vigdor, associate professor of PPS and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Oct. 11-23. Professor of PPS Bruce Jentleson received a economics, has accepted editorial positions at Kristin Goss, assistant professor of PPS, delivered grant from the Carnegie Corp. of New York, two journals: associate editor at the journal an invited plenary address before the Conference jointly with the UC Berkeley Institute of Economic Inquiry, and co-editor at the on Contemporary European Perspectives on International Studies, for $502,000 over three Berkeley Electronic Journals in Economic Volunteering Sept. 10-12, 2008 at Ersta Skondal years. The grant covers two main components: Analysis and Policy. University College in Stockholm, titled “Altruism “New Era: Statecraft in a Copernican World,” and Ambivalence: How Public Policy Celebrates,

18 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Crozier, J.C., Kenneth A. Dodge, R.G. Developing Countries? Lessons from the U.S. Faculty Publications Fontaine, Jennifer E. Lansford, J.E. Bates, G.S. Experience.” PLoS Biology 6.10 (October 2008): Pettit, & R.W. Levenson. “Social information e262 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060262 . Charney, Evan. “Genes and Ideologies.” processing and cardiac predictors of adolescent Cars, Otto; L.D. Högberg, M. Murray, O. Perspectives on Politics 6 (2008): 299-319. antisocial behavior.” Journal of Abnormal Nordberg, S. Sivaraman, C.S. Lundborg, Psychology 117.2 (2008): 253-267. Charney, Evan. “Politics, Genetics, and ‘Greedy Anthony D. So, and G. Tomson. “Meeting the Reductionism’.” Perspectives on Politics 6 (2008): Frankenberg, Elizabeth, J. Friedman, T. challenge of antibiotic resistance.” BMJ 2008; 337-343. Gillespie, N. Ingwersen, R. Pynoos, I. Rifai, B. 337:a1438 (27 September): 726-728. Sikoki, C. Sumantri, W. Suriastini, and Duncan Clotfelter, Charles T., Elizabeth Glennie, Matlack, J.L. and Jacob L. Vigdor. “Income Thomas. “Mental Health in Sumatra after the Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L.Vigdor, “Would Ine qual ity and Housing Affordability.” Journal of Tsunami.” American Journal of Public Health Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Housing Economics 17.3 (September 2008): 212- 98:9 (2008): 1671-1677. Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in 224. North Carolina.” Journal of Public Economics 92: Frankenberg, Elizabeth, J. Friedman, F. Cutler, D.M., E.L. Glaeser, and Jacob L. Vigdor. 5-6 (2008): 1352-1370. Saadah, B. Sikoki, W. Suriastini, C. Sumantri, “Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the and Duncan Thomas. “Assessing Health and Carpenter, C. and Philip J. 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Hard Sell.” Foreign Policy 169 (Nov/Dec 2008): predicts later attention problems in sexually 43-49. abused children.” Child Abuse and Neglect 32.2 Vigdor, Jacob L. “Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States.” Center for (2008): 261-275. Kelley, Judith. “Assessing the complex evolu - Civic Innovation, Civic Report #53 (May tion of norms: the rise of international election Dodge, Kenneth A. “On the meaning of 2008). Manhattan Institute, New York, N.Y. monitoring.” International Organization 62.2 meaning when being mean: Commentary on (April 2008): 221-255. Berkowitz’s ‘On the consideration of automatic Vigdor, Jacob L. “Scrap the Sa crosanct Salary Schedule.” Education Next 8.4 (Fall 2008): as well as controlled psychological processes in Kelley, Judith and Curt Bradley. “The Concept 37-42. aggression’.” Aggressive Behavior 34.2 (2008): of International Delegation.” Law and Contem - 133-5. porary Problems 71.1 (Winter 2008): 1-36. Fontaine, R.G., Chongming Yang, Kenneth A. 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Pettit. “Early physical abuse and later violent Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard, Graham, John D., Jonathan B. Wiener. delinquency: A prospective longitudinal study.” Routledge Communications, 2008, pp. 415-423. “Empirical Evidence for Risk-Risk Tradeoffs: Child Maltreatment 12:3 (2007): 233-245. A Rejoinder to Hansen and Tickner.” Journal of Barnett, Brooke and Laura Roselle. “Patriotism Risk Research 11.5 (2008): 485-490. Fite, J.E., J.E. Bates, A. Holtzworth-Munroe, in the News: ‘Rally Round the Flag.’” Electronic Kenneth A. Dodge, S.Y. Nay & G.S. Pettit. News 2.1 (2008): 1-21. Graham, John D., Jonathan B. Wiener. “Social information processing mediates the “The Precautionary Principle and Risk-Risk So, Anthony, B.N. Sampat, A.K. Rai, Robert intergenerational transmission of aggressiveness Tradeoffs: A Comment.” Journal of Risk Research Cook-Deegan, J.H. Reichman, R.Weissman in romantic relationships.” Journal of Family 11.5 (2008): 465-474. 