If Nobody Knows Your Iran Policy, Does It Even Exist?
What is the Trump administration’s objective with Iran?
Research
Paradoxes in Collaborative Governance: Investigating the Real-Life Dynamics of Multi-Agency Collaborations Using a Quasi-Experimental, Action-Research Approach
The literature suggests that collaborative governance efforts typically face three types of challenges: substantive problem-solving challenges, collaborative process challenges and multi-relational ac
Electoral Integrity in the 2018 American Elections
This report provides an assessment of the performance of all 50 states + DC in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, compared with the 2016 contest.
Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia
This paper investigates how elite capture affects the welfare gains from targeted government transfer programs in Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite i
Bias and Judging
How do we know whether judges of different backgrounds are biased?
Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy
Many companies are protecting themselves against “climate risk”—the damage they might suffer from heat waves, flooding, and other effects of global climate change.
Recent U.S. Economic Performance and Prospects for Future Growth
The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first aim of the paper is to organize historical growth accounts in a new way that highlights the role of educational intensity in U.S. economic growth.
The Stability of Student Ratings of Teacher Instructional Practice: Examining the One-Year Stability of the 7cs Composite
In this study, we examine the year-to-year teacher-level stability of the Tripod 7Cs composite, a widely used measure of student perceptions of teaching effectiveness.
vMOBilize: Gamifying Civic Learning and Political Engagement in a Classroom Context
This study presents the results of a quasi-experiment (N?=?254) conducted over the course of ten weeks in Spring 2016 to assess the effectiveness of a game platform designed to facilitate political en
The Geopolitics of Information
Information is now the world’s most consequential and contested geopolitical resource.
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