Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to…
Despite the growing concern about elections which fail around the world, there has been little systematic understanding of the importance…
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From Aristotle to Acemoglu and Robinson, scholars have argued that democracy possesses powerful redistributive impulses, and imperils…
The current crisis of democracy has many causes. The one I discuss here is the inability of our democratic institutions -- and our…
Will the death penalty ever be abolished in America? Executions, and the states that carry them out, are in decline. Public support for the…
ROCHESTER — RESEARCH has long shown that female judges vote differently from men on issues of sex discrimination, harassment and sentencing…
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the potential of transparency-the provision of information to the public-to…