Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
Contrary to popular belief, Democratic presidents have been better for the economy than Republicans.
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONEvery four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane…
Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability. A large literature on retrospective voting in the United States…
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the…