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This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). It is therefore timely to take…
The expansion of large-scale non-discretionary social policy has been one of the most important policy innovations in Latin America in…
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By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming…
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Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability. A large literature on retrospective voting in the United States…
Synopsis: Recent years have seen extensive debate in popular commentary about a pervasive ‘cancel culture’ thought to be taking over…
As our revived national conversation on race has made clear, the legacies of slavery and white supremacy run wide and deep in American…