Local government is not broken, just burdened. The obsolete rules and regulations discussed here make the conceptualization of alternatives…
Professor Mayne talks about his work studying citizen satisfaction and democratic performance.
How can we intervene in the systemic bureaucratic dysfunction that beleaguers the public sector? De Jong examines the roots of this…
Last year, at a global conference on sexual violence during war, many speakers agreed that the best way to deter such crimes was…
Harvard Kennedy School students learn firsthand about the practice of public sector innovation by tackling real problems in Chelsea,…
Tarek Masoud argues that democracy in the Middle East is in decline, and prospects for its arrival look dim.
Missing from most accounts of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns to elect Barack Obama president is the story of how Obama for America organized 2…
In a recent Vox article, political scientists David Brookman and Joshua Kalla provocatively asked why campaigns invest so little in high-…
From policing to transportation, states and municipalities are becoming more adept at leveraging evidence-based policymaking.
From Aristotle to Acemoglu and Robinson, scholars have argued that democracy possesses powerful redistributive impulses, and imperils…