P.S. You’re Interesting USC Bedrosian Center

Jeff speaks with Anna Harvey, Professor of Politics; Affiliated Professor of Data Science and Law; Director, Public Safety Lab at NYU about research and more.
Harvey’s research focuses on criminal justice, policing, judicial politics, and political economy.
Email: bedrosian.center@usc.edu
Twitter: @BedrosianCenter

Jeff speaks with Michael Olson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University at St. Louis about research and more.
Olson’s research focuses on political representation using historic and contemporary observational data.
Email: bedrosian.center@usc.edu
Twitter: @BedrosianCenter

Jeff speaks with Zhao Li, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Li studies institutional and behavioral factors in donor decision making in contemporary American Politics.
She recently gave a research talk at USC Price, looking at the connections between Fox News and GOP campaign rallies and finances. Recent work has looked at the interaction of finance and access in PACs.
Email: bedrosian.center@usc.edu
Twitter: @BedrosianCenter

Jeffery speaks with new USC Dornsife assistant professor Miguel Pereira about research and experiments in political science.
Pereira's research focuses on political representation and the behavior of political elites in established democracies, with a focus on causal inference. In addition, he shares some new research looking at responsiveness of legislators with specific policy expertise.

In this episode, Jeff speaks with Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten. In The Politics of the Pill, the two authors explore how gender has shaped contemporary debates over contraception policy in the U.S.
Within historical context, they examine the impact that women and perceptions of gender roles had on media coverage, public opinion, policy formation, and legal interpretations from the deliberation of the Affordable Care Act in 2009 to the more recent Supreme Court rulings in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Zubic v. Burwell.
Their central argument is that representation matters: who had a voice significantly impacted policy attitudes, deliberation and outcomes. While women’s participation in the debate over birth control was limited by a lack of gender parity across institutions, women nevertheless shaped policy making on birth control in myriad and interconnected ways.
Combining detailed analyses of media coverage and legislative records with data from public opinion surveys, survey experiments, elite interviews, and congressional testimony, The Politics of the Pill tells a broader story of how gender matters in American politics.

In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins speaks with Melissa Lee, Assistant Professor of Politics & International Affairs, Princeton University. They begin discussing a recent project in which Lee and co-author study the change in civic language reflecting the change in thinking about the U.S. as a collection of states to a nation. Moving from there to, they discuss possible new directions in research followed by a conversation about Lee's latest book: Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State.

Email: bedrosian.center@usc.edu
Twitter: @BedrosianCenter