When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economists and…
We investigate the impact of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on different forms of political participation, using data from Italy. We…
Whatever happened to quiet bravery and dignity?
Public opinion researchers, campaigns, and political scientists often rely on self-predicted vote to measure political engagement, allocate…
It’s Sunday and Harvard and Cambridge have started to recover a sense of normalcy—but not quite.
Yesterday my older son texted me the…
Amid the shock, grief and anger, what can we learn? Nicholas Burns dissects this week's Boston Marathon bombings.
If a friend from Ottawa who was running in the Boston Marathon had been just a few minutes slower, she would have run past when the bomb…
Deciding "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important decisions any government has to make. So it should not be surprising…
Though Egyptian voters clearly evince a desire for Islamic law (however defined), public opinion research shows that they also want robust…
Pursuing the common good in a pluralist democracy is not possible without making compromises. Yet the spirit of compromise is in short…