David Brady
Public policy professor at USC Sol Price School. Scholar of poverty, inequality, social policy, policymakers and immigration.
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What is Public Policy Theory II? (opens the original)
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As I posted a while back, I’m teaching the public theory seminar for our PhD students for the first time this Fall. Here was my first post - long before a long Summer of reading a lot of literature to get ready. I’ve now finalized the syllabus and have a “theory” of what this theory seminar should do. At least, “theoretically” do. Or, what I’m “in theory” trying to do. The reading list should be below as a pdf “Ppd 712 Reading List F26”:Preparing this class has been a
The Decline of Children in Single Mother Families (opens the original)
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I’ve written perhaps too much about single motherhood. For example, here, here, here, here, and even in the NY Times. Our <a href="https://bradydave.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/
Revisiting the Rise and Fall of Government Spending in Affluent Democracies (opens the original)
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In 2014, Hang Young Lee and I published an article in the Journal of European Social Policy with the same title as this post. At the time, we could only analyze data thru 2008. Partly, this was because OECD data are always slow to roll out. Partly, this was because the shock of the Great Recession made us reluctant to generalize past it. At the time, we concluded that there definitely w
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