How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
November 2022. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Alex Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at…
A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
The structure of opportunities for citizen activism in democratic or autocratic regime diverge sharply, such as in freedom of expression,…
July 2022. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Archon Fung, the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government…
May 2022. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy…
Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class. This article contributes to this line of research…
Committee formation in early American legislatures happened when those assemblies were inundated with petitions, a relationship unexamined…
Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the Justices from political pressures, but it also…