Many malpractices generate flawed elections which fail to meet international standards of electoral integrity, including issues such as…
Book abstract: How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new…
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…
A rapidly-growing research agenda shared by scholars and applied policy analysts is beginning to explore three questions: when do elections…
This week, I was one of 12 Americans to receive a National Humanities Medal, based in part on research I began more than 40 years ago on…
Professor Burns reflects on recent Supreme Court decisions dealing with voting rights and same-sex marriage.
We marshal discoveries about human behavior and learning from social science research and show how these can be used to improve teaching…