Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the Justices from political pressures, but it also…
Liz McKenna is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø. She is a political sociologist whose research focuses on how civil society…
Legislative leaders tend to be ideologically more extreme than their median members. Why? This paper shows that party members select…
Deval Patrick is a professor of practice and co-director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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To move forward on any of the challenges confronting Boston, we have to think about how we are — physically — getting there. Climate change…
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016…
Are women more likely to quit politics after losing their first race than men? In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, the number of…
Politicians use their communication to present a strategic version of themselves to voters. One component of this is the ideological…
Since the Founding, Supreme Court justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the justices from political pressures, but it also…
The topic of judicial diversity is an important one, and it has only increased in public salience in the last decade. As I will discuss in…