by jpitney | Dec 21, 2019 | Civic Education, Tocqueville
Cynthia Bambrick at Political Science Now: While most of us may not live in the sort of townships that Tocqueville observed in the Early Republic, we can still glean lessons from the experiences of those who did. Specifically, we can see the importance of the moral...
by jpitney | Dec 20, 2019 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives, Polarization
On Thursday Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress (“Select Committee”) passed its third round of bipartisan recommendations: “Since this committee was created, our mission has been to craft bipartisan solutions to make Congress work better for the people...
by jpitney | Dec 19, 2019 | Civility, Congress
In January 2018, Georgetown University held a discussion with lawmakers on political civility. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and John Delaney (D-MD) and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) spoke about the need for more civility and bipartisanship in Congress....
by jpitney | Dec 18, 2019 | Congress, Deliberation, Technology, Uncategorized
M. Anthony Mills at LegBranch.org: Political momentum is building to revive the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a congressional agency that once provided lawmakers with nonpartisan technical expertise. Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang...
by jpitney | Dec 17, 2019 | Higher Education
The Pepperdine School of Public Policy Washington, DC Policy Scholars Program explores topics typically untouched by Washington, DC-based policy studies programs, pushing its participants to better understand the vital interconnection between culture, history, and...
