Stephen Danley has been elected as the Chair-Elect of the Association for Research on Non-Profts and Voluntary Association’s (ARNOVA) Community and Grassroots Associations (CGA) Section. As Chair-Elect, Danley will continue his attempts to make ARNOVA a welcoming place for practitioners and grassroots activists interested in the intersection between activism and research.
Beth Rabinowitz’s dissertation, titled Reversal of Fortune: Regime Strategies and Political (In)Stability in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, 1950-2000, has been nominated for the American Political Science Association’s Gabriel A. Almond Award. The prize is awarded annually for the best dissertation in the field of comparative politics and was created in recognition of Gabriel Almond’s contributions to… continue reading
How a Great School is Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in America’s Poorest City. Comcast Newsmakers LEAP web. South Jersey Magazine Book interview.
Patrice M. Mareschal has published Labor Relations in the Public Sector, 5th ed. 2014.CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL.
An important decision was handed down in the Wisconsin voter ID case, LULAC v. Deininger. The judge cited Professor Lori Minnite’s testimony in finding that the law unconstitutional and violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (pp. 18-19): “As Professor Minnite testified, the publicity surrounding photo ID legislation creates the false perception that voter-impersonation… continue reading
In the coming months, the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences will publish an essay on the “underclass” penned by Paul Jargowsky and Lorraine C. Minnite.
