Trust between citizens and the institutions that govern them is essential for effective policy, especially in public health. Across the…
Human Rights Organizations (HROs) often use a criticism tactic, known as shaming, to pressure foreign governments that commit human rights…
Conflict of interest is among the most regulated forms of official behavior. In the United States, the vast bureaucracy of the Office of…
Portland, Oregon recently passed Measure 26-228, which represents some of the most expansive voting reforms by a major American city in…
Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be…
Many demands for democratic inclusion rest on a simple yet powerful idea. It's a principle of affected interests. The principle states that…
This article describes some of the challenges of effective governance for sustainability at the subnational level of government.
The last fifteen years have witnessed a "democratic recession." Democracies previously thought to be well-established--Hungary, Poland,…
Does Alexis de Tocqueville—the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America—still matter? Why should any of us today pay…
Au cours des dernières décennies, un accord de plus en plus large s’est fait, dans la théorie politique et les sciences politiques…