Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

In IPP news this week, the Women’s Foundation released new research conducted in partnership with the Institute of Public Policy that supports proposed legislation to expand Earned Family and Medical Leave to all Missourians.  Last March, Gov. Greitens signed EO 17-09, granting executive branch employees up to six weeks of parental leave following the birth or adoption of a child.  Several measures are now under consideration to extend Earned Family and Medical Leave to all Missourians.

Ed Goldring received a place on the Institute for Far Eastern Studies’ (IFES) summer program in 2017. IFES is a research arm of Kyungnam University in South Korea, whose scholars focus on research relating to peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula. Ed conducted research for two months over the summer in Seoul, including interviews with North Korean defectors, policy, and media professionals.

Dictators and Their Secret Police by Assistant Professor Sheena Greitens has been named a co-winner of the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Comparative Democratization.  The selection committee was “deeply impressed with the rigor of [the] comparative analysis and the magnitude of [the] book’s theoretical contributions to our understanding of coercive institutions.”  The book was recognized at the September APSA conference in San Francisc

In the online Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol 36 Issue 4, Cory Koedel, Stephanie Cellini, Gregory Gilpin and Christina Stoddard continue the conversation in Point / Counterpoint on the issue of limiting federal student aid to For-Profit colleges while Theodore Joyce asks Should For-Profit Colleges Receive Federal Student Aid?

Professor Peverill Squire's most recent book, The Rise of the Representative: Lawmakers and Constituents in Colonial America, is now out from University of Michigan Press.

Read an interview with Squire about his latest project.

Three MU Political Science graduate students attended the prestigious Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in Ann Arbor, Michigan this summer.