Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality
Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class.
Research
On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World
On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century.
How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing
How do judges’ previous professional experiences affect case outcomes?
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles, even in sensitive applications like national security.
Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate.
Public Procurement in Law and Practice
We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the discretion of the procuring entities.
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks.
"Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists:" How Family History Shapes Immigration Policymaking
Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies?
The Limits of Ban-the-Box Legislation
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB).
Identifying and Measuring Excessive and Discriminatory Policing
We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and limits to regulatory interventions.
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