Under federal policies of self-determination through self-government, the 574 federally recognized American Indian nations in the United…
This paper introduces the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
Agricultural land use has recently peaked, both globally and across country income groups, after centuries of expansion and intensification…
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Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability. A large literature on retrospective voting in the United States…
An innovative apprenticeship program is working to bring some of Los Angeles' neediest residents into the city's workforce.
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow John Shattuck.
An authoritarian nationalist regime in Hungary is…