Does Public Sector Control Reduce Variance in School Quality?
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality?
Research
Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Normative Innovations and Implementation Challenges
Business and human rights became an increasingly prominent feature on the international agenda in the 1990s.
Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India
A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.
Do States Delegate Shameful Violence to Militias? Patterns of Sexual Violence in Recent Armed Conflicts
Existing research maintains that governments delegate extreme, gratuitous, or excessively brutal violence to militias.
Voter Suppression or Voter Fraud in the 2014 US Elections?
During recent years, U.S. states have often diverged by adopting either more lenient or stricter electoral procedures.
They Can Take It If They Want It
What limits should be placed on the public power to take private property? Ten years ago, when the Supreme Court heard the case of Kelo v.
On the Fast Track: The Spread of Gender Quota Policies for Elected Office
What has driven the worldwide adoption and subsequent revision of gender quota policies?
The Great Divergence: The Death Penalty in the United States and the Failure of Abolition in Transatlantic Perspective
This essay analyzes the persistence of the death penalty in the United States--a topic that has long been the subject of debate among legal scholars, social scientists, and historians.
Extinguishing the Fires This Time
David Cameron is Abusing Magna Carta in Abolishing our Rights
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