Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition.
Research
At War and at Home: The Consequences of US Women Combat Casualties
What are the consequences of women dying in combat? We study how women fighting on the frontlines of the military affects public attitudes toward (1) military conflict and (2) women’s equality.
Driving Turnout: The Effect of Car Ownership on Electoral Participation
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation.
Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy?
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F.
Accountability for the Economy at All Levels of Government in United States Elections
Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability.
Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia is a mosque again. Do Turkish citizens want Erdogan to restore the caliphate?
This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of Muslim worship.
Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus’s Impacts on Climate Change Policy
The seminal contributions of William Nordhaus to scholarship on the long-run macroeconomics of global climate change are clear.
Review Essay: The Prince
America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II.
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