Lobby study highlights role of interest groups and obscure public office
In a recent Washington Post column, Professor Susan Webb Yackee and Ph.D. student Simon Haeder outline their findings of lobbying efforts at an obscure regulatory office in the White House, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Newspaper features Yackee, Herd
La Follette School Director Susan Webb Yackee and Professor Pamela Herd are among the College of Letters and Science faculty featured in a special section of the March 22 Wisconsin State Journal.
Turner studies credit unions, consumer protection agency
2008 alum Andrew Turner has completed a study of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and credit unions for the Filene Research Institute, an independent, consumer finance think and do tank.
Weimer, Yackee named faculty fellows
David Weimer and Susan Yackee are the first two Daniel Louis and Genevieve Rustvold Goldy Faculty Fellows.
April 25 symposium to examine health-care reform
Omoluabi improves trade climate in West Africa
Ometere Omoluabi helps West African companies and governments overcome barriers to free trade. Based in Accra, Ghana, the 2008 alum serves as a liaison between the public and private sector to improve the trade and business climate for 15 countries that agreed in 1990 to duty-free trade.