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Channels and Constrains America ’s Benevolent Professor of PPS Bruce Jentleson is serving as a Ambassador James A. Joseph, professor of the Spirit.” She also presented a paper at a conference member of the Expert Advisory Group on practice of PPS, received an award of $300,000 on Youth and Politics hosted by Catholic Preventive Diplomacy, National Commission on from the Kellogg Foundation for operating and University Leuven, in Bruges, Belgium, July 1-3. Genocide Prevention, and on the Presidential program support for the emerging leaders program The paper, co-written with David Gastwirth, Task Force on Preventing Regional Instability of the U.S.-Southern Africa Center for assistant director of Hart Leadership Program, from Iran’s Nuclear Programs at the Washington Leadership and Public Values, which he directs. and Seema Parkash, of the Center for Health Institute for Near East Policy. He was on a panel Policy, analyzed the effects of a research service entitled “First Principles: Where We Stand,” at a Assistant Professor of PPS Judith Kelley gave a learning project incorporated into the course PPS forum at the Progressive Policy Institute Sept. 12, presentation on “D-Minus elections: How con - 114, Political Analysis for Public Policy. Goss also 2008 in Washington, DC. Jentleson also spoke on flicting norms and interests influence whether served as a delegate to the national League of “Strategic Challenges for the Next Administrat - international election observers endorse flawed Women Voters’ biennial convention in June in ion,” at the Oct. 17 Conference on Meeting elections” at the international relations seminar Portland, Oregon. Her work with the LWV, which Complex Challenges through National Security May 12, 2008 at Princeton University and on the includes serving as vice president of the local Reform at the National Defense University in rise of international election monitoring at the league in Arlington, Va., is informing a book in Washington, D.C. international relations seminar Sept. 8 at the progress on the evolution of the policy agendas of Georgetown University Law School. American women’s voluntary associations.

Winter 2009 19 Renewing Struggles for Social Incentives and Choice in Justice: A Primer for Transformative Health Care Book Briefs Leaders Edited by Frank A. Sloan and By Lance C. Buhl on behalf of the Hirschel Kasper Poverty, Participation, and Binational Civil Society Forum, with (The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2008, Democracy: A Global Perspective contributions from Kathryn Whetten 369 pp) and Rachel Whetten, and a preface by Edited by Anirudh Krishna Ambassador James A. Joseph With a recession foremost (Cambridge University Press, 2008, 189pp) (Duke University, 2008, 104pp) in the minds of many Americans, the country’s The perception of democracy as a luxury for Years after the U.S. civil rights movement, there health care system, often the rich is debunked in this collection of remains much work to be done at home and a central issue around essays edited by abroad to further the cause of social justice. In election time, has Associate Professor Renewing Struggles for Social Justice, Lance C. taken a back seat to of PPS and Political Buhl, deputy director of the U.S–Southern seemingly more Science Anirudh Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values, pressing topics. This Krishna . Recent suggests it is every individual’s responsibility collection of essays evidence from to join the struggle for social justice and fair - brings the econom - countries in Asia, ness. He educates the reader on issues such as ics of health care back into Africa, and Latin racial and economic the spotlight. With contributions from Frank America has inequalities, the Sloan, the Alexander McMahon Professor of shown that poor AIDS pandemic, and Health Policy and Manage ment at Duke, and people value the conditions that experts from Harvard, MIT, and other top insti - democracy as result from poverty tutions, Incentives looks into the demand side much as the rich in developing coun - of the syste m— how people make decisions do. Democracy tries, and then calls about what health care packages to purchase and political participation are for action. The citi - and how to consume them. Incentives also related to education, not material wealth. zen-leader is at the discusses the supply side, discussing the Poverty, Participation, and Democracy sup - center of this book. choices medical students and practicing ports the case for investments in education if Social ills are ram - physicians must make to make the system a country strives for a strong and stable pant, and according to Buhl, we all can play a more economically feasible. democracy. role in easing them.

