Human societies fashion themselves through rites of memory, gilding and illuminating
some pages of the past while consigning others to…
Were cozy ties between Texas legislators and Halliburton’s corporate predecessor Brown and Root responsible for the passage of the landmark…
What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the…
Political polarization in the United States hinders national progress. Consensus, painful as it is when against our respective political…
Book abstract: Over the past two decades there has been great interest in cosmopolitanism across the human and social sciences. Where,…
One purpose of my recent research (with David E. Campbell) on religion in America was to confirm and, if possible, extend previous research…
Book abstract: Even though political philosophy has a long tradition, it is much more than the study of old and great treatises.…