Strategic Growth Area: Policy
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The Policy SGA is a dynamic hub with spokes, focused on undergraduate through doctoral education, research, and scholarship. The policy hub brings together teams of experts with different, but complementary specializations and comprehensive policy expertise in key areas. The spokes of the hub connect to and integrate this expertise within and across the destination areas to translate scholarship to practice through the complex decision-making processes of policy making, implementation, and evaluation.
Recent Submissions
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Rethinking US Policy Toward Iran: A Forum
(Middle East Report, 2020-05-27)While US relations with Iran have been adversarial since the 1979 Islamic revolution, President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) in 2018 and his belligerent implementation of a “maximum pressure” ... -
VTIPG newsletter, October 2020
(Virginia Tech, 2020-10)This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities in IPG, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a letter from the director. -
Catawba Sustainability Center and Catawba Hospital Renewable Energy Site Planning Process Study
(Virginia Tech, 2020-09-29)The transdisciplinary Renewable Energy Facilities Siting Project produced a white paper outlining their proof-of-concept using a case study from the Catawba Valley. -
What's the Big Deal? Global Trends and Movements Shaping Higher Ed
(Virginia Tech, 2019-10-23)For the last two decades, research institutions have been buying research the same way consumers have been buying television: in big bundles. And like big cable packages, these bundles have become bloated with content ... -
Policy Brief: Veterans’ Health Care In Rural Virginia
(Virginia Rural Health Association, 2011-12)The Commonwealth of Virginia is home to an estimated 748,3451 military veterans, ranging in age from centenarian, pre‐World War II veterans, to teenage veterans recently returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation ... -
Fragile Foundations and Enduring Challenges: Essays on Democratic Politics and Governance
(VT Publishing, 2019-05-22)In this volume of timely essays, Max O. Stephenson Jr. offers unique insight into the state of politics and policymaking in the United States. Covering the period 2010-2018, his essays chronicle a growing crisis in American ... -
International Refugee Research: Evidence for Smart Policy
(Virginia Tech. School of Public and International Affairs, 2018-09)The Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs Refugee Research Project was prompted by discussions among institutional partners in the aftermath of the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe. With the number of ... -
Virginia Tech Institute for Policy & Governance Quarterly Newsletter, July 2018
(Virginia Tech, 2018-07)This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities in IPG, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a director's letter. -
Interactional dynamics of same-sex marriage legislation in the United States
(The Royal Society, 2017)Understanding how people form opinions and make decisions is a complex phenomenon that depends on both personal practices and interactions. Recent availability of real-world data has enabled quantitative analysis of opinion ... -
Addressing the Impact of Housing for Virginia’s Economy
(Governor’s Housing Conference, 2017-11)In October 2014, Governor McAuliffe issued Executive Order (EO) 32, “Advancing Virginia’s Housing Policy,” to “identify and implement actions to enable quality, affordable housing, which will strengthen families and ... -
Global Systems Science (GSS) DA and Policy SGA (PSGA) Synergies and Opportunities Workshop
(Virginia Tech, 2017-09-29)The goals of this day-long event, held on September 29, 2017, were to identify areas for collaborative synergy and cooperation between the GSS DA and PSGA and showcase a model for future DA/SGA collaboration and shared innovation. -
Virginia Tech Institute for Policy & Governance Quarterly Newsletter, April 2018
(Virginia Tech, 2018-04)This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities in IPG, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a director's letter. -
Policy Strategic Growth Area 2018 Research Forum
(Virginia Tech, 2018-04-19)The goal of the half day 2018 Spring Research Forum, held on April 19 at the Inn at Virginia Tech, was to showcase the Policy SGA's research and planning projects and provide an opportunity for participants to engage with ... -
The Dilemmas of Citizen Inclusion in Urban Planning and Governance to Enable a 1.5 °C Climate Change Scenario
(Cogitatio Press, 2018-04-24)Cities around the world are facilitating ambitious and inclusive action on climate change by adopting participatory and collaborative planning approaches. However, given the major political, spatial, and scalar interdependencies ... -
Environmental Remediation to Address Childhood Lead Poisoning Epidemic due to Artisanal Gold Mining in Zamfara, Nigeria
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2016-09)Background: From 2010 through 2013, integrated health and environmental responses addressed an unprecedented epidemic lead poisoning in Zamfara State, northern Nigeria. Artisanal gold mining caused widespread contamination ... -
National, Regional, and State-Level Estimates of Returns to Scale in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-05)The effectiveness of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in achieving its goals at the national, regional, and state level is unknown. Using US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data from all states and ... -
Restoring the Fallen Blue Sky: Management Issues and Environmental Legislation for Lake Sevan, Armenia
(UC Davis School of Law, 2005)Armenia is a small, landlocked country in the Southern Caucasus Mountains. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations,¹ yet a very young country. It was formed as one of the Newly Independent States (NIS) following the ... -
Effects of Government Spending on Research Workforce Development: Evidence from Biomedical Postdoctoral Researchers
(PLOS, 2015-05-01)We examine effects of government spending on postdoctoral researchers’ (postdocs) productivity in biomedical sciences, the largest population of postdocs in the US. We analyze changes in the productivity of postdocs before ... -
Recent trends in the U.S. Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (BSSR) workforce
(PLOS, 2017-02-06)While behavioral and social sciences occupations comprise one of the largest portions of the "STEM" workforce, most studies of diversity in STEM overlook this population, focusing instead on fields such as biomedical or ... -
Virginia Tech Institute for Policy & Governance Quarterly Newsletter, January 2018
(Virginia Tech, 2018-01)This quarterly newsletter provides updates on activities in IPG, including news, student and faculty accomplishments, and a director's letter.
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