Roy Kelly, professor of the practice of PPS, sentations were: “Three years late r— Environmen - “Advancing Global Health: Making University continues to serve as finance advisor to the tal health impacts of a community-demand-driven Innovations Accessible in Developing Countries,” Local Government Reform Programme, Prime water and sanitation program in rural Maharashtra, at Duke. On Oct. 14, So spoke in Frankfurt at Minister’s Office Regional Administration and India;” “Taps, toilets and net s— Impact of micro- GTZ (the German development aid agency) on Local Government in Tanzania. He presented a finance and social interactions on prevention “Knowledge as a Public Good: From Innovation series of invited lectures on fiscal decentralization behaviors in rural India;” “Climate change, cook to Access.” In Bridgetown, Barbados, on October and local government revenues at the African stoves, and coughs & cold s— Evidence from rural 17, he presented on “Challenges of Innovation: Tax Institute at the University of Pretoria, South Nepal on thinking global, and acting local;” and Alternative Mechanisms to Foster Pharmaceuti - Africa, Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2008. He also gave a “Mediating health impacts of climate chang e— cal Development” during a joint CARICOM- presentation on “Property Tax Reform Experience Evidence from regressions and CGE modeling of UNDP-Pan American Health Organization from Indonesia, Philippines and India” at the forest conser vation in Brazil.” At a seminar series Technical Cooperation Exercise. On Oct. 21-22, International Property Tax Institute (IPTI) and at George Washington University Oct. 21, he So presented at the UNDP-WHO-European China Appraisal Society (CAS) Conference in gave a talk on “Water and Sanitation HCM: Patent Office Technical Consultation Meeting in Beijing, China on Oct. 22. innovative programs and evidence from the New York on “Complementary Approaches to developing world.” He also was part of a panel on Sourcing Patent Information.” He delivered a talk Assistant Research Professor of PPS Clara climate change at the EcoHealth conference on titled “Designing Innovation for Global Health” Muschkin presented a paper titled “Immigration Dec. 2 in Medira, Mexico. at Duke’s conference on Bioengineering Appli - and Changing Public School Enrollments: the cations to Address Global Health. On Nov. 7, Case of North Carolina” at the International Edward Skloot, director of the Center for So, Chris Manz, a medical student at Duke, and Sociological Association Forum of Sociology in Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society, has Evan Stewart presented a poster at the Global Barcelona, Spain, September 5-8, 2008. received an award of $350,000 from the Kresge Ministerial Forum on Research for Health in Foundation for start-up funds for the center. Jenni W. Owen, director of policy initiatives for the Bamako, Mali on Nov. 17-18 on “Realigning Center for Child and Family Policy has received Dr. Anthony So, professor of the practice of PPS, Market Incentives for Innovation in Health an award of $30,000 from Georgetown University presented on “Research and Development in Research: From Antibiotic Resistance to for a project entitled “Consortium of University- Antibiotic Resistance” at the Advisory Meeting Neglected Diseases.” Based Child and Family Policy Programs.” on Antibiotic Resistance of the World Alliance Tom Taylor, professor of the practice of PPS, for Patient Safety, WHO, in Geneva July 23-24, delivered the keynote presentation, “Practice Tips Subhrendu K. Pattanayak gave four presentations 2008. So later chaired the working group on at the American Public Health Association annual for Intelligence Lawyers,” to the Fourth Intelli - Research & Development, Nov. 20-21. On Sept. gence Law Course on June 25 at the Judge meeting in San Diego, Oct. 25-29, 2008. The pre - 29, he moderated a panel discussion on

