The Jury Selection Working Group of the Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts has released a new research brief…
The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's The Birth of a Nation,…
Concerns have been raised about the "demise of democracy," possibly accelerated by pandemic-related restrictions. Using a survey experiment…
Concerns have been raised about the “demise of democracy”, possibly accelerated by pandemic-related restrictions. Using a survey experiment…
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
This article describes some of the challenges of effective governance for sustainability at the subnational level of government.
Policy with concentrated costs often faces intense localized opposition. Both private and governmental actors frequently use financial…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
Hélene Landemore’s Open Democracy challenges today’s democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of…