Collective vigilantism, group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community, is both global and common in the contemporary world. It…
Nonviolent action (NVA) campaigns are more frequent now than ever before, yet we know comparatively little about how the demographic…
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,…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors…
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…