AmeriCorps, Today's Depression-era CCC
Soon after taking office, Franklin Roosevelt boldly proposed the Civilian Conservation Corps as a way to create jobs and hope during the Great Depression.
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Learning to Lead: Pedagogy of Practice
The last twenty-five years have witnessed an explosion in the field of leadership education.
How Obama Could be the Leader in the Room
President Obama was smart to change the date of his speech to a joint session of Congress and to do so quickly, but whether he is adopting a smart strategy for creating jobs is a much bigger, tougher
Media, Public Opinion, and Presidential Leadership
The field of public opinion is one of the most diverse in political science.
Victory for US Leadership
With the imminent and long-awaited collapse of the brutal Khadafy regime, President Obama’s careful, persistent, and oft-criticized policy in Libya has worked. When the protests began in Libya last w
What the U.S. Government Can Learn from Business
Whatever late compromise is finally agreed upon in the U.S. debt ceiling debate, the most difficult hurdles for any deficit-reduction effort lie ahead.
Testimony before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management
Chairman Akaka, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Subcommittee: I am honored to be here before you today. My name is David Ellwood. I am the Dean of the John F.
Eisenhower Study Group on the Costs of War
As of December 2010, 1.25 million service men and women had returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Parallel R&D Paths Revisited
This paper revisits the logic of pursuing parallel R&D paths when there is uncertainty as to which approaches will succeed technically and/or economically.
Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama
The United States had never lost a war—that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a “raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country.” The
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