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- Strategic choices: Australia, China and the US in Asia
- The Dynamics of Top-Down Organizational Change: Donald Rumsfeld's Campaign to Transform the US Defense Department
- Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865
- Political fortunes: On finance and its regulation
- Rebalancing the Global Economy: A primer for policymaking
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Strategic choices: Australia, China and the US in Asia
20 August 2010
In the latest edition of the Asialink Essays Geoffrey Garrett discusses the important strategic choices facing the Australian government in the Asia-Pacific Century. Read Essay
The Dynamics of Top-Down Organizational Change: Donald Rumsfeld's Campaign to Transform the US Defense Department
4 August 2010
by Timothy Came and Colin Campbell
Drawing upon interviews with 69 defense policymakers and close observers, this Governance article develops an extrapolation-oriented case study of Donald Rumsfeld's campaign to transform the development of the U.S. Defense Department's future capabilities. This reform effort, launched by President George W. Bush during his first presidential campaign, encountered difficulties in developing and promoting the content of the proposed transformation and in executing it. Following Eugene Bardach's work on institutional craftsmanship and Michael Barzelay's efforts to further develop Bardach's methodology for extrapolation-oriented case studies, the article explores the sources of the transformation campaign's difficulties, identifying several mechanisms linking common process context factors, exacerbated by process design features, to these negative outcomes. It also offers suggestions for rendering the design of change campaigns more robust to these vulnerabilities. Read Article
Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865
20 July 2010
by Mark Geiger
This highly original work published by Yale University Press explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri’s guerrilla conflict, and for the state’s anomalous experience in Reconstruction. In the broader history of the war, the book reveals for the first time the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States. More information
Political fortunes: On finance and its regulation
15 July 2010
by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, Thomas Romer and Howard Rosenthal
This article co-authored by US Studies Centre Visiting Fellow Thomas Romer will appear in an upcoming issue of Daedalus and looks at the political dimensions of the 2008 financial crisis. Read Article
Rebalancing the Global Economy: A primer for policymaking
28 June 2010
This e-book released by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) right before the Toronto G-20 summit features a piece about China-US imbalances and Europe's fiscal crisis by US Studies Centre chief executive Professor Geoffrey Garrett. In it (chapter 22), Professor Garrett says that as the global crisis subsides, focus is shifting to the global imbalances. He argues that China-US economic imbalances, and the challenge of managing them down politically as well as economically, are likely to become even more critical. Read chapter
Liberation and Redemption in 1970s Rock Music
24 June 2010
Sheehan has contributed the chapter "Liberation and Redemption in 1970s Rock Music" to the book The Shock of the Global The 1970s in Perspective written by Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela and Daniel J. Sargent and published by Harvard University Press. Read Chapter
Negotiating the promised land: The end of innocence?
22 June 2010
This essay in the Israel Studies Forum (Vol. 25 Iss. 1) focuses on three broad issues crucial to a successful Arab-Israeli negotiated outcome including strong leadership, excellent timing, and proper management of the US-Israeli relationship. The essay reviews three recent books by former US policymakers: Martin Indyk’s Innocent Abroad, Daniel Kurtzer and Scott Lasensky’s Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, and Aaron David Miller’s The Much Too Promised Land. Read Article
The first Muslim president? Causes and consequences of the belief that Barack Obama is a Muslim
31 May 2010
by David Smith
This draft paper uses data from the 2008 ANES panel study to explore the surprisingly widespread belief that Barack Obama is a Muslim. David Smith examines two main causal mechanisms: anti-Obama predispositions caused by Republican Party ID and implicit racial bias, which would have created a good pre-existing “fit” for belief in the Muslim rumour, and lack of political knowledge, which would have increased the Muslim rumour’s plausibility. Read Paper
2009 Annual Report
14 May 2010
Read about the Centre's achievements during 2009 in our Annual Report. Read Report
Investing in Children: Changes in Parental Spending on Children, 1972 to 2007
31 March 2010
by Dr Sabino Kornrich and Professor Frank Furstenberg
Parental spending on children is often presumed to be both one of the main ways parents invest in children and one of the main reasons children from wealthier households are more advantaged than children from poorer households. Given increasing income inequality, pressures to invest in children have likely grown over time. To track the extent of parental spending on children over time, we make use of the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how spending on children has changed over the period from the early 1970s to the late 2000s. We find that spending increased substantially over the period in large part because parents’ spending on education increased substantially. Increases in expenditures have been particularly sharp among those near the top of the income distribution and the college-educated, while the share of income spent has increased sharply among those near the bottom of the income distribution as they attempt to maintain spending in the face of declining incomes. Read Paper
VIDEOS & INTERVIEWS
The first black president may be the exception that proves the rule of a racially divided United States, says Professor Kevin Gaines.
Dr Mark Geiger discusses the previously unknown financial conspiracy which funded guerrillas during the Civil War.
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