Gordon Public Policy Center

The Gordon Public Policy Center was established in 1987, and is supported by a continuing program of gifts from the James Gordon Foundation in Chicago, Illinois.

The Gordon Center supports research; campus-based lectures, workshops, and conferences; and publications focused on various aspects of public policymaking in the United States and other developed democracies. The Gordon Foundation also provides support for up to three graduate fellowships in the Department of Politics, for doctoral students working in the field of public policy.

The Gordon Fellows for 2004-05 are Marketa Valkova and Daniel Kenney, PhD candidates in the Department of Politics.

Work supported by the Gordon Center has been published in three edited volumes:

• Mark Landy, et. al, editors. The New Politics of Public Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
• Martin A. Levin, et. al, editors. Seeking the Center (Georgetown University Press, 2001)
• Martin A. Levin and Martin Shapiro, editors. Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity (Georgetown University Press, 2004)

The current work of the Center focuses on two themes: First, the politics and economics of the market, a projected led by Professor Martin Levin; and second, the challenge of policing under conditions of cultural pluralism, a project led by Professor Daniel Kryder. A conference on the theme The Politics and Economics of the Market was held on campus February 4th and 5th, which included the following contributions:

• Eric Patashnik (University of Virginia) The Day After Market-Oriented Reform; or What Happens When Economists' Reform Ideas Meet Politics
• Steven Vogel (Berkeley) Why Freer Markets Need More Rules
• Jacob Hacker (Yale University) Policy Drift: The Hidden Politics of US Welfare State Retrenchment
• Andrew Rich (City College of New York) Reaching Competition Despite Deregulation: The Case of Telecommunications Reform
• Darius Gaskins (Norbridge, Inc.) The Success and Limits of Deregulation in Network Industries: Freight Railroad and Electricity
• Richard O'Neill and Udi Helman (FERC) Electricity De-Regulation: California, New Jersey, and the Feds
• Jonathan Macey (Yale University) The Myths and Realities of Banking Deregulation
• John Cioffi (University of California, Riverside) Be Careful What You Wish For: Securities Regulation, Tort-Reform, and Re-Regulation in the United States, 1992-2002
• Frederick Hess (American Enterprise Institute) The Dilemmas of School Choice: Markets Work When They Hurt
• Graham Wilson (University of Wisconsin) Deregulation of Agriculture: The Successes and Failures of the 1996 Farm Reform Act
• Alan Jacobs (University of British Columbia) and Steve Teles (Brandeis University) Privatization of Pensions, Regulation, and the Scope of Government Intervention: The British Experience, 1979-2004

April 15, 2005 Conference on "Policing, Social Conflict, and Democratization"

Participants:

• Deborah Wilson (University of Louisville) Police Reform in a Multicultural State in Transition: the case of Romania
• Matthew Deflem (University of South Carolina) Policing World Society: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation
• Maria Haberfeld (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) Community Oriented Policing in Poland
• Archon Fung (Kennedy School of Government) Chicago Police-Community Relations as a Case of Empowered Participation
• Christopher Winship (Harvard University) Police-Church Partnerships in Boston
• Tim Ross (Vera Institute of Justice) Improving Cooperation between Law Enforcement and Arab Communitites