Anna Meyerrose will research and write a book examining the extent to which international integration and efforts to promote democratic development have contributed to democratic backsliding in countries such as Poland and Hungary.
Steven Wilson will research and write a book that examines Massachusetts’s nearly thirty-year effort to reform its public schools, assesses how the success of those reforms is being challenged by interest groups and ideological movements, and discusses how policymakers might react to those challenges.
Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim will research and write a book exploring how policymakers can make school reforms durable in the face of political pressures. They will examine how effective school reform efforts implemented in a variety of large urban districts have been challenged and often undermined by political pressures and assess strategies adopted by some of these districts to harness political forces to sustain school reform measures.