Cooperative Procurement: Today’s Contracting Tool, Tomorrow’s Contracting Strategy
Increasingly, governments across the country are turning to cooperative procurement for greater value.
Research
A Tough Call: Understanding Barriers to and Impacts of Women’s Mobile Phone Adoption in India
Today in India, 67% percent of men own mobile phones, but only 33% percent of women do.
‘Change’ Frames and the Mobilization of Social Capital for Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers
When deciding whether to provide job-matching assistance to formerly incarcerated job seekers, which factors do individuals with job information and influence privilege?
Are Testers Also Admitters? Comparing Emergency Physician Resource Utilization and Admitting Practices
Objective: To describe the relationship between emergency department resource utilization and admission rate at the level of the individual physician.
2018 State of Digital Transformation
On June 12-13, 2018, digital ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø welcomed public sector digital services teams from around the world to share stories of success, talk about lessons learned, and discuss the challenges they face in tr
Computer Vision and Real Estate: Do Looks Matter and Do Incentives Determine Looks
How much does the appearance of a house, or its neighbors, impact its price? Do events that impact the incentives facing homeowners, like foreclosure, impact the maintenance and appearance of a home?
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative.
Returning Peer Review to the American Presidential Nomination Process
As Americans, we take for granted that those we entrust with significant authority have been judged by their peers to be competent at the task.
Analytic Confidence and Political Decision Making: Theoretical Principles and Experimental Evidence from National Security Professionals
When making decisions under uncertainty, it is important to distinguish between the probability that a judgment is true and the confidence analysts possess in drawing their conclusions.
How Attribution Inhibits Accountability: Evidence from Train Delays
Do people hold politicians accountable for the performance of government? I test this question using individual-level experiences with the performance of one major public service: transportation.
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