NYU Wagner

Dr. Paul Light, a Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner, recently completed a national survey measuring public confidence in charitable organizations, detecting a downward trajectory.

The survey results are included in the April 3, 2008 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, along with an article summarizing the read more...

Microfinance's global acclaim has been fueled, in part, by anecdotes about cash-strapped micro-entrepreneurs propelled out of poverty by bits of extra cash in the form of microloans. But research by NYU Wagner's Professor of Public Policy and Economics Jonathan Morduch shows that little actually is known about the magnitude of very poor people read more...

Dennis Smith, NYU Wagner Associate Professor for Public Policy, was recently interviewed about New York City policing and his study of the New York Police Department's "Operation Impact" by the BBC and, separately, by a Brazilian news program (go to link below, click video box No. 2, then click new read more...

Paul C. Light, Paulette Goddard Profesor of Public Service at NYU Wagner, gave the 2007 Elmer Staats Lecture at the National Academy of Public Administration. Professor Light delivered a paper titled "A Government Ill Executed: The Depletion of the Federal Service," built from his research for a forthcoming book, due out in May, 2008. read more...

NYU Wagner's Brademas Center for the Study of Congress held a well-attended and timely forum Dec. 14, 2007, on how the U.S. Congress can come to grips with looming defense issues such as the War on Terror, changes in force structure, Department of Defense reform, and base closings. The question addressed by the panel read more...

Linda M. Spock, Visiting Practitioner at the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, has produced a new report documenting and synthesizing the experience of a dozen transit agencies that have implemented or tried to implement programmed fare increases -- those that occur on a regular and/or inflation-related basis as opposed to an read more...

A front-page article in The New York Times on Oct. 15, 2007, focused on the federal government's growing reliance on interim leaders to run Washington agencies, and turned to NYU Wagner's Professor of Public Service Paul Light for analysis. "You've got more vacancies now than a hotel in a hurricane season," said Dr. Light, who read more...