From late 2010 through 2011, popular uprisings toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. In each country, a key component…
What limits should be placed on the public power to take private property? Ten years ago, when the Supreme Court heard the case of Kelo v.…
During recent years, U.S. states have often diverged by adopting either more lenient or stricter electoral procedures. What have been the…
What has driven the worldwide adoption and subsequent revision of gender quota policies? This study argues that this phenomenon can be best…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
We study whether war service by one generation affects service by the next generation in later wars, in the context of the major US…
This essay analyzes the persistence of the death penalty in the United States--a topic that has long been the subject of debate among legal…
Traditionally, fund flow to local bodies responsible for implementing social programs is based on intended expenditure ratified by higher…
The past two decades have seen a proliferation of large- and small-scale experiments in participatory governance. This article takes stock…
This book brings together two fields that rarely converse with one another: deliberative democracy and development studies. The study of…