The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We…
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
This article describes some of the challenges of effective governance for sustainability at the subnational level of government.
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions,…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
In her new book, Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall, HLS Assistant Professor of Law Anna…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
In her new book, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Assistant Professor of Public Policy Yanilda…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…