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Joe Biden’s Domestic Agenda

18 March 2021, 6:00 pm–7:15 pm

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The Centre on US Politics, in collaboration with Policy and Practice, brings you an event examining domestic policy under President Joe Biden.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Abi Turner

Less than two months into his term, President Joe Biden is signing his first major piece of legislation, a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. What are his other domestic priorities, and who are the leading figures in his administration to deliver them? What obstacles does he face in Congress and elsewhere, and can he overcome them? To discuss the prospects for Biden’s domestic policies moving forward, we welcome a dynamic panel of experts: Andra Gillespie (Emory); Michael Hartney (Hoover Institution); Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago); and Colin Provost (CUSP). Julie Norman (CUSP) will moderate.


Speakers:

Andra Gillespie is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University. Gillespie is the author of The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark and Post-Racial America. (NYU Press 2012). Gillespie previously served as a Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar in the Political Science Department at MIT. Before joining the faculty at Emory, Gillespie worked as an analyst for Democratic pollster Mark Mellman. She has appeared on CNN and NPR, and her editorials have been featured in the The Washington Post and Politico. 

Michael T. Hartney is an assistant professor of political science at Boston College and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Hartney's current research focuses on subnational politics and policy making, especially K–12 education policy and, more generally, the workings of US political institutions. His research has been published in leading academic peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Political SciencePerspectives on Politics, and Public Administration Review and has received subsequent media coverage in outlets such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston GlobeEducation Week, and U.S. News and World Report. Prior to academia, Hartney worked as a policy analyst for the National Governors Association.

Casey B. Mulligan is Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He served as Chief Economist of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 2018-2019. Mulligan is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor. He has served as a visiting professor teaching public economics at Harvard University, Clemson University, and the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. Mulligan has written numerous op-eds and blog entries for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and the Chicago Tribune, among others.

Colin Provost is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the MSc in Public Policy at UCL. His research focuses primarily on the design and enforcement of regulatory policy in the United States; much of his research has examined how the behaviour of elected prosecutors (state attorneys general) affects the enforcement of state and federal law and how this in turn affects business regulatory compliance. His research has been published in Governance, Journal of Public Policy, Law and Policy, Political Research Quarterly, Political Psychology, Publius: the Journal of Federalism, Regulation and Governance, State Politics and Policy Quarterly and Review of Policy Research.

Moderator: Julie Norman, UCL Centre on US Politics

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Further information

  • Participation is free but we kindly ask that you register using the link provided.
  • Chat will be disabled for attendees, but if you have a question for the panel, please submit it into the Q&A feature of the webinar. 
  • In the second half of the event, we will select as many questions as possible within the time. You will be given the option to unmute yourself to ask the question. 
  • Attendees will not be able to turn their camera on.
  • The twitter hashtag for this event is: #PolicyandPractice and you can follow us @uclspp 
  • This webinar will be recorded and made available on our podcast platform 'UCL Political Science: Public Events'

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