In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the…
Political polarization in the United States hinders national progress. Consensus, painful as it is when against our respective political…
Book abstract: Over the past two decades there has been great interest in cosmopolitanism across the human and social sciences. Where,…
One purpose of my recent research (with David E. Campbell) on religion in America was to confirm and, if possible, extend previous research…
Book abstract: Even though political philosophy has a long tradition, it is much more than the study of old and great treatises.…
Politicians rely on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to exercise political power. Citizens around the world also use these tools to vent…
Book abstract: In Ports in a Storm, a team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes…
Political arithmetic is always suspect, and one should always examine carefully the claims of those seeking votes. Smart observers have…
The 14 months since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow have not been kind to those who yearn for a free Egypt. A military junta rules, Islamists…