20 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Va. Family Policy’s conference on “Preventing Public Policy as a Tool for Eliminating Inequality” As a Pentagon consultant, he also authored a Substance Use Initiation Among Adolescents: at the Health Behavior and Health Education report to the Department of Defense General Bringing Science Down to Earth,” which brought Colloquia on Oct. 22, 2008 at UNC-Chapel Hill. Counsel on June 6 on professional responsibility together presenters from Duke, Yale, Tufts, issues for attorneys. University of Kentucky, University of Maryland Jonathan B. Wiener, professor of PPS and law, and NIH, along with more than 100 attending gave a presentation on “The Reality of Precaution,” Jacob Vigdor, associate professor of PPS and practitioners and researchers. The conference at the conference on Social Science and Humani - economics, gave a presentation with Charles took place Oct. 13-14 at the Sanford Institute. He ties Facing Climate Change, in Paris, France, on Clotfelter and Helen “Sunny” Ladd, addressing gave the welcoming address and the closing talk: Sept. 22, 2008. He gave the keynote address, “Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer “Keeping Adolescents on the Straight and Narrow “Climate Policy on a Multipolar Planet,” at the Technology and Student Achievement” at the Path: Integrating Disciplinary Perspectives.” conference on Post-Kyoto Climate Policy at Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington, Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., on D.C., on Sept. 5, 2008, and the University of Kathryn Whetten, associate professor of PPS and Oct. 30. He was a presenter and session chair on Toronto on Sept. 19. He gave a talk “Does director of the Center for Health Policy, received “Risk Regulation in an Interconnected World” at Environmental Remediation Beneﬁt the Poor?” an award from the National Institutes of Health the International Regulatory Reform Conference in on Oct. 3 at the Lone Mountain Forum in Big for a project entitled “HIV/AIDs and Orphan Berlin, Germany on Nov. 18. At the Society for Risk Sky, Mont., sponsored by the Property and Care.” Total funding will be $45,776 over 20 Analysis (SRA) Annual Meeting in Boston, Dec. 7- Environment Research Center. Vigdor was the months. She gave a presentation on “The Inter - 10, he served as president and conference chair. primary organizer for the Center for Child and section of Global/Local Public Health Initiatives:

Alumni News Alu mnus Proﬁle: Raj Goyle, Kansas Representative

By Marquita McAlpine House of Representatives. Although he was receiving Undergraduate For Raj Goyle (PPS ’97), moving endorsements from Democrats Alumni Notes back to Wichita, Kan., after com - and Republicans, Goyle knew it pleting his law degree at Harvard would be a challenge to unseat Mediha Abdulhay (’06) is at the a three-term incumbent. After London School of Economics pursu - University and working in ing an MSc in Global Politics with a Washington, D.C., meant an months of hard work, he was focus on global security issues. opportunity for him to give back able to proclaim victory as the first South Asian American elect - Yoav Lurie (’05) was named a direc - to a community that had support - tor at Synteractive Inc., a D.C.-based ed his family’s dream of better ed to the Kansas House and the strategy consulting and technology opportunity. first Democrat elected in the firm. He leads the practice for large At a young age, Goyle devel - 87th District. nonprofits and associations. oped a passion for community “It created a new path, but it Meredith Barnes (’01) is opera - and began to invest his time in was hard,” said Goyle. tions director at Appleseed, a non - service projects. As a student at grievance process forward. Among his accomplishments profit network of 16 public interest Duke University, that passion led Goyle completed an intern - during his first term was passage justice centers in the United States of the Kansas Funeral Privacy Act, and Mexico. She resides in to his involvement in the ship in 1996 for the Clinton-Gore Washington, D.C. Student-Employee Relations campaign. The internship gave which restricts protests before, Coalition, a collaboration of stu - him an opportunity to gain a bet - during, and after a funeral, an Tiffany Hall (’00) graduated from issue that had arisen at military Fordham University’s School of dents, administrators, faculty ter understanding of campaign - Law in May 2008 and passed the and staff coming together to raise ing and to experience funerals in the state. Goyle also New York State Bar Exam in July. awareness of labor issues and to Washington politics. When focused attention on ethics in She is a staff attorney at Pernod develop a forum to address asked where he gained such a the legislature through his cam - Ricard USA, a premium wine and them. The coalition was devel - passion for politics, he credits paign pledge not to accept free spirits supplier that produces, oped in the aftermath of the Sanford Institute. meals or gifts from lobbyists. imports and markets numerous Goyle was recognized for perfect brands including Absolut Vodka, Hurricane Fran, which hit North “I had a