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…
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…
By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming…
Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability. A large literature on retrospective voting in the United States…
August 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Stephen Ansolabehere, the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard…
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This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of…