Featured Publications

What are the most pressing global challenges of our times? What is good governance? What do we mean by shared public purpose? These are some of the questions we ask at the McCourt School, for every policy topic, across every region of the world. Our community of faculty, researchers, practitioners, and students are actively working towards shaping policy outcomes and improving people’s lives.

Featured Research

Woman enters a polling location inside a mall to cast a ballot in the November 8, 2022 midterm election while two other women examine a ballot drop box.

Discovery & Impact, Faculty Research

Bringing AI to the Ballot Box: What Election Officials Need to Know

How can artificial intelligence transform election administration while preserving public trust? Recently the McCourt School partnered with The Elections Group and Discourse Labs to tackle this critical question at a groundbreaking workshop. In this article, two McCourt School experts gives us 5 insights from the workshop.

September 11, 2025

Six Faculty Publications

Faculty Publications, General News

Six new books by McCourt School faculty: From memoir to murder mystery

Democracy Vouchers and the Promise of Fairer Elections in Seattle Jennifer A. Heerwig, associate professor of sociology at Stony Brook University, and Brian J. McCabe, a professor of…

November 25, 2024

Student planting a garden

Faculty Publications, General News

McCourt researcher publishes new book on Christianity’s role in protecting the environment

McCourt School Professor Gaël Giraud’s latest book, Composing a World in Common: A Political Theology of the Anthropocene, takes a theological deep dive into the role of Christianity as an…

October 27, 2022

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