Prospective applicants and those already accepted are encouraged to attend.

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Thursday, June 9th 12pm (ET) with discussion on Public Management with PADP faculty

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Prospective applicants and those already accepted are encouraged to attend.

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Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 at 1pm with discussion on Local Government with Dr. Eric Zeemering

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Prospective applicants and those already accepted are encouraged to attend.

Register for one or both of our upcoming webinars:

Monday, Feb. 21, 2022 at 12pm with discussion on Public Budgeting and Finance with Dr. Felipe Lozano Rojas
Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 at 1pm with discussion on Local Government with Dr. Eric Zeemering

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Prospective applicants and those already accepted are encouraged to attend.

Register for one of our upcoming webinars:

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022 at 12pm discussion on Public Management with Dr. Ed. Kellough

Monday, Feb. 7, 2022 at 12pm with discussion on Public Budgeting and Finance with Dr. Felipe Lozano Rojas

Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 at 1pm with discussion on Local Government with Dr. Eric Zeemering

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Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at 1pm discussion about Health Policy with Dr. Amanda Abraham

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022 at 12pm discussion on Public Management with Dr. Ed. Kellough

Monday, Feb. 7, 2022 at 12pm with discussion on Public Budgeting and Finance with Dr. Felipe Lozano Rojas

Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 at 1pm with discussion on Local Government with Dr. Eric Zeemering

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Prepare for the next step in your career. Earn your Master of Public Administration at UGA. Attend our MPA webinar and/or Visitation Day to learn more about our MPA program.

Prospective applicants and those already accepted are encouraged to attend.

Participate with faculty, student, and alumni panels; discussion about the program; and Q&A. Lunch will be provided.

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The work BFK does helps children obtain books when even the library is not an option for reasons related to geography, transportation, or something as simple as an inability to pay fines for lost books. This nonprofit also helps to end 鈥渟ummer slide,鈥� the learning loss suffered by many children when they are away from school. Children from low-income families are disproportionately affected by this loss, often due to a simple lack of access to books. Books for Keeps bridges the gap by giving them books 鈥� high-quality, exciting books with contemporary titles.

Books for Keeps鈥� primary program is a research-based. They are building on a strong foundation of research and use testing data from the schools they serve. They also work researchers from The SPIA.

Through the end of February PADP will be collecting books to be donated to Books for Keeps. Please drop off your gently used books in or office at Baldwin Hall 204, now through February 28. You can find a list of the most desired books . BFK is always in need of books for Pre-K through 12, but will take any books you are able to donate. There are more ways to help out. Please consider ,听,听,听,听, or just spreading the word. Want to donate on your own? You can find a list of BFK drop-off locations .

Please also take a few moments to check out the Books for Keeps and learn more about their program, their research, and how they are helping the Athens community.

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What does Godzilla have to do with predicting how close we are to nuclear war? According to Dr. Jeff Berejikian, who recently presented on this topic at TedxUGA: everything.

For Berejikian, the story of Godzilla offers an important metaphor about the relationship between citizens and their democracy. 鈥淲hen we ignore big problems, they don鈥檛 go away, they get bigger,鈥� he said. 鈥淪ometimes they come back as giant monsters that seek to destroy us.鈥�

Berejikian describes how, in the 1954 blockbuster, a true a crisis ensued after government officials took it upon themselves to secretly test a hydrogen bomb. While their broader intentions were admirable, officials chose not to tell the public about what was happening, and this, according to Berejikian, is what鈥檚 most relevant now. Small groups of public officials, even when well-intentioned, can make terrible mistakes.

To examine this idea, Berejikian described a recent research project in which his team attempted to identify the conditions under which government officials might accidentally start a nuclear conflict.

Building upon principles from the discipline of cognitive science, Berejikian and his colleagues conducted a set of psychological experiments comparing the decisions of military officials and the general public. They found that, for officials, 鈥淩e-framing the same situation from gains to losses more than doubled the percentage of experts who recommended going to war with a nuclear-armed country”

Ultimately, they found that military experts were easier to manipulate into starting a war than regular civilians. As we inch closer and closer to nuclear war, it becomes imperative that we have an informed public actively participating in the big, important decisions of our time.

There are many examples of how an informed public can shape our government’s decisions. For example, citizens鈥� awareness of growing nuclear arms race in Europe, during the Cold War, produces such backlash the U.S. and Russia signed treaty banning the placement of nuclear weapons in Europe.

鈥淭hose protests, those demonstrations, and the politics that resulted put pressure on the U.S. and on European governments to negotiate with Russia and create the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Agreement, which got rid of the weapons.鈥�

鈥淗owever,鈥� he continued, 鈥渙ur attention has waned since the end of the Cold War and the United States and Russia were both able to pull out of the treaty in the past year, all without any media or citizen attention. With public pressure we created that agreement, when public pressure left, the countries withdrew.鈥�

This, he explains, is why it鈥檚 still possible for a “Godzilla problem” to result from public officials making decisions without the voice of the people.

He offered a glimmer of hope, which he defined as citizen participation. 鈥淚 firmly believe, and this is why I teach, that broader-informed public engagement gives us the best chance of solving our problems. I don鈥檛 know what the right answers are but I do think the democratic institution is where the answers can be found.鈥�

To watch the TedxUGA talk, click here.

