Rick Harrison

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Yale Hosts Conference on the Politics of Crime and Punishment

Nov 25, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

To Benjamin Justice, the criminal justice and education systems possess similar virtues and defects when it comes to civics. Both utilize a curriculum to shape how people within the system think about their relationship to the government, how they feel about themselves, and which skills they develop. He also sees a divide between what organizations say they do — their formal curriculum — and what they do in practice — a hidden curriculum, which can undermine their stated purpose.
Yale Youth Poll: Students Lead Nation’s Largest Youth Political Survey

Nov 20, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

Among the polls that popular statistician and poker player Nate Silver included in one of his final models to predict the presidential race: a poll conducted by the New York Times and Siena College, one by international online research data and technology organization YouGov, and one conducted by a group of Yale undergraduate students.
Remembering David Smith: Pioneer of Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Nov 11, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

As an undergraduate student at Yale, Carleen Zubrzycki felt lucky to have signed up for an introductory bioethics class taught by David Smith. “There was something so grounded and real about what Professor Smith was talking about,” said Zubrzycki, now an associate professor of law at the University of Connecticut. “He had a real insistence that human flourishing and how humans find actual meaning in life were the lodestars of ethical analysis. He wasn’t interested in simple answers.
Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Nov 8, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

Opponents of tax-and-spend policies to support the social safety net and reduce economic inequality often attack them as an unfair taking. Why, the argument goes, should the government redistribute wealth to benefit poor and marginalized members of our society?
How Yale Students are Using Data Science to Predict Election Results

Oct 29, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

Nobody knows for sure who will win the presidential election on Nov. 5. But most professional pollsters agree on one conclusion: It will be close. As the country awaits the final results, Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies has challenged students to see if they can compete with political operatives, media organizations, and each other to predict vote share and turnout for the presidential, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House of Representatives elections.
When There is So Much Poverty in the World, Why Should We Also Worry About Inequality?

Oct 24, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

According to the most recent census data, 36.8 million Americans live in poverty, slightly more than 11 percent of the population. Nearly half of the world’s population — about 3.5 billion people — , and 8.5 percent are considered living below the extreme poverty line for low-income countries. At the same time, inequality has exploded over recent decades.
Newly Released Ballot Data Finds Ticket Splitting Among Republican, Democratic Voters

Oct 23, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

In the 2020 presidential election, 1.9% of Republican voters in battleground states who supported Republican candidates for both Congress and state legislative seats split their ticket with a vote for Joe Biden, according to a new analysis funded in part by Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Among Democrats who were solidly supportive of lower-office Democrats in the same states, 1% split their ticket for Donald Trump.
Yale Students Gain Government Experience Through Millstone Fellowship

Oct 16, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

Axel de Vernou wants to make a difference. Now a Yale College senior, he has worked as an open-source exploitation intern in the federal government, a grand strategy and nuclear strategy intern at the Hudson Institute, and a research assistant/intern at various foreign policy organizations, including the Alexander Hamilton Society, the Yorktown Institute, and the Wilson Center.
Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Oct 11, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

On a street corner above a storefront window on the South Side of Chicago, a dark blue awning advertises the presence of the Southside Republicans’ Booker T. Washington & Ida B. Wells Renaissance Center. In the left corner it reads: “FIX WHERE WE LIVE.” A post on X announcing the center’s opening in March included the hashtag “turnchicagored.”Based on party affiliation and history, a majority of voters in Chicago will almost certainly not vote Republican in November’s elections.
Experts Gather at Yale to Discuss the Past and Future of Citizens’ Assemblies

Oct 2, 2024 | isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison

In 2004, the province of British Columbia in Canada invented and held the first modern citizens’ assembly to address growing tensions with its first-past-the-post electoral system. Citizens’ assemblies are large groups of randomly selected citizens convened to deliberate and recommend policies.