Can Political Affirmative Action for Women Reduce Gender Bias?
While women have the legal right to equal participation in politics in almost every country around the world, they remain vastly underrepresented in local and national politics.
Research
Service 2.0 and Cities
Champions of service have every reason to be upbeat going into this presidential election, in which both parties are promoting expanded government support for civic engagement.
The Impact of the Internet on Political Activism: Evidence from Europe
The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House
No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort.
Social Policy and Collective Action: Unemployed Workers, Community Associations and Protest in Argentina
Unemployed and informal workers seem an unlikely source of large-scale collective action in Latin America.
Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance
Preventing Violent Conflict
Preserving Privacy by De-Identifying Facial Images
In the context of sharing video surveillance data, a significant threat to privacy is face recognition software, which can automatically identify known people, such as from a database of drivers' lice
Still Life
The Radical Reader: A Documentary Anthology of the American Radical Tradition
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