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.

How Data Disaggregation Improves Public Policy, with Professor Amy O’Hara

GPPR Podcast Editor Kharl Reynado (MPP ’23) spoke with Amy O’Hara, Research Professor in the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy. In this podcast, Professor O’Hara addresses data disaggregation and how disaggregated data better informs policy analysis and development. Professor O’Hara also talks about where data originates, how it is collected, […]

Systemic Fraud Behind Dutch Political Upheaval

This time last year, the political climate in the Netherlands was facing utter chaos. In the middle of an ongoing pandemic, the Dutch government resigned due to the mismanagement of large sums of childcare benefit funds. The tax authority had wrongly accused thousands of families, many of which were low-income and immigrants, of fraud and […]

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