Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity…
Should political campaigns in close races communicate that they may win (over-confidence) or that they may lose (under-confidence)? In six…
After piling up trillions of dollars of war debt during the last decade, America seemed to be on the brink of a new era -- ready to shut…
The current crisis of democracy has many causes. The one I discuss here is the inability of our democratic institutions -- and our…
This address advances three ideas. First, political science as a discipline has a mandate to help human beings govern themselves. Second,…
Elinor Ostrom did not argue that state action is antithetical to local knowledge and effective organization. She argued, to the contrary,…