wonderful under - Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky, and Carolina in 1996. graduate experience,” says attendance during the 2007 leg - Jacob’s Creek Wine. “The extreme weather policy Goyle. “The policy department islative session. Casey Stewart (’98) and her hus - wasn’t good for employees was instrumental in developing “I have a high priority on band welcomed their first child, because it was not clear to a lot of my interest in policy and poli - getting the best out of the one Kelsey Charles Stewart III, on Sept. employees if they should come tics.” Duke led Goyle directly to people have chosen to elect,” 4, 2008. to wor k— although very danger - the career he chose after law Goyle said. Ryan Davis (’97) was recently named ous,” said Goyle. The coalition schoo l— as a civil rights attorney In November 2008, Goyle a partner in the law firm Bryan Cave helped the university fashion a and a lecturer at Wichita State won re-election to the seat with LLP. He is a corporate attorney in new policy for weather which University. 67 percent of the vote. their St. Louis office and represents helped several employees affect - In 2006, Raj Goyle announced public and private companies and business owners in connection with ed by the hurricane move their his bid for a seat in the Kansas their merger, acquisition, divestiture

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2 2 Farber Cancer Institute in a research/clinical position with focus in the area of multiple myeloma. Alumnus Profile: Eric Sapp, Faith-based Politics Shannon Szymczak (’99) along with husband, Brian (JD ’99), By Gabe Starosta was supposed to be one of the tightest and daughter, Jillian, welcomed in the country. In September 2006, Meredith Jean Szymczak on The First Amendment to the U.S. Sapp helped Casey draft a speech Aug. 11, 2008. Shannon is still a Constitution is known for many things, titled “Restor ing America’s Moral corporate budget manager for the City of Austin, Texas. among them the concept of separation Compass: Leadership and the of church and state. But for Eric Sapp Common Good,” which Casey deliv - Jennifer Baker Frownfelter (’98) ered at Catholic University in was appointed vice president at (MPP ’02), faith and politics go hand URS Corp. in July 2008, conducting in hand. Washington, D.C. The speech was environmental studies and impact Sapp was the first student to widely credited with spurring Casey’s assessments. With husband, Brian, participate in the joint MPP/Duke comfortable victory in the campaign. and sons, Gavin and Cole, she lives Divinity School program, and the dual “The number one thing we always in Phoenix, Ariz. degrees have served him well in the encouraged is that this work has to be Beth Kidder (’98) and her husband, years since he left Durham. authentic; every one of our candidates sounded Greg DeAngelo, welcomed their first After working on Capitol Hill with Sen. Ted very differently, the speeches they gave, their web child, Pearce, on Sept. 14, 2008. Beth continues to work at the Florida Kennedy (D-Mass) and Rep. David Price (D-NC), sites, their literature,” Sapp said. “And whereas the Agency for Health Care Administra - Sapp co-founded Common Good Strategies to work Republicans on the religious right have tended to tion, overseeing the bureau that sets with Democrats and progressives on what he calls approach this with a kind of religious arrogance, Medicaid coverage policies. “faith outreach.” Sapp and his partners work with Democrats have approached it from a place of reli - Michael Campbell (’97) is happy voters traditionally associated with the Republican gious humility. To steal a line from Lincoln, we seek to announce his marriage to Juliette Part y— white evangelicals, Protestants and weekly not so much to prove that God’s on our side, but Allard of Bordeaux, France, in church attendees, among others —to try to estab - that we are on God’s.” Wood stock, N.Y. on Aug. 21, 2008. lish a relationship between them and the During the 2008 election, Sapp and his partners They reside in Barcelona, Spain, where they run a yoga studio. Democratic Party. at Eleison earned a contract from the Demo cratic Michael commutes to Michigan Since starting the company after the 2004 elec - Congressional Campaign Committee to work on and Washington, D.C. as a health tion and then incorporating it last July into a larger more than 20 House races across the country. All the care consultant for managed care company, Eleison Group, Sapp has made tremen - races they were directly involved i n— including organizations. They