Many groups in the US are focused on preventing the further rise of authoritarian forces by raising alarms about authoritarian power-grabs…
A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating…
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a 5-4 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, holding that…
Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering but they all require either bipartisan…
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Kansas voters opted against overturning a state constitutional right to an abortion on Aug. 2, 2022. A few days later, Indiana lawmakers…
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,…
The last fifteen years have witnessed a "democratic recession." Democracies previously thought to be well-established--Hungary, Poland,…
This impact evaluation investigates whether strengthening the link between local taxation and urban services can revitalize the social…
July 2022. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Archon Fung, the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government…