For four years, American policy toward Syria has been built on a wish and a prayer: a wish that President Bashar al-Assad would leave and a…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
After the Soviet Union collapsed, Richard Nixon observed that the United States had won the Cold War, but had not yet won the peace. Since…
After Russian democratic leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in Moscow last weekend, I posed this question at a Harvard Kennedy School…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
The American judiciary has increasingly come under attack as polarized
and politicized. Using a newly collected dataset that captures the…
We investigate the relationship between political networks, weak institutions, and election fraud during the 2010 parliamentary election in…
“It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half-Russian, half-Sudanese professor of Islamic studies, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the nineteenth-…