Georgetown Public Policy Review

Established in 1995, the Georgetown Public Policy Review is the McCourt School of Public Policy’s nonpartisan, graduate student-run publication. Our mission is to provide an outlet for innovative new thinkers and established policymakers to offer perspectives on the politics and policies that shape our nation and our world.

Corruption Makes Brazil Think Twice: Lula Faces Runoff

  • October 23, 2006

by Jake Ward On October 1, presidential hopeful Geraldo Alckmin achieved what analysts earlier had predicted to be virtually impossible, squeezing out a second-place victory in preliminary elections.  Now, Alckmin, of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, faces a runoff against incumbent…

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Defending the Right to be “Heroin-Chic”

  • October 23, 2006

by Joanna Mikulski Madrid’s fashion week, the “Pasarela Cibeles,” caused an uproar in the fashion community last month by banning ultra-thin models from its highly-photographed runways. Organizers of the event and the Madrid regional government imposed the weight and size restrictions…

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