Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism
Authoritarian populists have disrupted politics in many societies, as exemplified by Donald Trump in the U.S. and Brexit in the UK.
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Singapore 50 years ago, and now: An Asian middle way?
A Harvard professor with a long acquaintance with Singapore reflects on its socialist roots and says it should continue to show the world a middle way.
Lessons from Estonia on Digital Government
What Canada can learn from a tiny country that devised a coordinated, efficient system to serve its citizens using what’s called platform government.
Privacy of Digital Government Services
Protecting Democracy in an Era of Cyber Information War
The early years of the Internet were marked by a libertarian optimism about its decentralizing and democratizing effects.
The Trump Administration Is Making a Mockery of the Supreme Court
Two years ago this week, President Trump signed an executive order banning travelers from a number of Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. The fallout has been dire.
Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives.
The First Decade of Open Data Has Been a Win — but Not for the Reasons You Think
When data.gov launched in May of 2009, the site seemed to fulfill a vision of openness and rebuilding trust that defined President Obama’s first electoral campaign.
Varieties of Populist Parties
Can parties such as the Swedish Democrats, the Jobbik Movement for a Better Hungary, the UK Independence Party, and the Italian Lega Nord all be classified consistently as part of the same family?
When Deliberation Produces Persuasion rather than Polarization: Measuring and modeling Small Group Dynamics in a Field Experiment
This article proposes a new statistical method to measure persuasion within small groups, and applies this approach to a large-scale randomized deliberative experiment.
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