Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
Two members of the La Follette School’s Board of Visitors took advantage of a one-to-one matching gift from Ab and Nancy Nicholas to boost funding for students pursuing master’s degrees in public affairs at UW-Madison.
This study for Wisconsin's Bureau of Assisted Living (BAL) has addressed the question of how to promote and maintain effectiveness in ensuring regulatory compliance and resident protection under such conditions.
Upon release from prison, persons convicted of an OWI offense are required to complete treatment before having their driver’s license reinstated.
This report highlights the importance of income volatility and discusses policies, programs, and products that can mitigate income volatility for low-income individuals.
After years of lab work, Debaki Ale was ready to become more directly involved in energy and environmental policy. She enrolled in the La Follette School’s Master of International Public Affairs degree and its energy analysis and policy certificate programs, from which she plans to graduate this spring. The programs build on the master of …
La Follette students contributed to the development of the framework used in this paper’s analysis.
Rob Stupar turned to public policy for graduate school because no matter which professional field he considered as an undergraduate, he felt that there was no better way to help solve national problems than through public policy. “During my undergraduate career I was exposed to many different perspectives through experiences in the corporate world and …
This report analyzes the importance of urban areas, subnational policies that promote economic growth and reduce poverty, and the merits of providing grants at the city level.
The authors predict the costs and benefits of expanding programs that provide drug and alcohol treatment and diversion from incarceration for non-violent criminal offenders in Wisconsin, which can alleviate overcrowding in corrections facilities and ease budget constraints.
This report designs a package of construction mitigation services that the City of Milwaukee could implement to limit the negative impact construction projects have on surrounding businesses.