Tiger GPS: Government and Public Service Blog

SANCTUARY CITIES? by Ed Pearce

As we recognize throughout our policy study, there are usually clear separations in political views with policy agendas. Views on immigration are no different. A June 2015 PEW Research Center trends study found that 71% of Republicans say immigrants in the U.S. are making crime worse, compared to just 34% of Democrats. The same view […]

THE SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION OF THE LGBT POLICY LANDSCAPE by Jon Luttrell

“Policy is not made once and for all; it is made and remade endlessly. Policy-making is a process of successive approximation to some desired objectives in which what is desired itself continues to change under reconsideration” – Charles E. Lindblom In the formative days of our country, the notion of same-sex marriage would have been as […]

RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY, IN SCIENCE’S CLOTHING by Amber Mann

“I ask the chair, you know what this is? It’s a snowball, just from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out. Very unseasonal,” James Inhofe, Republican senator from Oklahoma, said shortly before he infamously threw a snowball in the Senate Chamber (as reported by Slate in February 2015). Inhofe’s performance that day was in the context […]