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Exploring the Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts
A survey asked gun policy researchers, advocates, and congressional staffers who work on gun issues for their views on policies ranging from weapon bans to stand-your-ground laws. Regardless of where they stood, they were not so dissimilar in what they thought gun policies should be trying to accomplish.
Mar 7, 2022
Q&A
A New Approach to Fighting Synthetic Opioids: Q&A with David Luckey and Jayme Fuglesten
The opioid crisis isn't just about drug policy or law. It involves national security, homeland security, intelligence, diplomacy, supply chain issues, and cryptocurrency. Drawing on RAND's expertise across all those areas, the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking delivered a plan, a call to action about what it's going to take to save lives.
Apr 26, 2022

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Commentary
State Gun Regulations Are a Messy Patchwork. The Supreme Court's Bruen Decision Won't Help
The Supreme Court's decision may not actually narrow the policy gap between states sharply divided over their approach to regulating guns. Rather, its result may not look very different than what we have today—a patchwork of laws that often reflect political and policy demands of individual states.
Aug 22, 2022
Report
What Policy Changes Could Help Save Lives from Illicit Synthetic Opioids Overdose?
In this recording of a July 2022 virtual event, experts discuss findings from the final report by the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking, and recommendations to reduce the number of lives lost to illicit synthetic opioids.
Aug 18, 2022
Commentary
How Policies That Punish Pregnant Women Backfire
There is overwhelming evidence and consensus from the medical and public health communities that supportive approaches are what help pregnant women with substance use disorders. Unfortunately, the overturning of Roe v. Wade has opened the door for more policies that police and punish women rather than these solutions that can save lives.
Aug 2, 2022
Commentary
New Legislation May Not Be Enough to Counter Chinese Interference in British Universities
There is alarming evidence of growing Chinese espionage and influence in UK universities that could threaten UK national security and academic freedoms. Three complementary initiatives could increase university researchers' awareness of the potential risks of collaborating with certain Chinese partners.
Jul 8, 2022
Tool
The RAND State Firearm Law Database
As part of the Gun Policy in America initiative, RAND developed a longitudinal data set of state and District of Columbia firearm laws from 1979 to 2022 to support improved analysis and understanding of the effects of gun laws.
Jun 28, 2022
Commentary
The Gun Laws That Work, and the Gun Laws That Don't
Are certain gun laws and regulations likely to improve or worsen public safety? At a time when many Americans are searching for solutions to the country's intolerably high rates of gun violence, social scientists can help provide answers.
May 27, 2022
Dissertation
Responding to Urban Innovation: The Case of E-Scooters in Los Angeles County
Builds upon existing frameworks for how policymakers respond to innovations by considering the arrival and subsequent policy response to a recent iteration of the platform economy, shared electric scooters
May 18, 2022
Multimedia
Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking
This video provides an overview of the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking, including its purpose, research, and findings.
May 3, 2022
Visualization
Lessons Map: An overview of five case studies in the field of early childhood development
This Lessons Map is an aid to navigating five case studies produced by RAND Europe for the Bernard van Leer Foundation on efforts to make changes at scale in the area of early childhood development.
Apr 7, 2022
Journal Article
Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking: Technical Appendixes
These technical appendixes present the in-depth information and analyses that informed the findings and recommendations contained in the Commission's final report.
Feb 7, 2022
Journal Article
Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking: Initial Report
This initial report describes how the Commission planned to conduct the research and analysis leading to its final report.
Feb 7, 2022
Journal Article
Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking: Final Report
This final report describes items involving the illegal manufacturing and trafficking of synthetic opioids.
Feb 7, 2022
Commentary
Temporary Safety-Net Policies Prevented Mass Insurance Loss During the Pandemic
Although it provided a foundation, the ACA alone could not have absorbed the effects of the pandemic's sudden job losses on health care coverage. Temporary expansions to the safety net enacted by Congress also were necessary to stem coverage loss. As the pandemic continues, policymakers will want to keep safety-net provisions as available policy options.
Dec 13, 2021
Commentary
Green Light for Cannabis Legalisation in Germany Is Not a Clear-Cut Decision
The new “traffic light” coalition in Germany recently agreed to regulate the sale of cannabis to adults for recreational purposes in licensed shops. International experience has shown that great care is needed in how cannabis policy is shaped.
Dec 6, 2021
News Release
Wide Disagreement Remains Among U.S. Gun Policy Experts; Five Policies Show Less Disagreement
Wide disagreement remains among U.S. experts who study gun policy issues, with differing opinions about how much individual policies may reduce gun violence and other harms caused by firearms. Researchers found there were generally two ideological camps—a restrictive group (who favor more-restrictive regulatory approaches to gun ownership and use) and a permissive group (who favor more-permissive regulatory approaches to gun ownership and use).
Nov 30, 2021
Tool
What Are the Predicted Effects of U.S. Gun Policies, According to Experts?
As part of the RAND Gun Policy in America initiative, experts with diverse gun policy views were surveyed on how they predicted specific gun laws would affect outcomes, such as suicide, mass shootings, and individuals' privacy. This expert-opinion tool shows where these experts agree and disagree.
Nov 30, 2021
Report
The Magnitude and Sources of Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts: Second Edition
This report describes combined results from two fieldings of a survey of gun policy experts designed to identify areas of agreement and whether disagreements stem from assumptions about the policies' effects or from differences in policy objectives.
Nov 30, 2021
Commentary
Nuclear Strategists Know How Dangerous the Debt Fight Is
Nuclear-war strategists' work offers a warning for Congress: The more times a game is played, the more treacherous it becomes, because when both sides believe catastrophe will always be averted in the end, each behaves more rashly. In the debt-ceiling dispute, the United States could end up defaulting precisely because each side keeps waiting for the other to blink.
Nov 29, 2021

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