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Interview with Kenneth Prewitt: The need to treat federal statistics as part of the nation’s scientific infrastructure

September 1, 2010| AAPSS, ANNALS|

Kenneth Prewitt, former director of the U.S. Census and Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia... Read More → Interview with Kenneth Prewitt: The need to treat federal statistics as part of the nation’s scientific infrastructure

Robert Greenstein Receives 2010 Moynihan Prize

June 21, 2010| AAPSS, Fellows|

The 2010 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize was presented to Robert Greenstein, Founder and Executive Director of... Read More → Robert Greenstein Receives 2010 Moynihan Prize

AAPSS Inducts 2010 Fellows of the Academy

June 20, 2010| AAPSS, Fellows|

On May 13, 2010, seven of the nation’s finest social scientists were inducted as Fellows of the American... Read More → AAPSS Inducts 2010 Fellows of the Academy

Academy Fellows in the News

June 19, 2010| AAPSS, Fellows|

Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, examines why mothers in the... Read More → Academy Fellows in the News

Mike McCurry: “We should always find a place to honor Pat Moynihan’s kind of insight and service.”

June 18, 2010| AAPSS|

“A president that Daniel Patrick Moynihan much admired and served flattered a 1962 audience of Nobel... Read More → Mike McCurry: “We should always find a place to honor Pat Moynihan’s kind of insight and service.”

David T. Ellwood on Robert Greenstein: “To a social or political scientist with a social conscience, he is a true American hero

June 18, 2010| AAPSS|

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is famously quoted as saying that, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but... Read More → David T. Ellwood on Robert Greenstein: “To a social or political scientist with a social conscience, he is a true American hero

Robert Greenstein: Bringing research and analysis to bear in policy debates

June 18, 2010| AAPSS|

Thank you to friends and colleagues here tonight from the scholarly community; from the world of... Read More → Robert Greenstein: Bringing research and analysis to bear in policy debates

William Julius Wilson: How Cultural and Structural Forces Interact

June 18, 2010| AAPSS, ANNALS|

In his May 2010 Annals article, William Julius Wilson addresses the question of why both social structure and... Read More → William Julius Wilson: How Cultural and Structural Forces Interact

Mario Small: Defining policy through evidence not preconceptions

June 18, 2010| AAPSS, ANNALS|

University of Chicago Sociology Professor Mario Small discusses the changes in attitudes toward poverty in... Read More → Mario Small: Defining policy through evidence not preconceptions

Michele Lamont: The need to engineer policies so the poor are not stigmatized

June 18, 2010| AAPSS, ANNALS|

Can policy-makers move beyond the notion that the poor have wrong values that influence their life choices... Read More → Michele Lamont: The need to engineer policies so the poor are not stigmatized

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