Beginning in 2021, state legislators introduced or passed numerous bills intended to shape appropriate content in K–12 social studies…
In Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World, I offer both a conceptual analysis of legitimacy, the power-liability view, and a…
Since the 1990s, neo-institutionalists have posited that "institutions matter". However, they overlook one important issue: the ways…
There is widespread concern that academic freedom is threatened by growing demands for intellectual conformity and attempted censorship…
Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American…
Institutional reforms often diverge from substantive problems and societal demands that originally prompted reform, raising questions about…
Can democratic participation reduce inequalities in citizenship produced by policing? We argue that citizen participation in policing…
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions,…
For too long the federal policymaking process has been mysterious and inaccessible to everyone but the most sophisticated, elite…
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well…