Many groups in the US are focused on preventing the further rise of authoritarian forces by raising alarms about authoritarian power-grabs…
A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating…
The structure of opportunities for citizen activism in democratic or autocratic regime diverge sharply, such as in freedom of expression,…
The last fifteen years have witnessed a "democratic recession." Democracies previously thought to be well-established--Hungary, Poland,…
This impact evaluation investigates whether strengthening the link between local taxation and urban services can revitalize the social…
Governments need rules, institutions, and processes to translate the will of the people into functioning democracies. Election laws are the…
Does Alexis de Tocqueville—the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America—still matter? Why should any of us today pay…
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world appears to be at an inflection point. Business leaders have declared the…
Last week’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the right to an abortion in the US, allowed many Red states to adopt some of the most…
Many may judge that, in the cases of existing compulsory immunization programs and other health-related regulations, the benefits of…