Judith Kelley, Senior Associate Dean and Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke Sanford School of Public Policy is pictured on Tuesday, September 13, 2016. Kelley’s Big Idea is Scorecard Diplomacy applied to driving behavior in international relations, especially in the human trafficking genre.
For Judith Kelley the acronym GPA means more than “grade point average,” the term most familiar to her students. She also thinks of “global performance assessments” — a public measure of performance that nations, nongovernmental organizations and private entities use to attract attention, shape debate, and—they hope—change behavior.
Kelley’s studies how international actors influence domestic politics.
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