We examine several hypotheses regarding the determinants and implications of political protest, motivated by the wave of popular uprisings in Arab countries starting in late 2010.
Across the country, the interests of organized labor, elected officials and taxpayers are colliding over wages, work rules and the astronomical costs of retiree pensions and health care.
Many senior government leaders who have attempted to achieve ambitious goals have been quite successful, though others (sometimes very visibly) have not succeeded.
This essay is an exploration of the political rise of politician Edward W. Brooke and his impact on the Republican Party and the black community throughout the 1960s.
Nations around the world are considering strategies to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change predicted to occur in the twenty-first century.
The article “LTTE threat to disrupt Harvard discussion on Lanka turns into damp squib”, published on March 6, presented a severely distorted account of the March 1 seminar at the Harvard Kennedy Schoo
We construct the topology of business networks across the population of firms in an emerging economy, Pakistan, and estimate the value that membership in large yet diffuse networks brings in terms of
Fareed Zakaria is one of our most perceptive analysts of America's role in the world, and I generally agree with him.
Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume.
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