How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
This article describes some of the challenges of effective governance for sustainability at the subnational level of government.
Policy with concentrated costs often faces intense localized opposition. Both private and governmental actors frequently use financial…
A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating…
Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering but they all require either bipartisan…
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Kansas voters opted against overturning a state constitutional right to an abortion on Aug. 2, 2022. A few days later, Indiana lawmakers…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
The structure of opportunities for citizen activism in democratic or autocratic regime diverge sharply, such as in freedom of expression,…
The last fifteen years have witnessed a "democratic recession." Democracies previously thought to be well-established--Hungary, Poland,…
For too long the federal policymaking process has been mysterious and inaccessible to everyone but the most sophisticated, elite…