This study evaluates the impact of text messaging interventions on voter registration updates in two scenarios: one involving unresponsive…
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?…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
In June 2021, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the digital transformation consultancy Public Digital…
To move forward on any of the challenges confronting Boston, we have to think about how we are — physically — getting there. Climate change…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the…