Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Privacy, Personal Data, and Surveillance
Privacy has always been one of the most precarious rights of American life because it lacks clear protections in the U.S. Constitution.
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Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere
A healthy democracy requires a deliberative public sphere—an informal space for citizens to gain information and communicate with one another in order to detect problems, bring them to public view, su
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Hate Crimes
The Department of Justice began prosecuting federal hate crimes cases after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Thus, the literature on hate crime is new, though rapidly growing.
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Religious Freedom
The complicated relationship of religion and government predates the founding of the United States.
The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private Sector: Public-Private Collaboration in China and the United States
The governments of China and the United States - despite profound differences in history, culture, economic structure, and political ideology - both engage the private sector in the pursuit of public
Partisan Alignment Increases Voter Turnout: Evidence from Redistricting
Partisan gerrymandering and polarization have created an electoral landscape where Americans increasingly reside in congressional districts dominated by one party.
Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the United States: Gun Rights and Public Safety
In March 2018, hundreds of thousands of young people walked out of school and marched on their local statehouses and on the U.S.
Soft power: the evolution of a concept
In this paper, I respond to the editors request that I look back on the concept of soft power that I first published in 1990.
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Starting with the Nixon administration in the early 1970s, and gaining steam throughout the next decade, the prevailing view on criminal justice was that “tough on crime laws make crime rates go down.
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Immigration
The United States is a nation of immigrants. For centuries, waves of migrants and refugees have arrived in America seeking economic opportunity or religious freedom.
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