Professor Burns reflects on recent Supreme Court decisions dealing with voting rights and same-sex marriage.
We marshal discoveries about human behavior and learning from social science research and show how these can be used to improve teaching…
When rules, taxes, or subsidies prove impractical as policy tools, governments increasingly employ “targeted transparency,” compelling…
Climate change is a complex long-run phenomenon. The speed and severity with which it is occurring is difficult to observe, complicating…
Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and…
A policy experiment in India suggests that placing female leaders in positions of power can dramatically change public attitudes.
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People often hold extreme political attitudes about complex policies. We hypothesized that people typically know less about such policies…
Can independent groups change voters’ beliefs about an incumbent’s positions? And, does reframing how candidates’ are perceived by changing…
When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economists and…