President Obama was smart to change the date of his speech to a joint session of Congress and to do so quickly, but whether he is adopting…
The article reviews the book "The Politics of Medicaid," by Laura Katz Olson.
The field of public opinion is one of the most diverse in political science. Over the last 60 years, scholars have drawn upon the…
After a turbulent and moneyed midterm election season, turn to the new edition of this trusted classic to guide your students through the…
We measure how receiving information about coworkers’ savings behavior affects recipients’ savings choices. Low-saving employees were sent…
Even as the president was signing the debt-limit bill designed to cut spending this week, he insisted on continuing "to keep making key…
Three randomized experiments found that subtle linguistic cues have the power to increase voting and related behavior. The phrasing of…
When making decisions, people sometimes deviate from normative standards. While such deviations may appear to be alarmingly common,…
Whatever late compromise is finally agreed upon in the U.S. debt ceiling debate, the most difficult hurdles for any deficit-reduction…
We study the predictive power of approximately 2.5 million stock picks submitted by individual users to the “CAPS” website run by the…