Publications

SSRN

1994
Chapter

Traditions of Centrality, Authority and Management in Modern China's Foreign Relations

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: History; Governance Controls; International Relations; Policy; China

1990
Book

Perestroika for America: Restructuring U.S. Business-Government Relations for Competitiveness in the World Economy

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Government and Politics; Restructuring; Relationships; Competition; Economy; Russia; United States

19 Feb 2016
Working Paper Summaries

‘Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'? Organizational Design and Identity Change at the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin; Public Administration

13 May 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality

Keywords: by Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan Rouen, and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato

February 1980 (Revised November 1981)
Case

Work of a Regulatory Agency: The EPA and Toxic Substances

By: J. Ronald Fox and Lynne O. Cabot

Keywords: Government Administration; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States

March 1978 (Revised December 1983)
Case

Founding of the European Economic Community

By: Bruce R. Scott and Audrey T. Sproat

Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; International Relations; Economy; Europe

2024
Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song

Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry

SSRN

December 2016 (Revised October 2018)
Case

U.S. Digital Service

By: Mitchell Weiss, Nick Sinai and Michael Norris

Mikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certain about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s Government... View Details

Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Haley Van Dyck; Mikey Dickerson; United States Digital Service; Digital Services; Innovation Teams; Scaling Innovation; 18F; Presidential Innovation Fellows; Government Digital Service; Mike Bracken; Innovation Fellowships; Entrepreneurship; Government Administration; Innovation and Management; United States; United Kingdom

Educators

2016
Working Paper

Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Innate Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice are shown to differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. A large share of respondents, and in some cases a large majority, resist the full equalization... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Attitudes; Taxation; Theory; United States

February 2016
Case

Debt and Democracy: The New York Constitutional Convention of 1846

By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins

On September 23, 1846, delegates to New York State's constitutional convention prepared to vote on a proposal that its principal proponent, Michael Hoffman, conceded would be “a serious change in our form of government.” The proposal would place tight restrictions on... View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Governance; Laws and Statutes; Government and Politics; History; New York (state, US)

Educators

March 2012
Article

Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Matthew Weinzierl

The United States is on a glide path to fiscal disaster, with experts projecting that the federal government will take in far less money than it spends-indefinitely. Our current fiscal policy is eroding competitiveness in several ways, and business conditions in the... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Government and Politics; Financial Crisis; Policy; Competition; Public Administration Industry; United States

January 2010 (Revised January 2013)
Course Overview Note

Introduction to Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE)

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; International Relations; Trade

2009
Book

Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem—and the Consumer-Driven Cure

By: Regina Herzlinger

A best seller in its category, with many printings. It has been recognized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of the books that made a difference in public policy in 2008. View Details

Keywords: Policy; Government Administration; Health Care and Treatment; United States

2004
Book

Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Keywords: Health; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; United States; Germany

Article

Foreclosure with Incomplete Information

By: Lucy White

Keywords: Behavior; Decision Making; Research; Government Legislation; Society

August 1981
Case

West Point: The Cheating Incident (B)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

A review of the activities following the expose of the cheating incident at West Point and leading up to the Secretary of the Army's decision on the situation. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Ethics; Judgments; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry

Educators