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Independent Streams (Week of March 28th)

This is the first post in our weekly round-up of policy-relevant reads and IPPSR-connected research (inspired by John Kingdon's theory of policymaking).

Problems:

Policy:

Politics:

  • Rep. Curtis Hertel Sr., Democratic co-Speaker with Republican former Rep. Paul Hillegonds, has died. He and Hillegonds were featured speakers at IPPSR’s Legislative Leadership Program in 2014.
  • Matt Grossmann discusses how most polls missed the close Michigan Sanders-Clinton race at Detroit NewsVoxFiveThirtyEight, and Vice
  • Matt Grossmann’s research on party asymmetry discussed by Paul Krugman and Brad Delong and in The New Yorker.

We welcome link submissions from IPPSR affiliates and alumni.