As Yogi Berra once said, “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” Nothing could be truer when it comes to money in American politics. In the…
The "aspirational" ideal in democracy is citizen authorship of the laws. That ideal at its fullest is unachievable even in direct…
After more than a century of expanding the voting rights of previously disenfranchised groups, the American electoral system today is…
Populism studies have rapidly burgeoned but systematic global empirical evidence about this phenomenon has lagged behind. How can party…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it…
What are the consequences of women dying in combat? We study how women fighting on the frontlines of the military affects public attitudes…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…