The flaws in the American electoral process have become increasingly apparent in recent years. The contemporary tipping point in public…
How do Americans evaluate potential U.S. Supreme Court candidates? Using a novel, two-part conjoint experiment, I show that respondents put…
I begin by summarizing some of the main features of Buchanan’s account. I argue next that his account gets no support from defeating his…
The Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) is the culmination of your Harvard Kennedy School experience. Many of our MPP graduates consider it to…
As a complement to your MPP core curriculum, you will also focus on a Policy Area of Concentration (PAC) or a Concentration.…
The predominantly sunny end-of-history optimism about democratic progress, evident in the late-1980s and early-1990s following the fall of…
In contrast to previous literature, which looks at the effect of democracy on long-run growth or short-run volatility of growth, we examine…