Research

The Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good supports research and scholarship across a variety of disciplines on subjects pertaining to public policy, citizenship development, and the pursuit of the common good.

Public Policy Resource Bank
On-line source of research materials on public policy, courtesy of the USF Gleeson Library.

Project Public Service, 2003-07
Project Public Service was a comprehensive project of nearly twenty different research activities funded by a Congressionally directed grant administered through the US Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).

Research topics ranged from citizenship development to investigations into specifc policy areas.  Brief descriptions of the projects can be found below:

• Political Ethics Course Development
• Service Learning Conference Attendance, Syllabus and Site Development
• Asian American Civic Engagement Project
• Citizenship Development Research Project
• California Dispute Resolution Institute
• Conflict Resolution Compendium
• Student Science Advisors for the Environment
• Environmental Policy Making in the Internet Era
• Fostering Broadly Based Development
• Community Connections: Bridging the Digital Divide
• Transparency in Government: Making Information Visible to the Common Citizen
• Death Penalty Research Project: Southern States
• Homelessness Partnership
• Media Deregulation and Community Politics