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Vol. 115, Issue 4, Pages 500-505
Trust between citizens and the institutions that govern them is essential for effective policy, especially in public health. Across the world, higher levels of trust in government…
As threats to democracy endanger the rights and freedoms of people around the world, scholars are increasingly interrogating the role that organizations play in shaping democratic…
Elon Musk and his team are endangering Americans in many ways.
Vol. 386, Issue 6719, Pages eadh4764
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments…
Conflict of interest is among the most regulated forms of official behavior. In the United States, the vast bureaucracy of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is almost entirely…
Portland, Oregon recently passed Measure 26-228, which represents some of the most expansive voting reforms by a major American city in recent history. Instead of being elected in…
Vol. 35, Issue 2, Pages 23-39
The world is witnessing a loss of faith in both capitalism and democracy, which seemed nearly unimaginable just a generation ago. Many blame “the other party.” Others blame…
Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When…
Many demands for democratic inclusion rest on a simple yet powerful idea. It's a principle of affected interests. The principle states that all those affected by a collective…
This open access book consists of essays selected from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.’s last three decades of writing and illustrate a variety of perspectives on the nature of power, the role…