Posts tagged Law and Political Economy Program
Report - End Point or Setback? A Retrospective of the Maine Public Power Ballot Initiative

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan co-authors a report examining why Maine's "Pine Tree Power" initiative failed despite broad support for public ownership, offering strategic lessons on how advocates can overcome corporate spending and messaging to win future public power campaigns.

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Coordinating Market Actors for the Public Good: Competition Policy as the Industrial Policy of Democratic Economic Governance

Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley and industrial policy program manager Audrey Stienon provide insight that to achieve democratic and resilient economies during periods of transition, governments must integrate competition policy into industrial strategy to prevent monopolies, curb corporate resistance to change, and ensure broad, equitable market outcomes.

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