Many commentators have made the careful distinction that the United States is a “republic,” not a “democracy.” Drawing on a longstanding…
Historical persistence refers to the idea that historical causes can have effects that persist long into the future. This chapter provides…
Society’s transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway. But substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels to…
Democratic mayors have no effect on crime, but do reduce the Black share of arrests for petty crimes
We examine whether mayors’ partisan affiliations lead to differences in crime rates, arrest rates, and the racial composition of arrests.…
Collective vigilantism, group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community, is both global and common in the contemporary world. It…
We all read him, those of us who did graduate work in U.S. diplomatic history in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For although there were…
Since 2020, the Democracy & Power Innovation Fund (DPI) and our learning partners in organizing, philanthropy, and academia have been…
In the past decade, myriad studies have explored the effects of nonviolent resistance (NR) on outcomes including revolutionary success (…
Nonviolent action (NVA) campaigns are more frequent now than ever before, yet we know comparatively little about how the demographic…
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…