Governance Loop

Today’s episode is part of our Seminar Series, in which we facilitate discussions on work conducted by teams of academic researchers and practitioners that relates to one of four thematic topics: 1) Crime Reduction & Police Accountability, 2) Climate Change Governance, 3) Displacement, Migration, & Integration, and 4) Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization.

This episode focuses on Climate Change Governance, presenting a conversation between Paul Ferraro (Johns Hopkins) and EGAP member Tara Slough (NYU). Prof. Ferraro's research incorporates insights in the behavioral sciences into the design of interventions and measures program effects on the environment and human welfare. We ask him about four recent experiments that evaluate several climate change adaptation interventions in both Costa Rica and in the United States.

Today’s episode is part of our Seminar Series, in which we facilitate discussions on work conducted by teams of academic researchers and practitioners that relates to one of four thematic topics: 1) Crime Reduction & Police Accountability, 2) Climate Change Governance, 3) Displacement, Migration, & Integration, and 4) Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization.

This episode focuses on Displacement, Migration, and Integration,  presenting a discussion with researchers Yang-Yang Zhou (University of British Columbia) and Jason Lyall (Dartmouth College) about the results from a randomized controlled trial conducted during a period of conflict in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The study analyzed whether prolonged contact improved relationships between local residents and IDPs, through a vocational skills training program that emphasized hands-on collaborative learning. Bret Barrowman (International Republican Institute) serves as a discussant and Alexandra Scacco, EGAP member and Senior Research Fellow in the Institutions and Political Inequality unit at WZB, moderates the conversation. 

Today’s episode is part of our Seminar Series, in which we facilitate discussions on work conducted by teams of academic researchers and practitioners that relates to one of four thematic topics: 1) Crime Reduction & Police Accountability, 2) Climate Change Governance, 3) Displacement, Migration, & Integration, and 4) Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization.

This episode focuses on Displacement, Migration, and Integration,  presenting a discussion with researcher Andrés Moya (UniAndes), along with Cristina Gutierrez de Piñeres (United Way Colombia) and Diana María Pineda Ruiz (Fundación Éxito), representatives from the organizations that implemented the project's program in Tumaco, Colombia—a territory rife with armed conflict due to the drug trade. The study analyzed how the pandemic affected mental health and parenting stress among caregivers, many of whom are internally displaced persons (IDPs), through a psychosocial program that seeks to restore maternal mental health and improve early childhood development among violence-exposed families. Rosario Aguilar, EGAP member and Senior Lecturer of Comparative Politics at Newcastle University, moderates the conversation. 

Today’s episode is part of our Seminar Series, in which we facilitate discussions on work conducted by teams of academic researchers and practitioners that relates to one of four thematic topics: 1) Crime Reduction & Police Accountability, 2) Climate Change Governance, 3) Displacement, Migration, & Integration, and 4) Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization.

This episode focuses on Displacement, Migration, and Integration,  presenting a discussion with researchers Alexandra Scacco (WZB) and Bernd Beber (RWI), along with Emeka Eluemunor (Country Director) of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Nigeria, the research and policy nonprofit that implemented the survey. IPA Nigeria recently worked with the researchers to run a field experiment conducted in the Nigerian states of Delta and Edo—epicenters of irregular migration—that provided detailed information about the migration journey to a representative sample of households and measured impacts on actual migration. Gareth Nellis, EGAP member and Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego, moderates the conversation. 

Today’s episode is part of our Seminar Series, in which we facilitate discussions on work conducted by teams of academic researchers and practitioners that relates to one of four thematic topics: 1) Crime Reduction & Police Accountability, 2) Climate Change Governance, 3) Displacement, Migration, & Integration, and 4) Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization.

This episode focuses on Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization, presenting a discussion with researchers Hannah Baron (Brown University), Robert Blair (Brown University), and Jessica Gottlieb (University of Houston). Along with the research team, we are joined by Bill Doherty, co-founder of Braver Angels, a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America. Braver Angels recently worked with the researchers to run a randomized controlled trial of workshops to study one model of depolarizing partisans—reciprocal group reflection, inspired by marital counseling—to find out whether it significantly reduces polarization according to explicit and implicit measures and increases participants’ support for depolarization. David Broockman, EGAP member and Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, moderates the conversation. 

Today’s episode is part of our Seminar Series, in which we facilitate discussions on work conducted by teams of academic researchers and practitioners that relates to one of four thematic topics: 1) Crime Reduction & Police Accountability, 2) Climate Change Governance, 3) Displacement, Migration, & Integration, and 4) Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization.

This episode focuses on Crime Reduction and Police Accountability, presenting a discussion with Joana Monteiro (FGV/EBAPE), Santiago Tobón (Universidad EAFIT), and Andrés Tobón (Universidad EAFIT). Together, the panelists bring expertise studying the structure, operations, and societal impact of gangs in different contexts, including Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru. In this episode, they discuss what we know and don’t know about gangs, the challenges faced by policymakers in confronting these organizations, and the ways in which researchers and practitioners can come together to address these difficult issues. Lucia Tiscorina (CIDE) moderates the conversation.

Today’s episode is part of our Seminar Series, in which we facilitate discussions on work conducted by teams of academic researchers and practitioners that relates to one of four thematic topics: 1) Crime Reduction & Police Accountability, 2) Climate Change Governance, 3) Displacement, Migration, & Integration, and 4) Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization.

This episode focuses on Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization, presenting a discussion with José Ramón Enríquez (Harvard University) and Alberto Simpser (ITAM), along with implementing partner Mónica Meltis, Executive Director of Data Cívica, a Mexican civil society organization that provides training on technological tools and open data to promote transparency and citizen participation. They discuss the effectiveness of interventions to communicate objective information, even in polarized contexts with high levels of mistrust and heightened emotions. Jessica Gottlieb, EGAP member and co-chair of the Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization Priority Theme committee, moderates the conversation.

Today’s episode is part of our Seminar Series, in which we facilitate discussions on work conducted by teams of academic researchers and practitioners that relates to one of four thematic topics: 1) Crime Reduction & Police Accountability, 2) Climate Change Governance, 3) Displacement, Migration, & Integration, and 4) Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization.

This episode focuses on Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization, presenting a discussion with Tiago Ventura and Ernesto Calvo from the University of Maryland, as well as Olivia Sohr from Chequeado, an Argentinian non-profit independent media organization. Tiago, Ernesto, and Olivia recently worked together to run a survey experiment during the 2019 presidential election in Argentina. Their study tested circumstances under which voters would share corrections to political and health-related misinformation with fellow citizens. Cyrus Samii, EGAP’s Executive Director, moderates the conversation.