spent their the U.S. Senate campaign in North Carolin a— were honeymoon traveling in Canada dous gains for his side of the aisle. The Democratic and New England. Party won many contested seats and took control won by their candidates. Eleison has also expanded of both houses of Congress in the 2006 midterm to work with non profit organizations such as Oxfam Tracy Hollister (’96) is the general manager of research at Training election. Sapp’s company worked on seven races and Al Gore ’s Alliance for Climate Protection. Industry Inc. as of November 2007. during that election cycle, including governor’s While at Sanford, Sapp was able to combine a Tracy also got to drive in Hillary races in Ohio and Michigan and a hotly contested calling to the ministry with his interest in gov ern ment Clinton’s motorcade and meet Senate race in Pennsylvania, and went a cool 7-0. work, and he has found a profession in the thick of Clinton when N.C. Gov. Mike Democrats averaged 21 percent better among white political action that does so once again. He contin - Easley endorsed her in May. She later campaigned for Obama and evangelicals and 17 percent among Protes tants in ues this work through blog postings on belief.net , enjoyed being a part of turning races that Sapp participated in. FaithfulDemocrats.com and other web sites, as well North Carolina blue! In Michigan, Sapp said he started his work by as frequent TV and radio appearances. Anne Scharff Bacon (’95) and her going through the phone book because the state’s “It turned out that the combination [of studying husband, Mark, welcomed daughter Democratic Party had no base in the region he was Divinity and Public Policy] would define all of my Melissa Ashlyn Baco n on Aug. 1, 2008. targeting. By the end of the campaign, the relation - work, which is not exactly what I was expecting Laura Ziff (’95) was promoted to ship with religious groups in the area had grown so when I went in,” Sapp said. “But the two reasons I deputy director, Office of Budget much that white conservative pastors were invited chose that path at the beginning were to create a and Program Performance, at the to write the preamble to the state party’s platform. strong moral compass for the difficult political deci - Department of Transportation in In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, the race between sions I expected to face, and also to prepare me to Washington, D.C. Democrat Bob Casey and incumbent Rick Santorum do a better job of ministry in that setting.” Mike Brogioli (’93) has been named CEO of the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabil - Education. Early in his career he business unit of Battelle Memorial David Liebschutz (’85) directs the i ties (NACDD). Previously, Brogioli was a legislative assistant to U.S. Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Albany office of the Center for served as interim executive director Sen. Tom Daschle. Governmental Research, a Rochester, of the Obsessive Compulsive Foun - Sue Heilbronner (’91) is president N.Y.-based nonprofit think tank and dation in Boston. During previous Dale Rhoda (’93) and his wife, of a new online publishing company, consulting firm. He will continue to assignments he was vice president Kara, welcomed a son, Nathaniel, WEbook.com , which aims to pro - be a public service professor at of policy and government relations in August 2008. In September, Dale vide writers new avenues into pub - Rockefeller College (UAlbany). for Special Olympics International started full-time work as a biostatis - lishing their work. WEbook.com is and executive director of the tician at the Centers for Public headquartered in New York City. Autism Coalition for Research and Health Research & Evaluation, a Winter 2009 23 CSpring 20a09 lendar Lecture and Exhibit Opening Von Der Heyden Lecture: PUBLIC POLICY Exhibit: “Connecti ng Disparate Worlds: Photo graphs by Arye Carmon” John Lewis Gaddis Lecture: “A Struggling Democracy Confronts Political and Govern men tal Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m. Ethics: The Case of Israel” Fleishman Commons Jan. 26, Lecture: Rhodes, Hailed as the “dean of Cold War Focus 4 p.m., followed by recep - historians” by The New York Times , tion in Sanford Lobby Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis is is published three times Arye Carmon, president the keynote speaker for the a year by the of the Israeli Democracy Triangle Institute of Security Terry Sanford Institute Institute, presents a talk. 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