Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited
Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis.
Research
The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market
Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments.
Hooray for Nation States
How many times have we heard that the nation state is passé?
How Can Commodity Exporters Make Fiscal and Monetary Policy Less Procyclical?
Fiscal and monetary policy each has a role to play in mitigating the volatility that stems from the large trade shocks hitting commodity-exporting countries.
Politically Feasible Emission Target Formulas to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
A new climate change treaty must plug three gaps: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the absence of participation by the United States, China, and other developing countrie
Democracy in Turkey
In December, I traveled to Turkey with my wife and young son, as we do every year during winter break. This time, though, we had more than visiting family and friends in mind.
Triumph of the City
America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities.
A Lesson From the South for Fiscal Policy in the US and Other Advanced Countries
American fiscal policy has been procyclical: Washington wasted the expansion period 2001-2007 by running budget deficits, but by 2011 had come to feel constrained by inherited debt to withdraw fiscal
The Poverty of Dictatorship
Perhaps the most striking finding in the United Nations' recent 20th anniversary Human Development Report is the outstanding performance of the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
Social Impact Bonds
Current approaches to government funding of social services create significant barriers to innovation.
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