Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center

2005 Levitt Fellows

• John Adams '06 with Frank Anechiarico
  "Consolidating Local Government:  A Viable Cost-cutting Measure for Onondaga County?"


• Tamim Akiki '08 with Paul Hagstrom
  "Do home country experiences influence economic outcomes of immigrants in the United States?"


• Elizabeth Debraggio '07 with Paul Hagstrom
  "September 11 and the Effect on Immigrant Composition and Wages"


• Alexandra Field '06 with Alan Cafruny
  "Franco-German Relations After the Iraq War"


• Qi Ge '06 with Derek Jones
  "Determinants of Firm Performance: Evidence from Panel Data for Bulgaria, Russia and the Baltic Republics"


• Ernesto Medina Gomez '06 with Erol Balkan
  "Have NGOs and anti-globalization activists helped the poor? A study of the impact on the poor of World Bank projects and transnational protest"


• Jason Hecht '06 with Alan Cafruny
  "Unstable Ground: The Implications and Potential Consequences of Germany's Defection from the Stability and Growth Pact"


• Lindsay Martin '07 with Jenny Irons and Rob Martin
  "Forbidden Words: Speech Codes on America's Campuses"


• Diana Mastrocola '06 with Steve Ellingson
  "The provision of social services for girls in Utica's non-profit sector, using Girls, Inc. as a case study"


• Peter Mucha '06 with David Rivera
  "Putin's Past and Russia's Future: Putin's career in the KGB and Russian Politics"


• Brendan O'Brien '07 with Sharon Rivera
  "Ethnicity and Democracy in Ukraine"


• Yejun Qian '08 with Cheng Li
  "Behind the Poisonous Electronic Waste Trade: An Analysis of Policy Incentives of U.S. E-waste Export to China"


• Caitlin Rochford '06 with Alan Cafruny
  "Foreign energy use and its connections to potential changes in domestic energy policies"


• David Turchin '06 with Steve Orvis""
  "Agricultural Subsidies: U.S. cotton subsidies and the plight of Western Africa"