CAPPP Fellows at the Research Symposium

Our Fabulous Fellows recently presented the results of nine months of learning and labor at the Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Symposium.  Impressive group! Andreas Redd, Fighting for Approval: US Foreign Installments’ Contribution to Anti-Americanism Catherine Ticzon, Cultural Attitudes and Voting: How Close Ties to Asian Culture Affect Asian American Political Participation … Continue reading

Visualizing Lawmaking: The End of School House Rock?

Most of us learned (in school or by watching School House Rock) that members of Congress dream up solutions to problems in society, introduce them as bills and then struggle to advance those bills through a maze of procedural hurdles to become law. Of course, this civics portrayal of lawmaking … Continue reading

Professor Becca Thorpe’s recent book wins two national awards!

How is it that the United States—a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power—came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high … Continue reading

Using plagiarism detection methods to trace the origins of the Affordable Care Act

John Wilkerson (Professor, CAPPP Director), Nicholas Stramp (Graduate Fellow), and David Smith (Assistant Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University) are using computer science text reuse methods commonly used to match genetic sequences or to detect plagiarism to follow policy ideas through the legislative process. One of the cases they’ve … Continue reading

Online Teaching Tools

LegSim - A student-run congressional simulation for HS and college students.
LegEx - A data-driven discovery tool for learning about how bills become law.

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