• Credit Ratings & Climate Change Resilience: A Framework for Assessing Airports, Seaports, & Toll Roads 

  Brown-Neuhaus, Virginia Gale; Harloe, Christopher; Kwekam, Gilles David; Lu, George; Quenga, Joseph; Snyder, William (2022-05)

  This report provides a framework for incorporating climate change resilience in Fitch Ratings’ credit rating assessments of airports, seaports, and toll roads. We build on current transportation resilience practices and ...
• Artificial Neural Networks in Public Policy: Towards an Analytical Framework 

  Lee, Joshua (2020-04)

  Interviews created during the course of research for the dissertation "Artificial Neural Networks in Public Policy: Towards an Analytical Framework."
• Recommendations to Reduce Sexual Violence Rates in Haitian IDP Camps 

  Bird, Olivia Marianne; Emery, Maggie; Shaw, Megan; Santosa, Lisa (New Voices in Public Policy, 2011)

  In January 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake tore through the area surrounding Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, destroying much of the city’s already fragile infrastructure. Over 222,570 people were killed and 300,572 ...
• Injustice for All? Why Congress Should Require Criminal Intent for Criminal Convictions 

  Hildebrandt, Rebekah (New Voices in Public Policy, 2011)
• The European Sovereign Debt Crisis: Responses to the Financial Crisis 

  Sandoval, Lazaro; Beltran, Erika; Ulziikhutag, Sodgerel; Zorigt, Temuun (New Voices in Public Policy, 2011)

  The ongoing European sovereign debt crisis continues to shake financial markets and the Eurozone. The International Monetary Fund and the European Union (EU) have acted swiftly to diminish panic and uncertainty by ...
• Where Are the Doctors? Primary Care Physician Shortage in the United States 

  Morris, Taylor E. (New Voices in Public Policy, 2011)

  The United States is experiencing a trend that may leave many Americans without primary care services. Medical students prefer entering specialties instead of primary care. Combined with previously set primary care ...
• Editing Biosecurity: Needs and Strategies for Governing Genome Editing, Executive Summary 

  Kirkpatrick, Jesse; Koblentz, Gregory D.; Palmer, Megan J.; Perello, Edward; Relman, David A.; Denton, Sarah W (George Mason University, 2018-12)
• Editing Biosecurity: Needs and Strategies for Governing Genome Editing 

  Kirkpatrick, Jesse; Koblentz, Gregory D.; Palmer, Megan J.; Perello, Edward; Relman, David A.; Denton, Sarah W (George Mason University, 2018-12)
• Biotechnology Risk Assessment: Landscape and Options 

  Kirkpatrick, Jesse; Koblentz, Gregory D.; Palmer, Megan J.; Denton, Sarah W; Tiu, Bruce (George Mason University, 2018-03)
• Biotechnology Risk Assessment: State of the Field 

  Koblentz, Gregory D.; Kirkpatrick, Jesse; Palmer, Megan J.; Denton, Sarah W.; Tiu, Bruce; Kelsey, Kelsey (George Mason University, 2017-12)
• CRISPR Genome Editing: A Technical & Policy Primer 

  Perello, Edward (2018)
• The CRISPR Revolution: Potential Impacts on Global Health Security 

  Watters, Kyle (2018)

  Biotechnology and medicine are constantly battling threats to global health security. Many modern techniques exist for detecting and predicting where outbreaks might occur and between small molecule drugs, like antibiotics, ...
• Gene Drive Technology: The Thing to Fear is Fear Itself 

  Esvelt, Kevin (George Mason University, 2018-12)

  CRISPR gene drive systems have raised concerns due to their ability to spread through wild populations over generations, but the technology is slow, easily detected by sequencing, and readily countered by overwriting ...
• Genome Editing, The Bioeconomy, and Security 

  Carter, Sarah R. (George Mason University, 2018-12)

  The landscape of genome editing technologies, capabilities, and applications is rapidly changing, which creates critical challenges in identifying and addressing biosecurity risks. The commercial opportunities for genome ...
• Police Departments and Crime Status in Virginia Communities: An Assessment from the Citizen Perspective 

  Manheim, Frank T.; Bullock, Tim; Scott, Jahtanya S. (2018-02)

  This report presents the first extensive assessment of crime status and police performance for communities in Virginia. Twenty-four counties and 29 cities were studied for the period 2015 and 2016. Performance was rated ...
• Proper Methodology and Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Slavery Data: An Examination of the Global Slavery Index 

  Guth, Andrew; Anderson, Robyn; Kinnard, Kasey; Tran, Hang (Cogitatio, 2014-11-17)

  The Global Slavery Index aims to, among other objectives, recognize the forms, size, and scope of slavery worldwide as well as the strengths and weaknesses of individual countries. An analysis of the Index’s methods exposes ...
• Migration Studies at a Crossroads: A Critique of Immigration Regime Typologies 

  Boucher, Anna; Gest, Justin (Oxford University Press, 2014-08-22)

  International migration and its scientific examination have reached a crossroads. Today, migrants are pursuing opportunities in new destination societies with growing economies and different forms of governance from ...
• Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions 

  Gest, Justin; Boucher, Anna; Challen, Suzanna; Burgoon, Brian; Thielemann, Eiko; Beine, Michel; McGovern, Patrick; Crock, Mary; Rapoport, Hillel; Hiscox, Michael (John Wiley & Sons, 2014-05-12)

  Academics and policy makers require a better understanding of the variation of policies that regulate global migration, asylum and immigrant naturalization. At present, however, there is no comprehensive cross-national, ...
• Reluctant Pluralists: European Muslims and Essentialist Identities 

  Gest, Justin (Routledge, 2014-07-28)

  An emerging consensus amongst scholars of Muslim political and social identity suggests that Western Muslims live out an anti-essentialist critique of identity construction. Considering this view, this paper examines a ...
• The Washington Consensus 

  Symoniak, Jason D. (2010-12)

  In 1989, John Williamson outlined a set of desirable economic reforms targeted at developing countries that he deemed broadly supported by policymakers in Washington. Dubbed the “Washington Consensus”, it addressed economic ...

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