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Over the course of his presidency, Obama appointed 55 appellate judges, 35 of whom were women and/or people of color, making the US Court of Appeals the most diverse it has ever been. As a judicial diversity scholar, political science professor Dr. Susan Haire, along with three colleagues, applied for a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to analyze the effect of increased diversity on courts. This grant allows Haire and her team to comb through data on judges and their opinions from each appeals court from 2009 to 2016, adding to an existing database of judicial opinions on cases that date back to the 1920s.

UGA connections run deep in this team, consisting of Drs. John Szmer (UNC Charlotte), Laura Moyer (University of Louisville), and Rob Christensen (BYU). Both Moyer, who specializes in judicial diversity and collegiality, and Szmer, who specializes in judicial process and diversity, were Haire鈥檚 former graduate students at UGA. Christensen, who specializes in public management and law, met Haire while he was a faculty member in the department of public administration and policy at UGA.

In March 2017, the team started collecting data with NSF support. Over the next two years, Haire, Moyer, Szmer, and Christensen assembled data on thousands of cases, including the opinion text and subsequent citations to those opinions. They are studying the gender and race of the judges, the tone (of both audio recordings and written statements using text analysis software), and the content of the opinions. In fall 2018, they presented preliminary findings showing that non-traditional judges (women and/or minorities) write significantly different opinions than their white, male counterparts.

Haire explains, 鈥淥pinions written by non-traditional judges were 15 percent longer. They were also more likely to ground their opinions in case law鈥elying more frequently on what we describe to be 鈥榮trong cites鈥� (where they quote from an existing precedent) when compared to opinions authored by white male judges.鈥� Moyer added that they hypothesize this is happening because judges from non-traditional backgrounds may feel they have more to prove.

Although Moyer mentioned writing much longer and more in-depth opinions could potentially have a negative effect by leading to faster burnout for the judges, she also revealed an unintended positive effect. 鈥淲riting thorough, well-written opinions increases the likelihood that those opinions could be referenced and cited in future cases.鈥� This indicates that the opinions written by female and non-white judges may be referenced more in the future, and thus, may craft the next wave of cited case law, setting a disproportionately high amount of precedence for the future. Moyer also explained that having more judges who write thorough opinions grounded in case law could also potentially change the norms and lead to all judges improving the quality of their opinions.

While the original timeframe of the grant is now ending, the team is expected to have the grant extended by six months to a year to explore new data on oral arguments. The team is proposing to examine patterns of interruption, to see if female judges are interrupted more than male judges, as well as to analyze their results in the context of imposter syndrome, a psychological pattern where individuals doubt their accomplishments and fear they don鈥檛 deserve the position they have. Once the data set is complete, it will be available online, free of cost.

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New findings from 快猫短视频 Professor W. David Bradford elaborate on a well-known economic principle.

Time discounting, when a person cares less about a future consequence than a present one, is considered a 鈥渇undamental characteristic of human decision-making,鈥� Bradford explains. 聽

For example, a person may choose to have a cupcake today, even though they are trying to lose weight.

Within the field of economics, it鈥檚 often observed that a person will choose a smaller good today over a larger good later. But the further the decision is in the future, the more likely they are to choose the larger good.

This means if a person was offered $50 today or $100 next week, a surprising amount of people choose the $50 today, even though they understand it鈥檚 much less money. But when asked about making the decision in the future, $50 in two years or $100 in three years, the majority choose the higher amount.

This concept is called hyperbolic discounting. The idea is that people make dramatically worse decisions when thinking of the present and short-term, but their decision-making stabilizes over time.

Several theories have been developed to explain this phenomena, but not all researchers are convinced 鈥渉yperbolic discounting鈥� is what鈥檚 occurring.

This lack of consensus prompted Bradford, along with colleagues at the London School of Economics, to create an experiment designed to tease out what really is happening.

They found that when they view the results in terms of 鈥渙bjective鈥� time, hyperbolic discounting is present but when they view the results in terms of 鈥渟ubjective鈥� time, there is not much of a hyperbolic pattern.

Bradford specifies that they do see a dramatic difference between same day choice comparisons like the cupcake example, sometimes called 鈥渇irst day effects,鈥� but from 鈥渢omorrow鈥� on the choices people make are fairly consistent.

These findings indicate that hyperbolic discounting may just be a result of expecting people to understand objective time, rather than a real difference in preferences. Bradford concludes, 鈥淧eople seem to be more consistent than we give them credit for.鈥�

While explaining the impact of this line of research, Bradford alludes to the beginning of the human race. 鈥淕iven that our survival depended on being able to scavenge food, it鈥檚 not surprising that a preference for the present is written into our DNA.鈥�

He continued, 鈥淎 human that turned away a meal just because they weren鈥檛 hungry right then was a human who might not survive.鈥�

He proceeded to explain that a strong preference for the present isn鈥檛 necessarily a bad thing because there are very few situations when a person is truly choosing between a consequence today or tomorrow.

Except in cases of addiction. In the case of quitting an addictive substance, a user can plan to quit 鈥渢omorrow鈥� but it will never happen unless they are able to make the decision 鈥渢oday.鈥�

For this reason, Bradford hopes that this line of research will help people to see addiction as 鈥渇uture discounting gone haywire鈥� instead of as a moral failing.

He believes that psychologists and physicians treating people with substance use disorders can use this research to help people in treatment make better decisions.

The article is now available online from the .

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