As a publication, The State of Open Data will address the development of the open data movement over the past 10 years from a multitude of…
This paper examines the linkage between mobilization and elite capture in participatory institutions using a randomized experiment in Kenya…
Despite the growing concern about elections which fail around the world, there has been little systematic understanding of the importance…
Many elections confront challenges in meeting international standards of electoral integrity, including in established democracies such as…
Many malpractices generate flawed elections which fail to meet international standards of electoral integrity, including issues such as…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…
Drawing upon theories of the diffusion of global norms, this study addresses two issues: is there a shared consensus among experts about…
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…