This paper explores the possibility that governance indicators can be harmonized across three levels (within an individual ministry or…
I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks
and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years
ago, in 1978. Given the furor…
Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations…
While community policing represented a great change in how police officers did their jobs, it is now time for a new model for the 21st…
Little empirical work exists measuring if interagency collaborations delivering public services produce better outcomes, and none looking…
High U.S. incarceration rates have motivated recent research on the negative effects of imprisonment on later employment, earnings, and…
The nation is plagued with one of the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression. Not only have rates of joblessness risen…
Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed…
In this paper Sparrow critiques the claims of the Evidence-Based Policy movement, and Evidence-Based Policing in particular, and urges…